Discusses current frameworks of sexual discourse - which the author sees as metaphor, myth and rhetoric - and considers why explicit sex talk is so difficult. The various rhetorics of sin, vice and crime, psychoanalysis, sexology, sociology, sexual politics, love and romance are also analyzed.
Discusses current frameworks of sexual discourse - which the author sees as metaphor, myth and rhetoric - and considers why explicit sex talk is so di...
In 1997 it will be thirty years since the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 made sex between two men aged over 21 in private no longer a crime. It also marks the seventieth birthday of Antony Grey, who was one of the leading campaigners for homosexual law reform in the 1960s. The articles and talks reprinted in this book (together with others published here for the first time) cover the whole span of Grey's campaigning life, ranging from his first, anonymous, letter to the press about homosexuality written in 1954 to his thoughts on present-day sexual politics in the 1990s. Topics covered include...
In 1997 it will be thirty years since the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 made sex between two men aged over 21 in private no longer a crime. It also mark...
In 1967, after a ten-year campaign, the laws which treated all homosexual acts between males as crimes in England and Wales were altered to permit such behavior between two consenting men aged over twenty-one in private. This title tells the inside story of the battle for the Wolfenden reforms, told by one of its main protagonists.
In 1967, after a ten-year campaign, the laws which treated all homosexual acts between males as crimes in England and Wales were altered to permit suc...
