Ancient sexology

What is sexually
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[Women who have sex with women: their sexual biography, reproductive health and experience with violence]

Objective: To compare sociodemographic characteristics, sexual and reproductive biographies and experience of violence according to the fact that women have or have not had homosexual relationship.

Patients and methods: From the national survey on violence against women in France carried out in 2000 by phone, two groups have been compared: 78 women who have had at least one woman sexual partner and 6332 women who have had only male partners during lifetime.

Results: Women who have had sexual relationships with women more often have high level social positions and live in large cities. They have a more diverse sexual life that they begin younger and more partners, mainly men. They use contraception less often. They have more sexually transmitted infections and are more often tested for HIV. They visit gynaecologists as often as other women. They are more often victims of violence, especially physical violence as adults.

Discussion and conclusion: These

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The History of Sexuality

Four-volume book by Michel Foucault

For the history article, see History of human sexuality. For the documentary TV series, see The History of Sex.

Cover of the first edition of volume 1
Author	Michel Foucault
Original title	Histoire de la sexualité
Translator	Robert Hurley
Language	French
Subject	History of human sexuality
Publisher	Éditions Gallimard
Publication date	1976 (vol. 1) 1984 (vol. 2) 1984 (vol. 3) 2018 (vol. 4)
Publication place	France
Published in English	1978 (vol. 1) 1985 (vol. 2) 1986 (vol. 3) 2021 (vol. 4)^[1]
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback), Audio (Vol 1-3)
Pages	168 (English ed., vol. 1) 293 (English ed., vol. 2) 279 (English ed., vol. 3) 416 (English ed., vol. 4)
ISBN	0-14-012474-8 (vol. 1) 0-14-013734-5 (vol. 2) 0-14-013735-1 (vol. 3) 978-1-52-474803-6 (vol. 4)

The History of Sexuality (French: L'Histoire de la sexualité) is a four-volume study of sexuality in the Western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Fo

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History of human sexuality

For the Michel Foucault volume, see The History of Sexuality. For a documentary TV series, see The History of Sex.

The human sexuality and sexual behavior—along with its taboos, regulation, and social and political impact—has had a profound effect on the various cultures of the world since prehistoric times.

The study of the history of human sexuality

The work of Swiss jurist Johann Bachofen made a major impact on the study of the history of sexuality. Many authors, notably Lewis Henry Morgan and Friedrich Engels, were influenced by Bachofen, and criticized Bachofen's ideas on the subject, which were almost entirely drawn from a close reading of ancient mythology. In his 1861 book Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World Bachofen writes that in the beginning human sexuality was chaotic and promiscuous.

This "aphroditic" stage was replaced by a matriarchal "demeteric" stage, which resulted from the mother being the only reliable way of establishing descendants. Only upo