A classic republished.(Sex and Sex Worship)(Book review)

From: The Journal of Sex Research | Date: August 1, 2006| Author: Bullough, Vern L. | Copyright information

Sex and Sex Worship. By O.A. Wall. London: Kegan Paul, 2006, 607 pages. Cloth, $255.

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the publisher Kegan Paul issued a series of pioneering books dealing with sexuality. Among the 12 were ground-breaking titles such as Sexual Life in Ancient Greece, Sexual Life in Ancient Rome, and the book reviewed here, Sex and Sex Worship (which was originally published in 1919). Although the books in the series were ground-breaking, ...

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