The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America Julie Nicholson aesthetics and philosophy

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The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America Julie Nicholson aesthetics and philosophyIf sexology'the science of sex'came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make meaning out of sex before that point? In The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, Greta LaFleur demonstrates that eighteenth century natural history'the study of organic life in its environment'actually provided the intellectual foundations for the later development of the scientific study of sex.