The essays in this volume address sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were for one reason or another outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability: most notably, unwed heterosexual domesticity, masturbation, prostitution, libertinism, homosexuality, and pornography. The contributors, drawn from England, France, Italy, Holland, and the United States, illustrate the range of unauthorized sexual expression during the Enlightenment. The essays take an important first step toward integrating sexuality into our general understanding of eighteenth-century culture.

1. Introduction Robert P. Maccubbin
2. 'The secrets of generation display'd': Aristotle's masterpiece in eighteenth-century England Roy Porter
3. Sexual imagination as revealed in the Traite des superstitions of Abbe Jean-Baptiste Theirs Jean Marie Goulemot, translated by Odile Wagner and Arthur Greenspan
4. Married but not churched: plebeian sexual relations and marital nonconformity in eighteenth-century Britain John R. Gillis
5. Moral values in 'la suite de l'entretien' Theodore Tarczylo, translated by James Coke and Michael Murray
6. Prostitution and reform in eighteenth-century England Vern L. Bullough
7. The properties of libertinism James G. Turner
8. Between the licit and the illicit: the sexuality of the king Jean-Pierre Guicciardi, translated by Michael Murray
9. The sublimations of a fetishist: restif de la bretonne (1734-1806) David Coward
10. Sodomitical subcultures, sodomitical roles, and the gender revolution of the eighteenth century: the recent historiography Randolph Trumbach
11. The priest, the philosopher, and the homosexuality in enlightenment France Michael Delon, translated by Nelly Stephane
12. The pursuit of homosexuality in the eighteenth century: 'utterly confused category' and/or rich repository? G. S. Rousseau
13. Sodomy in the Dutch Depublic during the eighteenth century Arend H. Hudson, Jr.
14. Parisian homosexuals create a lifestyle, 1700-1750: the police archives Michel Rey, translated by Robert A. Day and Robert Welsh
15. The censor censured: expurgating Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Peter Sabor
16. Chathonic and pelagic metaphorization in eighteenth-century English erotica Paul-Gabriel Bouce
17. Modes of discourse and the language of sexual reference in eighteenth-century French fiction Robert J. Ellrich
18. The Melange de poesies diverses (1781) and the diffusion of manuscript pornography in eighteenth-century France Robert L. Dawson
19. Obscence literature in eighteenth-century Italy: an historical and bibliographical note Armando Marchi, translated by James Coke and David Marsh.