Los saberes sexuales

Sexual knowledge is understood as the ideas, conceptual frameworks and knowledge that have been formulated over time about sex and sexuality. The analysis of the first cultures and classical cultures shows both the diversity of sexual behavior and the complexity of its forms. This book exposes the development of sexual knowledge throughout history, from its beginnings to the present. Following the thread of the different times, sexual beliefs and knowledge are presented, paying special attention to the formation of ideas in the 19th and 20th centuries and current developments. Special attention is paid to the influence that Christianity of the first centuries has had in the formation of Western sexuality. It shows how throughout the entire historical process, sexuality is configured not only by knowledge and beliefs, but also by the forms that eroticism has been developing at each moment. It is evident how the Enlightenment and Romanticism gave rise to marked changes that supposed new mentalities such as the appearance of the right to pleasure, libertine sexuality and emotional forms of sexual experience. Later, with the irruption of modernity, industrialization and economic and social changes, bourgeois society emerges, which makes sexuality a private and conventional conduct that leads to sexual Victorianism, at the same time that it provokes the appearance of psychiatry. sexual, the study of perversions and also the beginnings of sexology as a scientific discipline. Recent developments raise the current issues of sexual diversity, the formation of sexual science, the development of activist movements and policies, and the processes of sexual globalization.