...This book investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close...

...During the reign of Tsar Alexander III, chancellery officials demonstrated an almost obsessive concern with the sexual behavior of wives. Although officials were exceedingly cautious in their judgments, once they decided that a woman was sexually “immoral,” they treated her as irredeemable...

..., and support sexual behaviors and fantasies is presented....