Written in the Flesh

by Edward Shorter, Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry Edward Shorter

2005 · University of Toronto Press

Presents a history of sexual desire - a provocative chronicle of the changing nature of what people yearn to do sexually. This work demonstrates that desire is hardwired into the brain, expressing itself in remarkably similar ways in men and women, adolescent and adult, and in gays, lesbians, and straights alike.