Here is a book that demonstrates the endless, amazing variety in what is said to be the most constant activity of man. This book traces sex not only as such, but in all areas bordering on it: in art, social structure, law, medicine, superstition and customs, even in historical changes. From time immemorial, what man has done and thought , at one time or another when you indulged in sex? In Babylon, he offered his women to the gods as temple prostitutes. Incestuous marriage was mandatory for the pharaohs of Egypt. Man respected both asceticism and the most extreme forms of sexual curiosity, and both of these elements were included in his religions. He punished the breaking of marriage vows with death and even went through periods when it was considered ridiculous, if not actually reckless, to love only your spouse. Levinson's point of view is that of an interested viewer. Sex doesn't have to be boring to be respectable, and this account—full, documented, historical, and spectacular—is written with verve, wit, and tolerance. Nothing human is alien to the author - and it seems that nothing feasible is alien to the human race.