De bundel bevat de volgende bijdragen: Humanism, politics and pornography in Renaissance Italy / door Paula Findlen; The politics of pornography : L'école des filles / door Joan DeJean; Sometimes a scepter is only a scepter : pornography and politics in Restoration England / door Rachel Weil; The materialist world of pornography / door Margaret C. Jacob; Truth and the obscene word in Eighteenth-century French pornography / door Lucienne Frappier-Mazur; The libertine whore : prostitution in French pornography from Margot to Juliette / door Kathryn Norberg; Erotic fantasy and male libertinism in Enlightenment England / door Randolph Trumbach; Politics and pornography in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / door Wijnand W. Mijnhardt; Pornography and the French Revolution / door Lynn Hunt.