TY - BOOK AU - Steintrager,James A. TI - The autonomy of pleasure: libertines, license, and sexual revolution T2 - Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts SN - 978-0-231-15158-0 U1 - 306.70944 23E PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Sex customs--France--History--18th century KW - France--Moral conditions N1 - Notes bibliogr; Acknowledgments -- Introduction: whose sexual revolution? -- A thousand modes of venery : coital positions as actions and communications -- Voluptuary architecture : organizing, policing, and producing pleasure -- Sodomy and reason : making sense of the libertine preference -- "The obscene organ of brute pleasure" : social functions of the clitoris -- The fury of her kindness : what should a libertine know about orgasm? -- Color and caprice: the politics and aesthetics of interracial relations -- Canonizing Sade : eros, democracy, and differentiation -- Notes -- Index ER -