A wonderfully quirky social history of modern Britain
H. G. Cocks is a lecturer in History at Nottingham University. He is the author of Nameless Offences (Tauris, 2003), a history of Victorian homosexuality, and (with Matt Houlbrook) editor of The Modern History of Sexuality (Palgrave, 2005).
a fascinating portrait of changing social mores, from Thirties
pornography and Seventies wife-swapping through to modern internet
dating
*Mail on Sunday*
This trawl through the passions and peculiarities of the lonely and
desperate is fascinating and surprisingly moving in its
humanity
*Waterstones Books Quarterly*
A lively, surprising, sometimes saucy story
*The Times*
An interesting, topical and anecdotal journey through the years
*Gay Times*
Packed with fascinating social history ... compelling and
informative
*Scarlet*
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