How Sex Got Screwed Up: The Ghosts That Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure is a remarkable achievement: an engaging and readable masterpiece about the history of sexuality. It covers a lot of ground beginning with the Stone Age to Victoria to Our Own Time, exploring sexual myths and laws from sources including anthropology, sociology, and philosophy, to reveal the tyranny of religion and politics. Knowles is a gifted storyteller with the unique ability to bring the reader along on his journey “to better understand what makes us so uncomfortable about sex.”
Carol Cassell Ph.D.
Former president, The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and health scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
How Sex Got Screwed Up
is a tremendous gift to our sexual health.
The book is huge. . . . Jon did a fantastic job
of condensing a vast world history into an easy-to-read and succinct outline. I have a lot respect for the way he simplified a story that runs the course of more than 12 millennia . . . . For while it is true that none of us invented sex, it is also true that we did not invent most of our own hassles with it. We inherited most of them. How Sex Got Screwed Up helps us see this more clearly.
Beverly Whipple, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, Rutgers University
Past-Vice president and Secretary General/Treasurer,
World Association for Sexual Health;
Past-president, Society
for the Scientific Study of Sexuality