Book review: The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex. By Julie Peakman (London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 472 pp. £25.00).

[p.1]: "This book sets the notion of sexual “perversion” into historical context for a general audience by examining “the gamut of sexual activity that has been considered strange, abnormal or deviant over the last 2,000 years” in the West (7). By investi- gating how and “why people were—and remain—intolerant of other people’s sexual preferences,” Peakman seeks to look beyond recent taxonomies of sexual desire to find “sexual ‘perversion’ before it was ‘discovered’” in the nineteenth century and “trace its development” (8, 12)."