Sexuality and the historian -- 'That damned morality': Sex in Victorian ideology -- The sacramental family: middle-class men, women, and children -- Sexuality and the labouring classes -- The public and the private: Moral regulation in the Victorian period -- The construction of homosexuality -- The population question in the early twentieth century -- The theorization of sex -- Feminism and Socialism -- Sex psychology and birth control -- Beliefs and behavior 1914-39 -- The state of sexuality -- The permissive moment -- Currents and counter-currents