A wealth of insights, original conceptualizations and provocative ideas
- Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph
A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that 'in the beginning' sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism
- Jasper Griffin, Spectator
Foucault is at his polemical best. He brilliantly succeeds in turning commonplaces on their heads
- Hayden White, The Times Literary Supplement