The History of Sexuality Volume 3: The Care of the Self
Author: Michel Foucault
Desc: Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era into the Golden Age of Rome to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch Epictetus Marcus Aurelius Seneca) and physicians of the era and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences.