Gert Hekma is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His research is on the sociology and history of homo/sexuality. He wrote numerous articles and edited many books on those subjects, most recently A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Modern Age (2011).

Alain Giami is Research Professor at Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France where he coordinates a multi-disciplinary group of researchers in the field of sexuality and social sciences. He has been working and writing for thirty years on relations between sexuality, medicine and health in a social context, and wrote many articles and edited books on those subjects in France and Brazil.

1. Sexual Revolutions: An Introduction; Gert Hekma and Alain Giami 2. Sexual Liberalism in Sweden; Lena Lennerhed 3. The Long Sexual Revolution: The Police and the New Gay Man; Peter Edelberg 4. A Radical Break with a Puritanical Past: The Dutch Case; Gert Hekma 5. Catholics and Sexual Change in Flanders; Wannes Dupont 6. The Long History of the 'Sexual Revolution' in West Germany; Franz Eder 7. Sexual Revolution(s) in Britain; Matt Cook 8. The Revival of Sexuality Studies in France in the Late 1950s; Sylvie Chaperon 9. Therapies of Sexual Liberation in France: Society, Sex and Self; Alain Giami 10. The Ambivalent Sexual Emancipation of Daniel Guérin; Rostom Mesli 11. The Gay Liberation Movement in France; Michael Sibalis 12. Pornography, Perversity and the Sexual Revolution; Jeffrey Escoffier 13. 'Sex Freedom Girls Speak Out': Women in Sexual Revolution; Massimo Perinelli 14. The Sexual Revolution in the USSR: Dynamics Beneath the Ice; Dan Healey 15. Abortion, Christianity, Disability: Western Europe; Dagmar Herzog 16. Paedophilia, Homosexuality and Gay and Lesbian Activism; David Paternotte

Sexual Revolutions explores the sexual revolution of the late twentieth century in several European countries and the USA by engaging with themes from sexual freedom and abortion to pornography and sexual variation. This work discusses the involvement of youth, feminism, left, liberalism, arts, science and religion in the process of sexual change.