Discusses the history of sexuality in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century and also the way it is studied.

Introduction: History and sexuality/sexuality and history -- The practice of sexual history -- An uncommon project: The discipline problem reconsidered -- Genealogy inside and out -- Practicing sexual history -- Topsy-turvydom: Gender, sexuality, and the problem of categorization -- "We cannot use that word": On the habits of naming, name calling and self-naming -- Normal soap and elastic hymens: Historicizing the modern norms of sexuality.