| Foreword: Using Documenting Intimate Matters | p. xi |
| John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Marital and Reproductive Matrix, 1600-1800 | p. 5 |
| Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641) | p. 7 |
| Jane Sharp, The Midwife's Book (1671) | p. 9 |
| Anne Bradstreet, "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (1678) | p. 10 |
| Witchcraft Trial of Catherina Lujan, New Mexico (1708) | p. 11 |
| John Lawson on Native American Women, North Carolina (1709) | p. 14 |
| Diary of William Byrd, Virginia Planter (1710-1712) | p. 19 |
| Unchast Practices (1716) | p. 22 |
| Chassin to Father Bobe, Louisiana (1722) | p. 23 |
| The Boston News-Letter on "Sodomitical Clubs" (1726) | p. 25 |
| Slander and Reputation in North Carolina Court Cases (1747, 1749) | p. 26 |
| John Smith, Quaker, Courts Hannah Logan (1748) | p. 28 |
| Keeping a House of Fornication (1754) | p. 31 |
| Life and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man (1768) | p. 33 |
| Depositions in the case of Sarah Muckamugg, Rhode Island (1752-1774) | p. 37 |
| Divided Passions, 1780-1900 | p. 39 |
| Documenting Philadelphia Women's Self-Divorce in the Pennsylvania Gazette and Packet (1780S-1790S) | p. 41 |
| Sylvester Graham, Lecture to Young Men (1838) | p. 43 |
| Louisa Picquet, interviewed by H. Mattison, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon; or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (1840s) | p. 45 |
| Abraham Lincoln's correspondence with Joshua Speed (1842) | p. 50 |
| New York Sporting Whip (1843) | p. 54 |
| "The Lynching of a Mexican Woman in California" (1851) | p. 55 |
| "Indian Concubines" the National Era (1858) | p. 57 |
| Willie Ann Grey, Letter to Her Husband (1866) | p. 58 |
| Civil War Love Letter (1864) | p. 60 |
| Horatio R. Storer, Criminal Abortion (1868) | p. 62 |
| John Humphrey Noyes, Male Continence (1872) | p. 65 |
| Diary of Frederick Ryman (1884) | p. 69 |
| Women's Social Purity Meeting (1888) | p. 72 |
| Anthony Comstock, Traps for the Young (1883) | p. 75 |
| Toward a New Sexual Order, 1880-1930 | p. 77 |
| Nicholas F. Cooke, Satan in Society (1890) | p. 79 |
| Dr. Clelia Mosher, Mosher Survey (1892) | p. 82 |
| Alice B. Stockham, Tokology (1898) | p. 87 |
| Ida B. Wells, Red Record (1895) | p. 91 |
| W. E. B. DuBois, Philadelphia Negro (1899) | p. 95 |
| Jane Addams, Spirit of Youth (1909) | p. 97 |
| Mexican American Ballads (corridos) | p. 100 |
| Pacific Northwest Male Prostitution | p. Truancy (1913) |
| George J. Kneeland, Commercialized Prostitution in New York City (1913) | p. 104 |
| Robert A. Woods and Albert J. Kennedy, Young Working Girls (1913) | p. 108 |
| O. Edward Janney, White Slave Traffic (1911) | p. 112 |
| Louis L. Krauss, "Humanity"; or, What Every Father, Mother, Boy and Girl Should Know (1915) | p. 116 |
| William J. Robinson, Sex Knowledge for Women and Girls (1917) | p. 120 |
| Mary Ware Dennett, Birth Control Laws: Shall We Keep Them or Abolish Them? (1926) | p. 124 |
| The Rise and Fall of Sexual Liberalism, 1920-1980 | p. 127 |
| Bernarr Macfadden, "Mad Pleasure," in True Romances (1924) | p. 129 |
| Bessie Smith, "Kitchen Man" (1929) | p. 131 |
| United States Motion Picture Production Code (1930) | p. 133 |
| World War II War Department Pamphlet on Venereal Disease (1940) | p. 138 |
| St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945) | p. 140 |
| Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts (1950) | p. 144 |
| Letters to Alfred Kinsey (1953) | p. 148 |
| Letter to the Society for Humane Abortion (1966) | p. 150 |
| Mattachine Society-Stonewall Rebellion (1969) | p. 152 |
| Toni Cade, "The Pill: Genocide or Liberation?" (1969) | p. 155 |
| Anne Koedt, "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" (1970) | p. 157 |
| Barbara Mehrhof and Pamela Kearon, "Rape: An Act of Terror" (1971) | p. 166 |
| Transvestite and Transsexual Liberation (1971) | p. 172 |
| Beverly Padilla, "Chicanas and Abortion" (1972) | p. 174 |
| Alex Comfort, Joy of Sex (1972) | p. 176 |
| The Contemporary Era: Continuity, Change, and Conflict | p. 181 |
| Melvin Boozer, Address to Democratic National Convention -(1980) | p. 183 |
| Larry Kramer, "I Can't Believe You Want to Die" (1987) | p. 186 |
| Laura Alexander, "A Change of Heart" (1987) | p. 189 |
| Pornography and Civil Rights (1988) | p. 191 |
| Carla Trujillo, "Chicana Lesbians: Fear and Loathing in the Chicano Community" (1991) | p. 197 |
| "African American Women in Defense of Ourselves" (1991) | p. 200 |
| "Date Rape" Rape Zine (1990s) | p. 202 |
| Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (1996) | p. 204 |
| Starr Report (1998) | p. 206 |
| Lil' Kim, "How Many Licks?" (2000) | p. 210 |
| Susan Fitzmaurice, "Adventures in Child-Rearing: The Sexual Life of a Child Growing Up with Down Syndrome" (2002) | p. 213 |
| Lawrence v. Texas (2003) | p. 216 |
| "Congressional Report on Abstinence-Only Education" (2004) | p. 221 |
| Federal Marriage Amendment (2006) | p. 224 |
| "Sexual Offenders Team Checks Sex Offenders' Homes" (2007) | p. 225 |
| Sources for Documents | p. 227 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 231 |
| Permission Acknowledgments | p. 233 |
| Index | p. 235 |
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