Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Figuring Early Modern Sex Will Stockton and James M. Bromley 1. "Invisible Sex!": What Looks Like the Act in Early Modern Drama? Christine Varnado 2. Death and Theory: Or, the Problem of Counterfactual Sex Kathryn Schwarz 3. Spectacular Impotence: Or, Things that Hardly Ever Happen in the Critical History of Pornography Melissa J. Jones 4. "Unmanly Passion": Sodomitical Self-Fashioning in John Ford's The Lover's Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck Nicholas F. Radel 5. The Erotics of Chin-chucking in Seventeenth-Century England Will Fisher 6. Rimming the Renaissance James M. Bromley 7. Animal, Vegetable, Sexual: Metaphor in John Donne's "Sappho to Philaenis" and Andrew Marvell's "The Garden" Stephen Guy-Bray 8. Aping Rape: Animal Ravishment and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern England Holly Dugan 9. The Seduction of Milton's Lady: Rape, Psychoanalysis, and the Erotics of Consumption in "Comus" Will Stockton 10 "How human life began": Sexual Reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost Thomas H. Luxon Afterword Valerie Traub Contributors Index