'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of BooksThesecond volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changingnature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived in classical Greekculture.From the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice onthe healthiest season for sex, as well as exercise and diet) to therole of women, The Use of Pleasure is full of extraordinaryinsights into the differences - and the continuities - between theAncient, Christian and Modern worlds, showing how sex became a moralissue in the west.'Required reading for those who cling tostereotyped ideas about our difference from the Greeks in terms of paganlicense versus Christian austerity' Los Angeles Times Book Review