Stories
- In pictures
Smoking and the pleasure principle
Cigarettes gifted ex-smoker David Jesudason coughing, wheezing and fatigue, yet they also gave him pleasure. Here he unpicks his fluctuating attitudes towards lighting up.
- Article
Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
- Article
There’s more to gingerbread than ginger
‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.
- Podcast
Joy
Bidisha explores joy, from the psychology of our earliest laughs to collective and solitary pleasures like comedy, food and performance.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Pleasure: a satire.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]- Ephemera
Pleasure bound.
Date: [1992]- Archives and manuscripts
'Pleasure-pain principle'
Date: c. 1930sReference: PP/BOW/D.2/46/10Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Videos
Pleasure and pain with Michael Mosley.
Date: 2011- Books
Pleasure : a history / edited by Lisa Shapiro.
Date: [2018]