Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century

xi, 363 pp. Shows the details of sexual sublimation among the Shakers, the intricacies of 'complex marriage' and coitus reservatus among the Oneida Perfectionists, and the virtually unfathomable complexity of Joseph Smith's early ideas and trials at plural marriage in Nauvoo. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index follow text.