📚 Sex Customs

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with sex customs on their catalogue record, first published between 1830 and 2010, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject sex customs in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 4,397 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Mémoires	Giacomo Casanova	1830	104
The joy of sex	Alex Comfort	1972	38
Understanding human sexuality	Janet Shibley Hyde	1979	26
Weltgeschichte der Sexualität	Richard Lewinsohn	1957	24
Forbidden Flowers	Nancy Friday	1975	24
Histoire de la sexualité	Michel Foucault	1976	23
Why Is Sex Fun?	Jared Diamond	1997	23
The new joy of sex	Alex Comfort	1991	15
Greek philosophy	John Burnet	1914	14
Histoire de la sexualité	Michel Foucault	1978	14
Love in Ancient Greece	Robert Flacelière	1962	9
The tao of love and sex	Jolan Chang	1977	9
Thy neighbor's wife	Gay Talese	1980	9
Everything you always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask	David R. Reuben	1969	8
Intercourse	Andrea Dworkin	1987	8
The encyclopedia of unusual sex practices	Brenda Love	1992	8
Public sex	Patrick Califia	1994	8
Sex	Harry Maurer	1994	8
Sex tips from a dominatrix	Patricia Payne	1999	8
Sex at Dawn	Christopher Ryan	2010	8
The jewel in the lotus	Allen Edwardes	1959	7
Love in action	Fernando Henriques	1959	7
The Ethical Slut	Dossie Easton	1997	7
Thy Neighbor's Wife	Gay Talese	1980	6
Letters To Penthouse XXVII	Penthouse Magazine Editors	2006	6
A history of orgies	Burgo Partridge	1958	5
Penthouse Letters	Edward Springer	1976	5
Anal pleasure & health	Jack Morin	1981	5
Sex	Stefan Bechtel	1996	5
Our Sexuality	Robert Crooks	1996	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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