Introduction
Three images of primitive sexuality and the definition of species
Sex and the refuge for destitute truth
Matriarchy, marriage by capture, and other fantasies
The reconstruction of "primitive sexuality" at the Fin de Siècle
"Old Africa hands"
Malinowski as "reluctant sexologist"
Margaret Mead, the future of language, and lost opportunities
The "silence"
Sex in contemporary anthropology
Conclusions and unfinished business.