Introduction: Figuring early modern sex / Will Stockton and James M. Bromley
"Invisible sex!": What looks like the act in early modern drama? / Christine Varnado
Death and theory: Or, the problem of counterfactual sex / Kathryn Schwarz
Spectacular impotence: Or, things that hardly ever happen in the critical history of pornography / Melissa J. Jones
"Unmanly passion": Sodomitical self-fashioning in John Ford's The Lover's Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck / Nicholas F. Radel
The erotics of chin-chucking in seventeenth-century England / Will Fisher
Rimming the Renaissance / James M. Bromley
Animal, vegetable, sexual: Metaphor in John Donne's "Sappho to Philaenis" and Andrew Marvell's "The garden" / Stephen Guy-Bray
Aping rape: Animal ravishment and sexual knowledge in early modern England / Holly Dugan
The seduction of Milton's lady: Rape, psychoanalysis, and the erotics of consumption in "Comus" / Will Stockton
"How human life began": Sexual reproduction in Book 8 of Paradise Lost / Thomas H. Luxon
Afterword / Valerie Traub.