This document provides background information and discussion prompts for a course on the history of sexuality. It lists several recommended readings from the week's chapters and discusses several important figures mentioned in those readings, including John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Rev. Michael Wigglesworth, and Thomas Morton, who founded the non-Puritan settlement of Merry Mount. Students are asked to discuss something interesting they learned from one of the readings, citing specific pages, and are given the option to write a short description of a figure like Rochester, Wigglesworth, or Morton to share in the class discussion.