The Virgin Phoenix: Virginity: from Mythology to the Present (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781492932178)

The author is a retired solicitor who lives in Hertfordshire with his first (and only) wife. He has three children and six grandchildren, which might just be enough. This is not his first work. He has also had published in 1995 'The Comfort of Sin: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the 90's' (ISBN 1-898823-10-3) where he argues for the full decriminalisation of prostitution and the establishment of licensed, supervised and medically controlled brothels. He maintains that such a solution, if it doesn't eliminate, would noticeably reduce the amount of violence against women and children and the presence of the sexual excrement on our streets and in our society. Richard Goodall also had published in 2000 'The Divorce Dilemma' (ISBN 1-898823-45-6), a study of marital incompatibility. He has also written, published by Amazon (ISBN 9781484933596) 'The English and Sex or The Shadow of Hypocrisy', where he reviews English sexual trends from the 17th Century to the first decade of the third millennium, citing the most recent statistical data.