The ring of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry

Marriage rings (and adultery rings)

The ring fished from the ocean

Shakuntala and the ring of memory

Rings of forgetfulness in medieval European romances

Siegfried's ring and Wagner's ring

Pregnant riddles and clever wives

The rape of the clever wife

The affair of the diamond necklace

The slut assumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Are diamonds a woman's best friend?

Two conclusions, on money and myth.