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Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: ix, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. NotesIncludes bibliographical references and index. Translated into English. Contents: ch. 1. "A shameful vice which decimates youth" -- ch. 2. Before the fear -- ch. 3. Onania -- ch. 4. Onania's influence -- ch. 5. Tissot -- ch. 6. Tissot's triumph -- ch. 7. An obsession of the Western world -- ch. 8. The faith starts to be shaken -- ch. 9. Tradition holds on -- ch. 10. Reflux into disorder. Subjects: Masturbation History; Masturbation Moral and ethical aspects History; Ethics history; Morals; Masturbation; Masturbation Moral and ethical aspects; Sex history. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 408397
Bibliographic Details
Title: Masturbation : the history of a great terror...
Publisher: New York : Palgrave
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is a funny and frightening look at the attitudes towards masturbation throughout history and how they have affected the sex lives of anyone living and breathing today. The French biologist, Tissot, was the original spoil-sport who turned masturbation into the scourge of young men everywhere. Saying that a little self-induced pleasure caused wasting, insanity, and finally death, Tissot put the clamps (literally, in some cases) on the greatest relaxation inducer known to humankind. From Tissot's work to the punitive postures of the German courts to the surgical preventatives of continental Europe and England to the handbook of the Boy Scouts of America, spanking/wanking, yanking/choking, and other assorted diddling became the big no-no. Stengers and Van Neck give us the whole story and it isn't pretty, but it will fascinate everyone who agrees with Woody Allen when he said "Hey, don't knock masturbation! It's sex with someone I love."
Jean Stengers is Professor of History at the University of Brussels.
The late Anne Van Neck was a Master of Research at the University's Institute of History.
Kathryn Hoffmann, University of Hawaii, is the author of Society of Pleasures.
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