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.,."rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study." --"Publishers Weekly,,"."a good read." --"Library Journal,,"."required reading..." --"Playboy,,"."genius..." --"Flaunt Magazine""Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's "Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror "is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change." --Merry Wiesner-Hanks
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A funny and frightening history of attitudes towards masturbation and how they have affected the sex lives of pretty much everyone living and breathing today. From the French biologist, Tissot, the original spoll-sport who turned masturbation into the scourge of young men everywhere, to the punitive German courts, to the surgical preventatives of continental Europe and England (don't ask!), to the Boy Scouts of America. It's all here, it isn't pretty but it's certainly fascinating. Includes 14 pages of illustrations!
.,."rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study." --"Publishers Weekly,,"."a good read." --"Library Journal,,"."required reading..." --"Playboy,,"."genius..." --"Flaunt Magazine""Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's "Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror "is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change." --Merry Wiesner-Hanks
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A funny and frightening history of attitudes towards masturbation and how they have affected the sex lives of pretty much everyone living and breathing today. From the French biologist, Tissot, the original spoll-sport who turned masturbation into the scourge of young men everywhere, to the punitive German courts, to the surgical preventatives of continental Europe and England (don't ask!), to the Boy Scouts of America. It's all here, it isn't pretty but it's certainly fascinating. Includes 14 pages of illustrations!
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