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The enlightenment as genesis of 18th-century masturbation degeneracy hysteria.(Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation)(Book Review)
The Journal of Sex Research
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August 1, 2004|
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Solitary Sex." A Cultural History of Masturbation. By Thomas W. Laqueur. New York: Zone Books, 2003, 496 pages. Cloth, $34.00.
Why did social hysteria about masturbation appear so dramatically in Europe at the beginning of the 18th-century? Thomas W. Laqueur examines the history of masturbation in search of the answer to this question in Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. Scholars researching the history of masturbation in the West usually point to the early 18th-century anonymous publication of Onania: or the Heinous Sin of Self Pollution, and all its Frightful ...
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Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.(Review Essay)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...of Wanking: Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. By Thomas Laqueur...501pp.). In Solitary Sex Thomas Laqueur...anxiety over masturbation which gripped...misleading sub-title, Solitary Sex is not really a history of masturbation at all, ...
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Review essay: a post-modernist theory of wanking: Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.(Abstracts)(Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...Review Essay: A Post-Modernist Theory of Wanking: Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. By Thomas Laqueur (New York: Zone Books, 2003. 501pp.). In Solitary Sex Thomas Laqueur aims to provide a comprehensive explanation for the anxiety (both medical and moral) over ...
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The decloseting of masturbation?(The Joy of Self-Pleasuring: Why Feel Guilty About Feeling Good?)(Masturbation as Means of Achieving Sexual Health)(Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Sex Research
; ...Prometheus, 2000, 226 pages. Paper, $19.00. Masturbation as Means of Achieving Sexual Health...Haworth, 2002, 147 pages. Paper, $17.95. Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror. By...Hardcover, $24.95. Freud wrote much about masturbation, perhaps most quotably in his wrap...
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Hands down! The best darn book on masturbation.(The Big Book of Masturbation from Angst to Zeal)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Sex Research
; The Big Book of Masturbation from Angst to Zeal, by Martha Cornog...Paper, $22.00. The Big Book of Masturbation from Angst to Zeal is an interesting...Language: Meanings and Words for Masturbation, has a very humorous and detailed...
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Masturbation: 100 years ago and now.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Sex Research
; ...it might not always be conscious, that masturbation is not the cause of neurosis, that it owes...specific fantasies, and that when and if masturbation is given up, the will to live is itself...that the mental and physical dangers of masturbation exist only in the imagination of ignorant...love life ...
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Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.(zone books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Afterimage
; now in paperback Solitary Sex A Cultural History of Masturbation Thomas W. Laqueur Laqueur's courageous cultural history (and it took courage, even now, to write this book) makes it abundantly clear why ... the celebration of the imagination has to include a place for solitary sex. --The New ...
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Masturbation: The History of the Great Terror.(Reviews)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; Masturbation: The History of the Great Terror. By Jean Stengers and Ann Van Neck. Translated by Kathryn Hoffmann (New York: Palgrave, 2001. ix plus 232 pp.). In Masturbation, Stengers and Van Neck document the fears about masturbation that reached crisis proportions during the nineteenth century. Although ...
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Adolescent Males' Willingness to Report Masturbation.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Sex Research
; ...1996; Petersen & Catania, 1997). Masturbation is one of the most prevalent sexual...Michaels, 1994). However, because masturbation is also one of the most sensitive behaviors...of respondents rated questions about masturbation as making most people very uneasy...
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Very Safe Sex.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...Internet recalls Wilde's quip about masturbation: cleaner, more efficient, and you meet...seed, brought to fruition by an act of masturbation. Ever since Americans accepted the...would enable them to understand why masturbation is wrong. If all sex is a matter of...
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Clinton asks Elders to resign, but she still doesn't regret her masturbation comment. (US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders)
Magazine article from: Jet
; ...President Clinton learned she said masturbation should be discussed in schools as part...from conservatives. Her remarks on masturbation were made December 1 after delivering...explicit discussion and promotion of masturbation in schools. Her response in its entirety...
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