Solitary Pleasures is the first book to address masturbation, exploring both the history and artistic representation of autoeroticism. Masturbation today enjoys a highly equivocal and contradictory status among cultural discourses relating to sexuality. On the one hand, it is the subject of much popular treatment, especially in sexual self-help books, advice columns, and in popular culture (for example, Madonna's Like a Virgin performance). On the other hand, masturbation is still a taboo subject for most people in every day conversation. Perhaps more surprisingly. it has been largely dismissed by academics as a trivial, humorous topic, and the history of a delusion'. Analyzing representations of autoeroticism from the 16th century to the present, Solitary Pleasures establishes masturbation and related issues of sexual fantasy and sexual autonomy as subjects of importance for cultural history, gender studies and the history of literature and art.
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...a queer theory paean to masturbation... Joycelyn ELders would approve..
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Obviously auteroticism deserves to finally be seriously examined in today's climate of sex-related danger, and that end is accomplished very well in this text..
–Gay Chicago Magazine
The first anthology...that deals extensively with masturbation, Solitary Pleasures keeps Routledge on the publishing cutting edge of contemporary avant garde social and cultural theory.
–The San Diego Review
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Obviously auteroticism deserves to finally be seriously examined in today's climate of sex-related danger, and that end is accomplished very well in this text..
–Gay Chicago Magazine
The first anthology...that deals extensively with masturbation, Solitary Pleasures keeps Routledge on the publishing cutting edge of contemporary avant garde social and cultural theory.
–The San Diego Review
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Paula Bennett is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Vernon A. Rosario II is Instructor in the History of Science at Harvard College, and an M.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School.
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This is not a casual read but is an excellent work that would suit a student of sexuality studies down to the ground.
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So why not write about it. SOLITARY PLEASURES explores masterbation in ways you've never thought about before. It's a rich academic anthology (watch out for those big words) with essays that are important to the study of sex and sexuality--"masterbation for the mind" is the way I like to think about this collection.
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It was probably the best book that I've ever read on the topic, and believe me, I've read plenty. Anyone can read this book, except for the obvious, of course.
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- Luxurious Sexualities: Textual Practice Volume 11 Issue 3 (Vol 11, Issue 3) by Jean Howard on page 14, page 22, and page 23
- The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom by Michael Bronski in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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