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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
"The victims of genital ardor," that is, people who masturbate, are subject to tuberculosis, consumption, loss of sight and hearing, lesions of the heart, melancholia, hysteria, death and numerous other dangers, according to texts from various ages. In Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror (trans. by Kathryn Hoffman), Jean Stengers and the late Anne Van Neck, Belgian scholars, attribute Western society's long-standing antimasturbatory fervor to "certain ideas... launched by several men" not, like many cultural phenomena, to broad social tendencies. The earliest opponent was the anonymous English author of a widely distributed pamphlet; the Swiss Dr. Samuel-August Tissot was the next loud voice. The authors follow a string of successors in this rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study.
From Library Journal
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was fired for suggesting that schools teach about masturbation. Why? The story goes back to 1700 and a quack's tome titled Onania. The ensuing snowball of medical and social horror about solo sex reached its greatest mass about 1800-80 then slowly began to melt in reaction to medical and sociological evidence. Yet traces of the terror remain. Belgian historians Stengers and Van Neck tell the story with relish and exhaustive references, attempting to make some sense of what may have been a historical fluke. While the history of masturbation has been updated somewhat since the 1984 original publication of this work in French, Stengers and Van Neck's chronicle draws together many sources unavailable in English. It's also a good read. This work belongs in academic and large public libraries, necessarily those with collections in the history of science and medicine. Smaller public libraries and lay readers might consider Edward Rowan's The Joy of Self-Pleasuring (LJ 5/1/00), which covers historical aspects of masturbation in much less detail. Martha Cornog, Philadelphia
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"The victims of genital ardor," that is, people who masturbate, are subject to tuberculosis, consumption, loss of sight and hearing, lesions of the heart, melancholia, hysteria, death and numerous other dangers, according to texts from various ages. In Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror (trans. by Kathryn Hoffman), Jean Stengers and the late Anne Van Neck, Belgian scholars, attribute Western society's long-standing antimasturbatory fervor to "certain ideas... launched by several men" not, like many cultural phenomena, to broad social tendencies. The earliest opponent was the anonymous English author of a widely distributed pamphlet; the Swiss Dr. Samuel-August Tissot was the next loud voice. The authors follow a string of successors in this rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was fired for suggesting that schools teach about masturbation. Why? The story goes back to 1700 and a quack's tome titled Onania. The ensuing snowball of medical and social horror about solo sex reached its greatest mass about 1800-80 then slowly began to melt in reaction to medical and sociological evidence. Yet traces of the terror remain. Belgian historians Stengers and Van Neck tell the story with relish and exhaustive references, attempting to make some sense of what may have been a historical fluke. While the history of masturbation has been updated somewhat since the 1984 original publication of this work in French, Stengers and Van Neck's chronicle draws together many sources unavailable in English. It's also a good read. This work belongs in academic and large public libraries, necessarily those with collections in the history of science and medicine. Smaller public libraries and lay readers might consider Edward Rowan's The Joy of Self-Pleasuring (LJ 5/1/00), which covers historical aspects of masturbation in much less detail. Martha Cornog, Philadelphia
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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