Description: Masturbation - The History of a Great Terror First Edition by Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck Translated by Kathryn HoffmannMasturbation: 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."
Price: 30 USD
Location: Palm Springs, California
End Time: 2024-12-20T20:16:05.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Personalize: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Personalized: No
Original Language: French
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: No
Book Title: Masturbation : the History of a Great Terror
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Topic: Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
Publication Year: 2001
Item Height: 0.8 in
Illustrator: Yes
Features: Revised
Genre: Psychology
Item Weight: 15.8 Oz
Author: Jean Stengers, Anne Van Neck
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
