Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521448918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This volume is about those who have investigated sex from antiquity to the present day.
Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521448918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This volume is about those who have investigated sex from antiquity to the present day.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521448918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This volume is about those who have investigated sex from antiquity to the present day.
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Solitary Pleasures
Author: Paula Bennett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134715331
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Solitary Pleasures is the first anthology 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 pop culture--for example, Madonna's "Like a Virgin" performance, a recent Roseanne episode, and David Russell's movie Spanking the Monkey. On the other hand, masturbation is still a taboo subject for most people in everyday conversation. Perhaps more surprising, it has been largely dismissed by academics as a trivial, humorous topic and the "history of a delusion." It was not until the eighteenth century that "onanism" was portrayed as a morbid act of epidemic proportions that produced pox, hair loss, blindness, insanity, impotence and a horrible. Its prevention and treatment warranted diverse and often cruel measures: surveillance, diets, drugs, corsets, electrical alarms, urethral cauterization, clitoridectomy, and labial sewing. This literature's apocalyptic warnings about the personal and social morbidity of "pollution-by-the-hand" are largely unknown to most people today, but the ghostly echoes of these admonitions still inform and preserve the present taboo of the subject. Why did this apparently innocuous activity become so overpoweringly stigmatized? Why was the eradication of masturbation one of the most important goals of 19th century public hygiene? Why, even after the "sexual revolution," is masturbation still shrouded in shame?
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134715331
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Solitary Pleasures is the first anthology 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 pop culture--for example, Madonna's "Like a Virgin" performance, a recent Roseanne episode, and David Russell's movie Spanking the Monkey. On the other hand, masturbation is still a taboo subject for most people in everyday conversation. Perhaps more surprising, it has been largely dismissed by academics as a trivial, humorous topic and the "history of a delusion." It was not until the eighteenth century that "onanism" was portrayed as a morbid act of epidemic proportions that produced pox, hair loss, blindness, insanity, impotence and a horrible. Its prevention and treatment warranted diverse and often cruel measures: surveillance, diets, drugs, corsets, electrical alarms, urethral cauterization, clitoridectomy, and labial sewing. This literature's apocalyptic warnings about the personal and social morbidity of "pollution-by-the-hand" are largely unknown to most people today, but the ghostly echoes of these admonitions still inform and preserve the present taboo of the subject. Why did this apparently innocuous activity become so overpoweringly stigmatized? Why was the eradication of masturbation one of the most important goals of 19th century public hygiene? Why, even after the "sexual revolution," is masturbation still shrouded in shame?
The Construction of Homosexuality
Author: David F. Greenberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022621981X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only deviant because society has constructed, or defined, it as deviant. The book takes us over vast terrains of example and detail in the history of homosexuality."—Nicholas B. Dirks, New York Times Book Review
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022621981X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only deviant because society has constructed, or defined, it as deviant. The book takes us over vast terrains of example and detail in the history of homosexuality."—Nicholas B. Dirks, New York Times Book Review
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
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Languages : en
Pages : 1116
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Languages : en
Pages : 1116
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Catalogue
Author: Bloomsbury Book Auctions (Firm)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Category : General
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Category : General
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Saturday Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Languages : en
Pages : 854
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