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A funny and frightening history of attitudes towards masturbation and how they have affected the sex lives of pretty much everyone living and breathing today. From the French biologist, Tissot, the original spoll-sport who turned masturbation into the scourge of young men everywhere, to the punitive German courts, to the surgical preventatives of continental Europe and England (don't ask!), to the Boy Scouts of America. It's all here, it isn't pretty but it's certainly fascinating. Includes 14 pages of illustrations!

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.,. rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. -- Publishers Weekly,, . a good read. -- Library Journal,, . required reading... -- Playboy,, . genius... -- Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. --Merry Wiesner-Hanks .. .rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. --Publishers Weekly.. .a good read. --Library Journal.. .required reading... --Playboy.. .genius... --Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. --Merry Wiesner-Hanks ...rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. Publishers Weekly ...a good read. Library Journal ...required reading... Playboy ...genius... Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes fact, ' and fact becomes nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. Merry Wiesner-Hanks .. .rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. -- Publishers Weekly .. .a good read. -- Library Journal .. .required reading... -- Playboy .. .genius... -- Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. -- Merry Wiesner-Hanks .. .rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. -- Publishers Weekly .. .a good read. -- Library Journal .. .required reading... -- Playboy .. .genius... -- Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. --Merry Wiesner-Hanks . ..rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. -- Publishers Weekly . ..a good read. -- Library Journal . ..required reading... -- Playboy . ..genius... -- Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. --Merry Wiesner-Hanks ...rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. - Publishers Weekly ...a good read. - Library Journal ...required reading... - Playboy ...genius... - Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes `fact,' and fact becomes `nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. -Merry Wiesner-Hanks 0;...rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study.1; 2; Publishers Weekly 0;...a good read.1; 2; Library Journal 0;...required reading...1; 2; Playboy 0;...genius...1; 2; Flaunt Magazine 0;Kathryn Hoffmann7;s lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck7;s Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 6;fact,7; and fact becomes 6;nature7;--and also how quickly that nature could change.1; 2;Merry Wiesner-Hanks ...rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. -- Publishers Weekly ...a good read. -- Library Journal ...required reading... -- Playboy ...genius... -- Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes ' fact, ' and fact becomes ' nature' --and also how quickly that nature could change. -- Merry Wiesner-Hanks ... rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. -- Publishers Weekly ... a good read. -- Library Journal ... required reading... -- Playboy ... genius... -- Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. --Merry Wiesner-Hanks

.,. rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. -- Publishers Weekly,, . a good read. -- Library Journal,, . required reading... -- Playboy,, . genius... -- Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. --Merry Wiesner-Hanks

. ..rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. -- Publishers Weekly <br><br>. ..a good read. -- Library Journal <br><br>. ..required reading... -- Playboy <br><br>. ..genius... -- Flaunt Magazine <br><br> Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. --Merry Wiesner-Hanks<br>

. ..rigorous, well-turned and enlightening study. -- Publishers Weekly . ..a good read. -- Library Journal . ..required reading... -- Playboy . ..genius... -- Flaunt Magazine Kathryn Hoffmann's lively translation of Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck's Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is both a great read and a cautionary tale about the power of ideas. . . . Loaded with quotations from Freud, Rousseau, and many lesser lights on the intellectual landscape, the book traces how speculation becomes 'fact, ' and fact becomes 'nature'--and also how quickly that nature could change. --Merry Wiesner-Hanks

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Jean Stengers is Professor of History at the University of Brussels. The late Anne Van Neck was a Master of Research at the University's Institute of History. Kathryn Hoffmann, University of Hawaii, is the author of Society of Pleasures.

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