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- catalog abstract ""The history of sexuality and its attendant myths is rife with moral tales of chastity culminating in joy and promiscuity ending in retribution. Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is a frequently frightening and, sometimes, unintentionally, hilarious look at the "official" attitudes toward masturbation throughout history and how they have affected the sex lives of anyone living and breathing today. The French biologist Tissot was the original adversary who turned masturbation into the scourge of young men everywhere. Tissot hypothesized that it was a practice that sapped the strength from strong young men, ultimately turning them into drooling idiots fit only to be hidden away in attics by their families. From Tissot's original work, the idea of masturbation as sinful and biologically degenerating informed the punitive sexual attitudes of the German courts and helped to develop the anti-masturbation surgical procedures and mechanical devices of continental Europe and England. Tissot's influence did not, however, end at Europe's shores. His anti-masturbation stance traveled across the Atlantic to play a major part in the early versions of the Boy Scouts of America Hand-book."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Masturbation : the history of a great terror".
- catalog contributor b12171035.
- catalog contributor b12171036.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""The history of sexuality and its attendant myths is rife with moral tales of chastity culminating in joy and promiscuity ending in retribution. Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is a frequently frightening and, sometimes, unintentionally, hilarious look at the "official" attitudes toward masturbation throughout history and how they have affected the sex lives of anyone living and breathing today. The French biologist Tissot was the original adversary who turned masturbation into the scourge of young men everywhere. Tissot hypothesized that it was a practice that sapped the strength from strong young men, ultimately turning them into drooling idiots fit only to be hidden away in attics by their families. From Tissot's original work, the idea of masturbation as sinful and biologically degenerating informed the punitive sexual attitudes of the German courts and helped to develop the anti-masturbation surgical procedures and mechanical devices of continental Europe and England. Tissot's influence did not, however, end at Europe's shores. His anti-masturbation stance traveled across the Atlantic to play a major part in the early versions of the Boy Scouts of America Hand-book."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "ch. 1. "A shameful vice which decimates youth" -- ch. 2. Before the fear -- ch. 3. Onania -- ch. 4. Onania's influence -- ch. 5. Tissot -- ch. 6. Tissot's triumph -- ch. 7. An obsession of the Western world -- ch. 8. The faith starts to be shaken -- ch. 9. Tradition holds on -- ch. 10. Reflux into disorder.".
- catalog extent "ix, 239 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0312224435".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave,".
- catalog subject "2001 M-565".
- catalog subject "306.77/2/09 21".
- catalog subject "Ethics History.".
- catalog subject "HQ 447 S825h 2001a".
- catalog subject "HQ447 .S75 2001".
- catalog subject "Masturbation History.".
- catalog subject "Masturbation Moral and ethical aspects History.".
- catalog subject "Morals.".
- catalog tableOfContents "ch. 1. "A shameful vice which decimates youth" -- ch. 2. Before the fear -- ch. 3. Onania -- ch. 4. Onania's influence -- ch. 5. Tissot -- ch. 6. Tissot's triumph -- ch. 7. An obsession of the Western world -- ch. 8. The faith starts to be shaken -- ch. 9. Tradition holds on -- ch. 10. Reflux into disorder.".
- catalog title "Masturbation : the history of a great terror / Jean Stengers, Anne Van Neck ; translated by Kathryn A. Hoffmann.".
- catalog title "Masturbation : the history of a great terror".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".