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- catalog abstract ""This is the first cultural history of the world's most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual act is front-page news, the easiest and least harmful one is embarrassing, discomforting, and genuinely radical when openly acknowledged. But this has not always been the case. The ancient world cared little about maturbation; it was of no great concern in Jewish and Christian teaching about sexuality. In fact, as Thomas Lacqeur dramatically shows, solitary sex as an important medical and moral issue can be dated with a precision rare in cultural history: the solitary vice, self-pollution, or self-abuse came into being around 1712. A creature of the Enlightenment, masturbation at first worried not conservatives - for whom it had long been but one among many sins of the flesh - but rather the progressives who welcomed sexual pleasure but struggled to create an ethics of self-government. The first truly democratic sexuality, masturbation was of ethical interest to both men and women, young and old." "Solitary Sex explains how and why this humble and once obscure means of sexual gratification became the evil twin of the great virtues of modern commercial society; individual moral autonomy and privacy, creativity and the imagination, abundance, and desire. It shows how a moral problem became a medical one, how some of the most famous doctors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were convinced that solitary pleasures killed or maimed. In the early twentieth century, Freud and his successors transformed this tradition: masturbation defined a stage in human development, the foundational sexuality that culture transformed for its own purposes. And finally, in the late twentieth century, masturbation become for some a key element in the struggle for sexual, personal, and even artistic liberation. Working with material from the prehistory of solitary sex in the Bible to third wave feminism, conceptual artists and the World Wide Web, historian Thomas Laqueur uses medical and philosophical texts as well as diaries, autobiographies, and pornography to tell the story of what has become the last taboo."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12712682.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Solitary Sex explains how and why this humble and once obscure means of sexual gratification became the evil twin of the great virtues of modern commercial society; individual moral autonomy and privacy, creativity and the imagination, abundance, and desire. It shows how a moral problem became a medical one, how some of the most famous doctors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were convinced that solitary pleasures killed or maimed. In the early twentieth century, Freud and his successors transformed this tradition: masturbation defined a stage in human development, the foundational sexuality that culture transformed for its own purposes. And finally, in the late twentieth century, masturbation become for some a key element in the struggle for sexual, personal, and even artistic liberation. Working with material from the prehistory of solitary sex in the Bible to third wave feminism, conceptual artists and the World Wide Web, historian Thomas Laqueur uses medical and philosophical texts as well as diaries, autobiographies, and pornography to tell the story of what has become the last taboo."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""This is the first cultural history of the world's most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual act is front-page news, the easiest and least harmful one is embarrassing, discomforting, and genuinely radical when openly acknowledged. But this has not always been the case. The ancient world cared little about maturbation; it was of no great concern in Jewish and Christian teaching about sexuality. In fact, as Thomas Lacqeur dramatically shows, solitary sex as an important medical and moral issue can be dated with a precision rare in cultural history: the solitary vice, self-pollution, or self-abuse came into being around 1712. A creature of the Enlightenment, masturbation at first worried not conservatives - for whom it had long been but one among many sins of the flesh - but rather the progressives who welcomed sexual pleasure but struggled to create an ethics of self-government. The first truly democratic sexuality, masturbation was of ethical interest to both men and women, young and old."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-496) and index.".
- catalog description "The beginning -- The spread of masturbation from Onania to the Web -- Masturbation before Onania -- The problem with masturbation -- Why masturbation became a problem -- Solitary sex in the twentieth century.".
- catalog extent "501 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Solitary sex.".
- catalog identifier "1890951323 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "1890951331 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Solitary sex.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Zone Books,".
- catalog relation "Solitary sex.".
- catalog subject "2003 E-178".
- catalog subject "306.77/2 21".
- catalog subject "Culture.".
- catalog subject "HQ 447 L317s 2003".
- catalog subject "HQ447 .L36 2003".
- catalog subject "Masturbation History.".
- catalog subject "Masturbation history.".
- catalog subject "Masturbation in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sex Religious aspects.".
- catalog subject "Social Values.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The beginning -- The spread of masturbation from Onania to the Web -- Masturbation before Onania -- The problem with masturbation -- Why masturbation became a problem -- Solitary sex in the twentieth century.".
- catalog title "Solitary sex : a cultural history of masturbation / Thomas W. Laqueur.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".