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Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror
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Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror Hardcover - 2001

by Stengers, Jean; Van Neck, Anne

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Two professors from the University of Brussels offer a funny and frightening look at attitudes toward masturbation throughout history and how they have affected the sex lives of anyone living and breathing today. of illustrations.

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Palgrave, 2001,. /Dust Jacket Included. 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0312224435 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 239pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. slight label mark on front cover. ISBN: 0312224435 .
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  • Title Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror
  • Author Stengers, Jean; Van Neck, Anne
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - /Dust Jacket Included
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave, 2001,, NEW YORK
  • Date 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 470437
  • ISBN 9780312224431 / 0312224435
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Masturbation - History, Masturbation - Moral and ethical aspects -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001019450
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.772

First line

"There is no need for us to describe here an act which is unfortunately as well known as it is shameful": it is with these words that the entry Masturbation begins in the Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIX siecle by Pierre Larousse.

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Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2002, Page 1084
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2001, Page 142
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/25/2001, Page 70
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2001, Page 128

About the author

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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