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100 1 Laqueur, Thomas Walter,|eauthor
245 10 Solitary sex :|ba cultural history of masturbation /
|cThomas W. Laqueur
264 New York :|bZone Books,|c2003
300 501 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index
505 0 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
520 1 "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."
520 8 "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
650 0 Masturbation|xHistory
650 0 Masturbation in literature
650 0 Sex|xReligious aspects
776 08 |iOnline version:|aLaqueur, Thomas Walter.|tSolitary sex.
|dNew York : Zone Books, 2003|w(OCoLC)648220578
