Stories
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The metamorphosis of masturbation
Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
Catalogue
- Books
Masturbation, Little Suck-a-thumb and Struwwelpeter / by Diana Mason.
Mason, Diane.Date: 1998- Books
Masturbation und Sexualerziehung in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart : ein kritischer Literaturbericht / Karl Heinz Bloch.
Bloch, Karl Heinz, 1929-Date: [1989], ©1989- Books
Masturbation : the history of a great terror / Jean Stengers, Anne Van Neck ; translated by Kathryn A. Hoffmann.
Stengers, Jean.Date: 2001
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- Online
Die Masturbation; eine Monographie für Ärzte und Pädagogen.
Rohleder, Hermann, 1866-1934.Date: 1899- Books
Caveant moniti! : ein offenes Beherzigungswort uber Masturbation fur Gebildete aller Stande, besonders Eltern, Erzieher, Seelsorger und Arzte / von Ludwig Kannamuller.
Kannamuller, Ludwig