Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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Pain, politics and the power of photography
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
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Delusional recycling and the problem with plastic
Many of us are guilty of wishful thinking when it comes to our rubbish. Arianne Shahvisi exposes shaky recycling infrastructure and overseas dumping, arguing for an end to waste colonialism.
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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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A treatise on the diseases produced by onanism, masturbation, self-pollution, and other excesses / by L. Deslandes ; translated from the French, with many additions.
Deslandes, L. (Léopold), 1796-1850.Date: 1839- Books
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Onania: Or, The heinous sin of self-pollution, and all its frightful consequences (in both sexes) considered: with spiritual advice to those who have injured themselves by this abominable practice.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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Onania, or the heinous sin of self-pollution, and all its frightful consequences in both sexes, considered. : With spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injur'd themselves by this abominable practice.
Date: [1716?]- Books
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A new treatise on the venereal disease, gleets, and seminal weaknesses; the dreadful effects of self-pollution; and the causes of impotency, barrenness etc. directing methods of cure / [J.H. Smyth].
Smyth, J. H. (J. Hamilton)Date: [1775]- Books
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Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution and all its frightful consequences (in both sexes) considered with spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice.
Date: 1756