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Article: Review essay: a post-modernist theory of wanking: Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.(Abstracts)(Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Abstract: Robert Darby, "Review Essay: A Post-Modernist Theory of Wanking: Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. By Thomas Laqueur (New York: Zone Books, 2003. 501pp.)."
In Solitary Sex Thomas Laqueur aims to provide a comprehensive explanation for the anxiety (both medical and moral) over masturbation which gripped the western world from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. While the study is an important contribution to the debate on this problem, it is marred by lack of specificity, a ...