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Article: Masturbation: 100 years ago and now.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Auto-Eroticism: A Study of Onamism and Neurosis, by Wilhelm Stekel. Reprinted. New York: Kegan Paul, 2004, 298 pp., $144.50 (cloth).
Masturbation, after being somewhat neglected academically, became popular recently, with at least three major books published on the topic in 2003 (Bockting & Coleman, 2003; Cornog, 2003; Laquer, 2003). Obviously Kegan Paul saw a potential market and reprinted the 1950 Grove Press translation of a classical study by Wilhelm Stekel (1858-1940). The translation was by James S. Van Teslaar, but this is not mentioned in the current printing, although the original introduction and forward by Emil A. Gutheil and Fredric Wertham are ...