Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror

by Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck

Book Overview

Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is a funny and frightening look at the attitudes towards masturbation throughout history and how they have affected the sex lives of anyone living and breathing today. The French biologist, Tissot, was the original spoil-sport who turned masturbation into the scourge of young men everywhere. Saying that a little self-induced pleasure caused wasting, insanity, and finally death, Tissot put the clamps...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312224435
• ISBN13: 9780312224431
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"