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Clinical Management of Sex Addiction

Clinical Management of Sex Addiction Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 34, No. 4, August 2005, pp. 471–478 ( 2005) DOI: 10.1007/s10508-005-4354-8 Book Reviews Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. writings about solitary sex from the pre-Diaspora Jewry By Thomas W. Laqueur. Zone Books, New York, through the end of the 17th century. Laqueur concludes 2003, 501 pp., $34.00. that for the first two millennia in the West, masturbation was not a big deal. It was condemned as minor sin in the 1,2 Reviewed by John H. Gagnon, Ph.D. Christian Era, but without much moral or political energy expended on its extirpation. Most importantly, he cannot This is a long book packed with such rich detail that even find any writings about masturbation in the prior centuries the author suggests in a couple of places that the reader (particularly the 16th and 17th) that are premonitory of the who is only interested in his major claims might skip anti-masturbation beliefs expressed in the early 18th. ahead. There are actually only two new claims: one is The second epoch of solitary sex, the period of acute archival, the other intellectual. The claim that comes from anxiety about masturbation, opens at the beginning of the archival http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer Journals

Clinical Management of Sex Addiction

Archives of Sexual Behavior , Volume 34 (4) – Jan 1, 2005

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.
Subject
Psychology; Sexual Behavior; Public Health; Social Sciences, general
ISSN
0004-0002
eISSN
1573-2800
DOI
10.1007/s10508-005-4358-1
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Abstract

Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 34, No. 4, August 2005, pp. 471–478 ( 2005) DOI: 10.1007/s10508-005-4354-8 Book Reviews Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. writings about solitary sex from the pre-Diaspora Jewry By Thomas W. Laqueur. Zone Books, New York, through the end of the 17th century. Laqueur concludes 2003, 501 pp., $34.00. that for the first two millennia in the West, masturbation was not a big deal. It was condemned as minor sin in the 1,2 Reviewed by John H. Gagnon, Ph.D. Christian Era, but without much moral or political energy expended on its extirpation. Most importantly, he cannot This is a long book packed with such rich detail that even find any writings about masturbation in the prior centuries the author suggests in a couple of places that the reader (particularly the 16th and 17th) that are premonitory of the who is only interested in his major claims might skip anti-masturbation beliefs expressed in the early 18th. ahead. There are actually only two new claims: one is The second epoch of solitary sex, the period of acute archival, the other intellectual. The claim that comes from anxiety about masturbation, opens at the beginning of the archival

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Published: Jan 1, 2005

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