The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture

by Diane Mason (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $90.71

  Provides a reading of both fictional and medical writings concerned with auto-erotic sexuality in the long nineteenth century. This book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by influential English, Continental and American practitioners such as J H Kellogg, E B Foote, Havelock Ellis, Krafft-Ebing and R V Pierce.