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Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation

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Conscientiously, but not dourly, Mr. Laqueur has written the history of "the Vice of Monks recluse," as one 18th-century sawbones called it.

A historian explains how the stigma of 'solitary sex' rose ... and fell

According to Laqueur, masturbation was quite specifically invented as a profound cultural concern in an anonymous pamphlet published in England entitled "Onanism," which coincided with the early days of the European Enlightenment.

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