عنوان

A surgical temptation :

0226136450

9780226136455

A surgical temptation :

[Book]

the demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain /

Robert Darby.

Chicago :

University of Chicago Press,

©2005.

xi, 374 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-364) and index.

Introduction: the willful organ meets fantasy surgery -- The best of your property : what a boy once knew about sex -- Pathologizing male sexuality : the masturbation phobia and the invention of spermatorrhea -- The shadow of Parson Malthus : sexual morals from the Georgians to the Edwardians -- The priests of the body : doctors and disease in an antisensual age -- A source of serious mischief : William Acton and the case against the foreskin -- A compromising and unpublishable mutilation : clitoridectomy and circumcision in the 1860s -- One of the most grievous diseases of humanity : spermatorrhea in British medical practice -- The besetting trial of our boys : finding a cure for masturbation -- This unyielding tube of flesh : the rise and fall of congenital phimosis -- Prevention is better than cure : sanitizing the modern body -- The purity movement and the social evil : circumcision as a preventive of syphilis -- The stigmata of a gentleman : circumcision and British society -- Conclusion: the end of the culture of abstinence.

0

'A Surgical Temptation' reveals the history of the practice of, & the arguments for & against, circumcision in GB from the 19th to the 20th century.

Circumcision-- History.

Circumcision-- Social aspects.

Circumcision, Male-- ethics.

Circumcision, Male-- history.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Masturbation-- prevention & control.

Penile Diseases-- prevention & control.

Beschneidung

Circoncision-- Aspect social.

Circoncision-- Histoire.

Circoncision masculine-- Grande-Bretagne.

Circumcision-- Social aspects.

Circumcision.

Masturbation.

United Kingdom.

Großbritannien

2

7

Darby, Robert, (Robert J. L.)

20200822101947.0

[Book]

Y