Surgical Temptation The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

Name: Surgical Temptation The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain
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ISBN: 9780226136455

ISBN-10: 0226136450

ISBN-13: 9780226136455

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert Darby

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In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedure again came under hostile scrutiny, culminating in its disappearance during the 1960s. Why Britain adopted a practice it had traditionally abhorred and then abandoned it after only two generations is the subject of "A Surgical Temptation. Robert Darby reveals that circumcision has always been related to the question of how to control male…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The European Background



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



Medico-Moral Politics in Victorian Britain



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



The Demonization of the Foreskin



One of the Most Grievous Diseases of Humanity: Spermatorrhea in British Medical Practice



The Besetting Trial of Our Boys: Finding a Cure for Masturbation



The 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


Notes


References


Index