Diane Mason
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719077142
- eISBN:
- 9781781701089
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719077142.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This book considers the construction and presentation of the masturbator in nineteenth-century fiction and medical writing, and the implication of him or her in a paradoxically ‘secret’ vice, made ...
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This book considers the construction and presentation of the masturbator in nineteenth-century fiction and medical writing, and the implication of him or her in a paradoxically ‘secret’ vice, made visible to the Victorians through a range of bodily signifiers yet invisible when perceiving the bodies of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It demonstrates how the symptoms of solitary self-abuse may be seen to disclose other textual vices and pathologies. The ongoing debate on Victorian sexuality encloses the related issue of autoerotic behaviour, a field which is both problematic in terms of extent and implication, and dogged by a certain humorous mode of discourse.Less
This book considers the construction and presentation of the masturbator in nineteenth-century fiction and medical writing, and the implication of him or her in a paradoxically ‘secret’ vice, made visible to the Victorians through a range of bodily signifiers yet invisible when perceiving the bodies of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It demonstrates how the symptoms of solitary self-abuse may be seen to disclose other textual vices and pathologies. The ongoing debate on Victorian sexuality encloses the related issue of autoerotic behaviour, a field which is both problematic in terms of extent and implication, and dogged by a certain humorous mode of discourse.
Alan F. Dixson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199544646
- eISBN:
- 9780191810022
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199544646.003.0005
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
This chapter discusses the difference between male sexuality and female sexuality among primates. It explores patterns of pre-copulatory and copulatory behaviour that brings both sexes into proximity ...
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This chapter discusses the difference between male sexuality and female sexuality among primates. It explores patterns of pre-copulatory and copulatory behaviour that brings both sexes into proximity regarding their postures, movements, and sexual responses. It gives an overview of the evolution of copulatory postures and the evolution of intromission and ejaculatory patterns. Autoerotic behaviour is also explained, as well as abnormal forms of sexual activity. It also addresses some conceptual issues in human sexuality, particularly gender identity and gender role.Less
This chapter discusses the difference between male sexuality and female sexuality among primates. It explores patterns of pre-copulatory and copulatory behaviour that brings both sexes into proximity regarding their postures, movements, and sexual responses. It gives an overview of the evolution of copulatory postures and the evolution of intromission and ejaculatory patterns. Autoerotic behaviour is also explained, as well as abnormal forms of sexual activity. It also addresses some conceptual issues in human sexuality, particularly gender identity and gender role.
