Twentieth-century attitudes toward masturbation

This article demonstrates the progress that medicine, psychiatry, religion, and anthropology have made toward a variant perspective, of masturbation. Researchers documented the suffering and damage caused by classically ingrained religious and medical distortions.The "secret sin" of Judeo-...

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Main Author: Patton, Michael S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [1986]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 1986, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 291-302
Further subjects:B Social Disease
B Unconditional Acceptance
B Psychosexual Dysfunction
B Jewish Denomination
B Variant Perspective
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Summary:This article demonstrates the progress that medicine, psychiatry, religion, and anthropology have made toward a variant perspective, of masturbation. Researchers documented the suffering and damage caused by classically ingrained religious and medical distortions.The "secret sin" of Judeo-Christianity and the "social disease" of nineteenth-century medicine has paradoxially become the therapy for various forms of psychosexual dysfunction. Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish denominations polarize opinions from rigorous orthodoxy to unconditional acceptance of this psychosexual behavior as a source of emotional homeostasis.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF01534067