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With the Hand
Mels Van Driel
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Description for With the Hand
Hardcover. To help the world overcome its diffidence towards solo sex, Mels van Driel has written With the Hand. Van Driel covers a great number of topics, from the physical, to the mythical, to the mythological, to the artistic, in order to explore masturbation in all its astonishing variety. Translator(s): Vincent, Paul. Num Pages: 256 pages, 27 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBK5; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Most women do it at home; men, it seems, do it everywhere. Some consider it a health treatment, others as love for themselves. Yet despite everyone doing it, no one actually talks about it - masturbation is still taboo, and even today the subject is not discussed at dinner parties or soirees. To help the world overcome its diffidence towards solo sex, Mels van Driel has written With the Hand. Consulting theologians, historians, classicists, doctors, sexologists, connoisseurs, artists, philosophers, writers, poets, musicians, feminists and chauvinists, Van Driel answers questions about what masturbation actually is, and describes the latest ... Read more
Most women do it at home; men, it seems, do it everywhere. Some consider it a health treatment, others as love for themselves. Yet despite everyone doing it, no one actually talks about it - masturbation is still taboo, and even today the subject is not discussed at dinner parties or soirees. To help the world overcome its diffidence towards solo sex, Mels van Driel has written With the Hand. Consulting theologians, historians, classicists, doctors, sexologists, connoisseurs, artists, philosophers, writers, poets, musicians, feminists and chauvinists, Van Driel answers questions about what masturbation actually is, and describes the latest ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861899194
SKU
V9781861899194
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Mels Van Driel
Mels van Driel is a consultant urologist and sexologist at Groningen University Medical Center in The Netherlands. He has written widely for scientific publications, newspapers and magazines, and is the author of Manhood: The Rise and Fall of the Penis (Reaktion Books, 2009).
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