| Title |
Twentieth-century attitudes toward masturbation
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Religion and Health, December 1986
|
| DOI | 10.1007/bf01534067 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michael S. Patton |
| Abstract |
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. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 23 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 29% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 21% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 6 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 5 | 21% |
| Psychology | 5 | 21% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 13% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 8% |
| Unknown | 6 | 25% |
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