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'A Sex-Bomb . . . Notes I page 1 'a sex-bomb ..." New Man & Woman (London: Marshall Cavendish, 1980) part 21 p. 402. 'If you're not sure . ..' ibid. p. 401. 'We are all .. .' title of a book by French sexologist Michel Meignam, Nous sommes tous des perverssexuels persecutes (paris: Robert Laffom, 1980). 'it is sometimes . ..' Michel Meignant, [e t'aime: Ie livre rouge de la sexologie humaniste (Paris : BuchetiChastel, 1975) p. 222. 'So let's ...' T (joan Terry Garrity}, Total Loving (St Albans and London: Granada Publish­ ing,1978}p.l1. 'magnificent work . ..' / 'terribly complicated . ..' ibid . pp . 74-5. 'refuel in bed' Alayne Yates, Sex Without Shame (London: Futura Publications, 198O)p. 134. 'Your sexual equipment . ..' T, Total Loving, p. 96. 'fabulous . .' / 'contract ...'/ 'once . .' ibid . p. 93 2 'those who ask . .' Yates, Sex Without Shame. p. 8. Clearly you want ... The books mentioned are: Paul Brown and Carolyn Faulder , Treat Yourself to Sex (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979); lain Stewart, Good Sex Guide (London: Ocean Books, 1972); Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex:Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking (London: Quartet Books, 1974) and More Joy of Sex (London: Quartet Books. 1977); Frank S. Caprio, Your Right to Se» Happiness (New York: Citadel Books, 1966); John E. Eichenlaub, The Troubled Bed: The Obstacles to SexU41 Happiness and What You Can Do About Them (New York: Delacorte Press. 1971); Abraham I. Friedman, How Sex Can Keep You Slim (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. 1972); T, Total Loving; Rachel Moss (ed.), God Says Yes to Sexuality (London: Collins, 1981}. It might beadded that 170 The Sexual Fix the number of sex tides is enormous, something we know from experience of any bookstall. Many authors, including some of thosejustcited, are indefatiga­ bly prolific in all directions on thefix front. Frank S. Caprio, for example, is the author not only of the obligatory The SexU4/1y AdeqU4te Female (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1953) but equally of How to Heighten Your SeXU4l Pleasure Through Simple Mental Stimulation (New York: Galahad Books, 1974) and How to Solve Your Sex ProblemsWith Self-Hypnosis (Hollywood: Wilshire BookCo., 1972), plus many more ... 2 'you are . .' T, Total Loving, p . 98. 'melting erections ...' Yates , Sex Without Shame, p. 30. 'the natural state .. .' Meignant, Ie t'aime, p . 48 . 'catapulted ...' T, Total Lov ing, p. 74. 4 'the new understanding ...'/ 'The only rights .. .' Brown and Faulder, Treat Yourself to Sex, pp. 7, 23 . 'sex is . .' David Holbrook, The Mash of Hate (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1972) p . 73. a book entitled .. I Mary Whitehouse, Whatever Happened to Sex? (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1978). II page 7 'It was a moment ...' Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Utbervilles (1891) (London: Pan Books, 1978) p.I92. 9 whose novel Sons and Lovers . .. The quotation is: 'the sex instinct thatMiriam had over-refined for so long now grew particularly strong' D . H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913) (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966) p. 308. 'The Woman's Question' Pearson's essay is included in his volume The Ethics of Freethought (London, 1888); quotations are from p. 371. 10 'Socialism and Sex' in Pearson, The Ethics of Freethought; quotation from p. 445 . Notes 171 10 'But I want to return ...' William Morris, News From Nowhere (1891), in Three Works by William Morris (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1968) pp . 240-1 ; the reference to 'English and Jutish blood' is on p. 244 . 12 the medical journal ... The Lancet 7 November 1857, p. 478. Arthur Munby ... On Munby, see Michael Hiley, Victorian Work ing Women: Portraits From Life (London: Gordon Fraser, 1979); Munby's photographs and papers are in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. 13 'infamous conduct ..: cit. Norman E. Hines, Medical History of Contraception (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1936) p. 251; on birth control in this period, see Angus McLaren, Birth Control in Nineteenth Century England (London: Croom Helm, 1978). 14 'adding shilling . .' 'Walter', My Secret Life, abridged version edited by Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen as (inevitably) Walter the English Casanova (London: Polybooks, 1967) p. 238. 17 ' most women ...' William Acton, The Functions and D isorders of the Reproductive Organs (1857) 3rd edn (London, 1862) p. 101; for the 'society' slip, see 5th edn (London, 1871) p.115. 'the best mothers ...' ibid. (3rd edn) p. 102. III page 19 ' Debate in Congregation .. .' C. L. Dodgson, diary entry for 11 March 1884, The Diaries of Lewis Carrol! ed. R. L. Green (London: Cassell, 1953) vol. II p. 424. 'T he first is . .' Harold Merskey, The Analysis of Hysteria (London: Bailliere Tindall, 1979) p.131. 'the great similitude' / 'the difference .. .' Thomas Sydenham (writing in 1681), The Entire Works of Dr Thomas Sydenham (London, 1742) p. 368. 'upon the whole ...' Robert Whyn, Observations on the Nature, Causes and Cure of those disorders which have been commonly called Nervous, Hypochondriac or Hysteric (Edinburgh, 1765) p. 107. 172 The Sexual Fix 20 'hypochondria usually . .' E. F. Dubois, Histoirephilosophique de l'hypochondrie et del'hystirie (Paris, 1833) p.22. 'physicians have . .' Whytt, Observations, p. iii. 21 Lallemand Claude-Francois Lallemand, Des Pertesseminales inuolontaires (Paris 1836-42). 'the battle . .' J. L. Milton, 011thePathologyand TreatmentofSpermatorrhoea 12th edn (London, 1887) p. 5. 'the present state . .' ibid. p. 6. 'seminal emissions . .' ibid. p. 14. 'in men .. J ibid. p. 16. 'lads . .' ibid. p. 19. 'an emission .. .' / 'a very dangerous tenet' ibid. pp . 12-13. 'I am putting . ..' ibid. p. 30. 'will grapple . .' ibid. p, 30. 'epilepsy .. .' ibid. p. 33. 22 'it is useless . .' ibid. p. 161. 'urethral ring' / 'electric alarum' Laws Milton provides drawings of these rwo appliances (pp, 129 and 132), together with the name and address of a supplier. Nor is he alone in his various suggested remedies. Acton, for example, shows much of the same detailed obsessiveness and rigour:'I advise an early riser to take lodgings at Sr John's Wood and attend the Public Gymnasium at Primrose Hill from six to eight AM. After that hour the place is beset by small boys....' The Funaions andDisorders lst edn (London, 1857) p. SO;'walk four or six miles, in flannel waistcoat and drawers, two pairs of trousers. comforter, and two coats ; then comehome, lay under a feather-bed for an hour. and spongeover', ibid. p. 81. He is perhaps less inclined, however, to some of the more extreme mechanical treatments: 'Trouseau ... recommends an instrument to pass up the recrum to press on the vesiculae, and mechanically prevent the emissions. 1have tried the plan on one or rwo patients, but was obliged to leave it off, as 1 found that it produced considerable irritation', ibid. p. SO. Notes 173 22 "connexion has . ..' Laws Milton, On the Pathology, p. 174. ' He will go on . .' ibid . p. 29. 'the frame still . ..' ibid. p, 174. 23 'barristers ...' ibid. p. 173. 24 'Ch. I•• .' / 'Ch. III . .' John Davenport, Curiositates Eroticae Physiologiae (London, 1875) pp . ix, xii. The French epitaph mentioned, roughly translated, is as follows: 'I died oflove undertaken between the legs of a lady, happy to have lost my life in the same place where 1 was given it'; Davenport then goes on to add the appropriate Victorian gloss, 'the unfortunate story of a young man whose hand had been amputated, and who, when the cure was nearly, butnot quite, effected, having wished to embrace his wife, and being forbidden by the surgeon, had recourse to masturbation, and died four days afterwards', pp . 69-70. 25 'this supreme ...' 'Walter', My SecretLife, p. 234. 'his positive .. .' ibid. p. 236 (comment by editors Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen). 'we must steer clear .. .' Charles Kingsley, letter to J. S. Mill (1870), Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of H is L ife edited by His Wife (London, 1877) vol. up. 247. 26 'I was ready . .' / 'If you won't . .' / 'I was so . .' I 'The hysterical passion ...'/ 'Then . .' Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868), Penguin English Library edition (Har­ rnondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978) pp. 130,253,280,403,422. 27 'a green wom.an . .' Cf. N. P. Davies, The L ife of Wilkie Collins (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956) p. 4. ,As she laughed . ..' T . S. Eliot, 'Hysteria', Collected Poems 1909-1962 (London: Faber & Faber , 1963) p. 34. a very long history For an account of the history, see Ilza Veith, Hysteria: The History of a Disease (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1965). 28 'failure to recognize . .' E.M. Thornton, Hypnotism, Hysteria and Ep ilepsy: An Historical Synthesis (London: Heinemann, 1976) p. 115. 'a vigorous entity ...' Merskey, The Analysis of Hysteria, p. 234. 174 The Sexual Fix 28 'Hysteria: a condition ...' Brain Injuries Committee (Medical Research Council). War Memorandum No.4: A Glossary of Psychological Tams Commonly Used in Cases of Head Injury (1941). cit . Merskey. The Analysis of Hysteria p. 258 . 29 'the matrix or womb . ..' Plato. Timaeus § 91. Timaeus and Critias (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 1971) p. 120. 'an affect of the Mother ...' Edward Jorden, A Briefe Discourse of a Disease calledthe Suffocation of the Mother (London, 1603) pp . 5-6. 'the Vapours .. .. Joseph Addison, The Spectator no. 115 (12 July 1711). The Spectator ed. D . F. Bond (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965) vol. I p, 473 . Earlier that year (3 March), the journal had carried an advertisement for Bernard de Mande­ ville's'just published'Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysteric Passions, vulgarly calledthe Hypo in Men and Vapours in Women . 30 'hysteria. male and female' Kingsley,letterto J. S. Mill. p . 270 . 'emotion is . ..t Robett Brudenell Carter, On the Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria (London. 1853) p. 25. 'that protean disease ...' The Lancet 3 January 1891, p . 2; the lecture by Dr Robert Saundby was on 'Toxic Hysteria'. It can be noted that Sydenham in 1681 was already lamenting the difficulty of comprehending hysteria 'under any uniform appearance' , it confronting the physician with 'a kind of disorderly train of symptoms; so that 'tis a difficult task to write the history of this disease', The Entire Works p.
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