March 7, 2003
Knowing Thyself
A historian explains how the stigma of 'solitary sex' rose ... and fellIn the 14th century, in his fictional Hell, Dante Alighieri excruciated
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Colloquy Live: Read the transcript of a live, online discussion with Thomas W. Laqueur, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of
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