Women’s solo sex can be taboo even today. But in 17th century England it featured in many texts from poetry to medical books, suggesting knowledge or even acceptance of female self-pleasure.
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It is normal for girls and women to masturbate, and there are even health benefits.
When translating The 120 Days of Sodom, we had a duty to be just as rude, crude, and revolting as Sade.
Vibrators have been causing a buzz for as long as they’ve existed: sometimes this happens behind closed doors, and sometimes in the public sphere. But as the new film Hysteria shows, there’s still fascination…
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Visiting Scientist of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
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Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney
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McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne