ONAN ESCHEWED - Rick Grunder

17 cm. 269, [8 (Physical Culture Supplement)], [21 (ads)] pp. + frontispiece
portrait of the author preceded by "Commendations from Eminent Men" (fifteen
of them, each with portrait on glossy paper) plus illustrated ad featuring Stall's
face in front of a world globe followed by seven facsimile pages - also on glossy
paper - showing pages from this book as they appear in various languages of the
world, including Japanese and three Indian scripts; followed by two additional
recommendations from men without portraits.
Binding as in the earlier edition above, but slightly better in condition. $25
— FOR What a Young Girl Ought to Know, etc., see items 115-118.
100 STEKEL, Wilhelm (1868-1940). THE HOMOSEXUAL NEUROSIS. By Dr. William
Stekel (Vienna). Authorized translation by James S[amuel]. Van Teslaar, M.D. Revised
Edition. Brooklyn, New York: Physicians and Surgeons Book Co., 1933 [c. 1922
by Physicians and Surgeons Book Co. Reprinted with corrections, March 1933].
21½ cm. 322 pp. Indices, pp. 319-22. Orig. maroon gilt-decorated cloth. A very
good, tight and generally bright copy. $45
OCLC shows 1922 editions in Boston, New York and Brooklyn, followed by
Brooklyn editions in 1933 and 1934, then several more editions through 1933,
followed by a reprint of the 1922 edition, in 2003 (Honolulu: University Press of
the Pacific).
MASTURBATION, pp. 16, 55, 64, 66, 155, 230 and 245. Composed primarily of case
histories, several of which include masturbation. One homosexual patient from
Denmark, aged 28, "regards his present condition a consequence of his
masturbation habit." (p. 230). Mrs. X, aged 26 and married for seven years, now
refuses sex with her husband, though she feels a certain sympathy for him. Her
entire sexual life goes no further, now, than kissing and petting other females.
The author also presumes it "Quite likely that she masturbates." (p. 16)
Mr. T. D., aged 26, "is attracted to old, gray-bearded men . . . ," p. 63. He was the
only son of a now-deceased, very kind father who played around with the female
servants after the mother died. "He began to masturbate at a very early age and
claims to have indulged in phantasies only about common men, imagining they
were handling his membrum virile." (p. 64). He was morbidly drawn to his
widowed father, whom he saw embracing the cook one day, and who, he heard,
would also crawl into the nurse's bed at times . . .
The father seemed to fear that the boy might fall into the women's hands and did
not delay warning his son with appropriate teachings. At 12 years of age his
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