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Paula Bennett is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Vernon A. Rosario II is Instructor in the History of Science at Harvard College, and an M.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School.
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"Obviously auteroticism deserves to finally be seriously examined in today's climate of sex-related danger, and that end is accomplished very well in this text.."
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"The first anthology...that deals extensively with masturbation, "Solitary Pleasures keeps Routledge on the publishing cutting edge of contemporary avant garde social and cultural theory."
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