more extensive and unaffected pleasure

[lotesse]

Why, when discussing eighteenth-nineteenth(twentieth-)century anti-novel rhetoric, does no one address the discursive parallels with injunctions against onanism/masturbation? (and does anyone know of a book that does? because I would totally read that book.)

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[oursin]

I was pretty sure that the late, great Roy Porter had written on the subject, but given how prolific he was, not precisely where. I have ascertained that there is a chapter on enlightenment masturbation phobia in The Facts of Life which may give refs to articles etc; plus, he may well have revisited in his work on the English enlightenment.