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]

That is certainly a very weird blurb, since what happens with Onania-mania is that what used to be a sin becomes a medically-dangerous practice. It also gets a different publication date for The Big O than the book itself, which places it about a decade earlier as I recall!