A Surgical Temptation

Acknowledgments
Part I. The European Background
1. Introduction: The Willful Organ Meets Fantasy Surgery
2. The Best of Your Property: What a Boy Once Knew about Sex
3. Pathologizing Male Sexuality: The Masturbation Phobia and the Invention of Spermatorrhea
Part II. Medico-Moral Politics in Victorian Britain
4. The Shadow of Parson Malthus: Sexual Morals from the Georgians to the Edwardians
5. The Priests of the Body: Doctors and Disease in an Antisensual Age
6. A Source of Serious Mischief: William Acton and the Case against the Foreskin
7. A Compromising and Unpublishable Mutilation: Clitoridectomy and Circumcision in the 1860s
Part III. The Demonization of the Foreskin
8. One of the Most Grievous Diseases of Humanity: Spermatorrhea in British Medical Practice
9. The Besetting Trial of Our Boys: Finding a Cure for Masturbation
10. The Unyielding Tube of Flesh: The Rise and Fall of Congenital Phimosis
11. Prevention Is Better Than Cure: Sanitizing the Modern Body
12. The Purity Movement and the Social Evil: Circumcision as a Preventive of Syphilis
13. The Stigmata of a Gentleman: Circumcision and British Society
14. Conclusion: The End of the Culture of Abstinence
Notes
References
Index