Impotence

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ISBN: 9780226500935

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Impenetrable Penetrator

2. When "Desire Refuses Service": Impotence in the Christian West

3. The "Infirmity of Others": Laughing at Fumblers in Early Modern Europe

4. "Shameful to Wives, Ridiculous for Husbands, and Unworthy of Tribunals": Impotence in the Age of Reason

5. Neurasthenia, Decadence, and Nineteenth-Century Manhood

6. Marketing Manly Vigor: Victorian Medicine versus Quackery

7. Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes, and "the Love of Civilized Man"

8. Sex Glands, Rejuvenation, and Eugenics between the Wars

9. The "Impotence Boom": From Kinsey to Masters and Johnson

10. Viagra: Hard Science or Hard Sell?

Conclusion
Notes
Index