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Solitary pleasures : the historical, literary, and artistic discourses of autoeroticism / edited by Paula Bennett, Vernon A. Rosario II.

Sex scandal : the private parts of Victorian fiction / William A. Cohen.

Keats, modesty and masturbation / Rachel Schulkins.

Masturbation, Little Suck-a-thumb and Struwwelpeter / by Diana Mason.

The secret vice : masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture / Diane Mason.

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Solitary pleasures : the historical, literary, and artistic discourses of autoeroticism / edited by Paula Bennett, Vernon A. Rosario II.

Sex scandal : the private parts of Victorian fiction / William A. Cohen.

Keats, modesty and masturbation / Rachel Schulkins.

Masturbation, Little Suck-a-thumb and Struwwelpeter / by Diana Mason.

The secret vice : masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture / Diane Mason.