MEDICALIZATION OF MASTURBATION TRAVELS EAST: A Serbian Case Study
The literature on the medicalization of masturbation has been mostly limited to the study of the rise of this phenomenon in Western Europe and the United States. In this paper I will expand this theoretical framework east and present the case study of a publication on anti-masturbation from an Eastern European country, Serbia, from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.The reason for looking at a non western case study is to question to what extent the theoretical framework for understanding the medicalization in the west is applicable to examples from the east.
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