The Sexual Life of the Child
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The Sexual Life of the Child. Dr Albert Moll. 1912
This is an astonishing book which must have been years ahead of it’s time when it was published. I’d like to think it was one of those ‘dirty books’ surreptitiously passed around amongst the teenagers of the day because many of the boys would have been spared a great deal of mental anguish on hearing from an authoritative source that self abuse was practised by eighty to ninety percent of their number and it was the remainder who tended to suffer problems. A far cry from the sanctimonious “Advice for Boys” type of material with which they were routinely bombarded in those days!
This book is, of course, no more than an interesting historical document yet it’s difficult to find significant discrepancies between the theories propounded by Dr Moll and modern thinking. It makes one wonder what the researchers in this field have been doing for the past hundred years.
Simon Boyle, Lowestoft UK
This is an astonishing book which must have been years ahead of it’s time when it was published. I’d like to think it was one of those ‘dirty books’ surreptitiously passed around amongst the teenagers of the day because many of the boys would have been spared a great deal of mental anguish on hearing from an authoritative source that self abuse was practised by eighty to ninety percent of their number and it was the remainder who tended to suffer problems. A far cry from the sanctimonious “Advice for Boys” type of material with which they were routinely bombarded in those days!
This book is, of course, no more than an interesting historical document yet it’s difficult to find significant discrepancies between the theories propounded by Dr Moll and modern thinking. It makes one wonder what the researchers in this field have been doing for the past hundred years.
Simon Boyle, Lowestoft UK
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