What is nymphomania? Doctors in the 19th century treated it as an organic disease, while in the last century psychologists and psychoanalysts looked to low self-esteem or an unresolved Oedipal complex to explain it. This lively exploration looks at the idea of nymphomania since the early 1800s, and examines the sometimes surprising and ...
This lively and fascinating exploration of nymphomania as organic disease, psychological disorder, legal construct, and locker-room joke takes a look at the surprising, contradictory, and illuminating history of the subject over the last 200 years.
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