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The Joy of Self-Pleasuring: Why Feel Guilty About Feeling Good? By Edward L. Rowan. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2000, 226 pages. Paper, $19.00.

Masturbation as Means of Achieving Sexual Health. Edited by Walter O. Bockting and Eli Coleman. New York: Haworth, 2002, 147 pages. Paper, $17.95.

Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror. By Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck (Translated from the French by Kathryn A. Hoffmann). New York: Palgrave, 2001, 239 pages. Hardcover, $24.95.