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ISBN : 1861898665
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'[A] lighthearted gambol through the uses and abuses of the penis and its unjustly overlooked companion organs ... a marvellous read ... Manhood is an eccentric delight' - The Observer 'The tidbits of information [van Driel] has assembled are really rather wonderful' - Sunday Telegraph
About the Author
Mels van Driel is an urologist and sexologist at the University Medical Centre in
Groningen in the Netherlands. He has written widely for scientific publications, newspapers and magazines. Paul Vincent has been a translator from Dutch and German to English for the past twenty years.
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- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Reaktion Books; 1 Reprint edition (October 1, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1861898665
- ISBN-13: 978-1861898661
- Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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The book is indeed quite informed and well researched. Mels Van Driel seems to cover every ailment to the penis imaginable, from ED to prostate cancer. It covers misconceptions, current, as well as historical, about the penis and its ailments.
There is however, one bone of contentment (pardon the pun) that I have with Mels Van Driel, and that is his hesitance to discuss the foreskin, which is quite a substantial, healthy, and normal part of basic male anatomy. While other parts of the penis are given their proper respect, some even getting their own heading, the foreskin, it seems, is only mentioned as it pertains to possible illness and its treatment. For example, he only mentions the foreskin as it pertains to the accumulation of smegma, or the development of the rare, but real problem of phimosis. This is unfair, as one never begins to talk about toes, for example, as being susceptible to fungus and ingrown toe-nails. One never begins to talk about a woman's breasts as organs that are susceptible to breast cancer. The fact that the female vulva can accumulate smegma is not the first thing talked about when presenting female anatomy.
Van Driel does correctly state that phimosis is quite rare, and that the foreskin does not usually retract until later years. He further elaborates on the fact that circumcision is not medically necessary, and that it is for the most part, performed as a matter of custom or religious conviction. He gives a brief, but accurate account of the history of the medicalization of circumcision from the Victorian Era to today, but does not challenge some of the latest assertions, i.