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In Manhood, Mels van Driel presents the history of the male sexual organ from medical, psychological and cultural perspectives. Investigating the penis and its functions, from the scrotum to the glans, van Driel's work ranges from inguinal hernia to infertility, and from impotence to the speed of ejaculation. Psychological factors that have an impact on sexual experience, as well as contemporary phenomena such as cyber sex, are given enlightening treatment along the way.

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9781861898661

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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

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Mels van Driel is a consultant urologist and sexologist at Groningen University Medical Centre in The Netherlands. He has written widely for scientific publications, newspapers and magazines, and is the author of Manhood: The Rise and Fall of the Penis (Reaktion, 2009).

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