"Although scores of books and hundreds of articles have been written on the subject of autoeroticism or masturbation, none of them has been definitive. Manfred DeMartino has now provided us with a definitive work on the subject. As author and compiler, DeMartino has gone through the existing significant information in this area extracting almost all the really important papers and chapters that have so far been published on autoeroticism and has beautifully woven them into a comprehensive volume. He has omitted virtually no notable aspect of this topic and has managed to include a marvelously representative selection of papers by an imposing array of authorities." -- foreword.