The Anxiety Makers
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'The Anxiety Makers' is a clear exposition of what happens when 'expertise in practical and verifiable matters is confused with expertise in conduct and morality'. The examples chosen are intercourse, masturbation, constipation, venereal disease and birth control. Comfort shows how, in the nineteenth century, many medical experts used their professional standing to propagate anxiety-loaded fantasies about bodily functions particularly sexuality and reproduction and in this way met the needs of a public cut off from traditional sources of ethical guidance by the enormous economic and technological changes taking place.
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