Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction xi
6. 1 The Impenetrable Penetrator: Manhood in Greece and Rome 1
7. 2. When “Desire Refuses Service”: Impotence in the Christian West 25
8. 3. The “Infirmity of Others”: Laughing at Fumblers in Early Modern Europe 50
9. 4. “Shameful to Wives, Ridiculous for Husbands, and Unworthy of Tribunals”: Impotence in the Age of Reason 77
10. 5. Neurasthenia, Decadence, and Nineteenth-Century Manhood 101
11. 6. Marketing Manly Vigor: Victorian Medicine versus Quackery 126
12. 7. Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes, and “the Love of Civilized Man” 149
13. 8. Sex Glands, Rejuvenation, and Eugenics between the Wars 181
14. 9. The “Impotence Boom”: From Kinsey to Masters and Johnson 208
15. 10. Viagra: Hard Science or Hard Sell? 235
16. Conclusion 263
17. Notes 267
18. Index 319