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The Dissenter · 2025-09-29 · 86 min · 14,508 words

#1156 Eric Sprankle: The History and Science of Masturbation and Pornography

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Eric Sprenkel. He is a professor of clinical psychology at Minnesota State University, Mankaro. And today we're talking about his book The IY, The Wonderfully Weird History and Science of Masturbation.

So Dr. Sprenkel, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Yeah, my pleasure as well. Thanks for having me.

Okay, so I mean this is a very particular kind of topic, masturbation, but why did you feel the need to write a book about it? And what is basically the premise of your book? Sure, yeah. I I wasn't expecting to write this book. It wasn't like a

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