The preventive obstacle; or, Conjugal onanism

{{Short description|Work by Louis François Étienne Bergere}}

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The preventive obstacle; or, Conjugal onanism is the English translation by P. De Marmon of the third French edition of Louis François Étienne Bergeret's book {{Lang|fr|Des Fraudes dans l'Accomplissement des Fonctions Generatrices}} (1868). It was published in 1870 by Turner and Mignard Printers and Publishers.{{cite journal |title=Book reviews |journal=Medical and Surgical Reporter |date=16 April 1870 |volume=22 |issue=16 |page=326 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjqgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR9 |location=Philadelphia |language=en}} In the book, Bergeret used his nineteenth century clinical case studies to demonstrate his anti-contraception beliefs and his theory that sexual excitement without conception was "fraud", which leads to uterine inflammation, "indirect infanticide", and various physical and psychological illnesses in women.{{cite journal |last1=Finn |first1=Michael |title=Female Sterilization and Artificial Insemination at the French Fin de Siècle: Facts and Fictions |journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality |date=2009 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=26–43 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20542716 |issn=1043-4070|url-access=subscription}}{{cite journal |last1=van de Walle |first1=Etienne |last2=De Luca |first2=Virginie |title=Birth Prevention in the American and French Fertility Transitions: Contrasts in Knowledge and Practice |journal=Population and Development Review |date=2006 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=529–555 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20058903 |issn=0098-7921|url-access=subscription}}{{cite book |last1=Smith-Rosenberg |first1=Caroll |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Uf5AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA25 |title=From Fair Sex to Feminism: Sport and the Socialization of Women in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Eras |last2=Rosenberg |first2=Charles |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-17570-2 |editor1-last=Mangan |editor1-first=J. A. |location=Abingdon, Oxon |page=25 |language=en |chapter=1.The female animal: medical and biological views of women and their role in nineteenth century America |editor2-last=Park |editor2-first=Roberta J.}} In 1874, the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London library ordered the book to be burned.{{cite journal |last1=Wade |first1=P. |title=The history and development of the Library of the Royal Society of Medicine |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine |date=August 1962 |volume=55 |issue=8 |pages=627–636 |pmid=14004280 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14004280/ |issn=0035-9157}}