This novel is of some significance in the field of the Golden Age mystery because of its treatment of a sexual theme, that of nymphomania.
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Luis de Ayala and Minister Marfori are said to have had intimate relations with the Queen, which is wholly possible due to her alleged nymphomania.
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As the stage queen, Isabel Mortimer ( who alternates with Fiona Chadwick ) exudes both superciliousness and a sly breathlessness that goes with her implied nymphomania.
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As for " Women in Revolt " _ well, nymphomania, frigidity and incest are central themes . . $ 19.98 each.
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Nymphomania's Crystal Ball comes to terms of helping her to regain her beauty, only if she receives sixty-nine orgasms during sexual intercourse.
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In the West, doctors amputated clitorises and ovaries in the 19th century as a treatment for epilepsy, hysteria, lesbianism, masturbation, melancholia and nymphomania.
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The crowd-appalled by Nymphomania's ugliness-boo away the witch, before Lulu the obese tightrope-walker soon causes the whole circus to collapse.
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But the 1899 edition of the Merck Manual, a reference guide for physicians, lists massage as a treatment for hysteria ( as well as sulfuric acid for nymphomania ).
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Nymphomania eventually reaches her sixty-ninth orgasm, she transforms into her beautiful form again-this time-without changing back, and Little Dick becomes a handsome prince.
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The second-most discussed issue behind food is sex, with Gussow describing in his review how Old Woman believes " that nymphomania may be her mania of choice ".
