This Amused Me Greatly

"Women were viewed as particularly susceptible to such excessive solitary pleasures capable of threatening social norms and modern ideals of the self. Dwelling in the pleasures of sensuous reading, readers were lost to the world, turned inwards towards their own desires and imagination and into immoderate pleasures. Hence it was not only the literary content but the intimate act of reading that was seen as a social peril."

I read that on page 146 of Porn.Com: Making Sense of Online Pornography edited by Feona Attwood, and thought the comparison of the solitary act of reading to masturbation was so wonderful that I needed to share.