El onanismo de Tissot en España: economías espermáticas del cuerpo-nación en la censura monárquica del siglo dieciocho español.

When analyzing the 18th-century monarchic censorship of the Spanish translations of L'onanisme, written by Swiss doctor Samuel Tissot, a tension emerges between the doctors-censors and the doctors-translators because, while the first ones sought to regulate information and languages, the second ones promoted the dissemination of scientific texts on sexuality that would impact both the health of the citizens and of the nation as a whole. Regulating humors and specially semen became essential for an enlightened politics where religion, morality, hygiene, and public health were entangled. In this "spermatic economy," neither retention nor spillage were desirable; rather, a seminal regime guaranteed the moral, social, and economic health of the nation. Men and their semen became thus central for both the genetic and social reproduction of Spain, and for its economic productivity, as Spain sought to position itself in the European context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]