User:Ulyssethecat/John Marten

John Marten (ca. 1670-1737) was a British surgeon. He is the author of several books, including Gonosologium Novum: Or, A New System of all the Secret Infirmities and Diseases, Natural, Accidental, and Venereal in Men and Women and A Treatise of the Venereal Disease.

Recently, and most importantly, he has also been considered by several historians to be the author of Onania (1716), the first book entirely devoted to the issue of masturbation.

This attribution has however been contested by another historian, for the following reason.