A review by opaque_coucher
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag

4.0

"To describe a phenomenon as a cancer is an incitement to violence. The use of cancer in political discourse encourages fatalism and justified 'severe' measure-- as well as strongly reinforcing the widespread notion that the disease is necessarily fatal. The concept of disease is never innocent. But it could be argued that the cancer metaphors are in themselves implicitly genocidal. "

..."D.H. Lawrence called masturbation 'the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization.'":p