08-21-2019, 10:51 AM
CEREAL MASTURBATION
Were Corn Flakes part of some strange anti-masturbation campaign?
It is no secret that masturbation was a serious taboo in the 18th and 19th centuries. Books highlighted the moral failings of a person who masturbated, others believed masturbation was a physical and mental illness that needed to be treated.
more:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/hi...ation.aspx
Were Corn Flakes part of some strange anti-masturbation campaign?
It is no secret that masturbation was a serious taboo in the 18th and 19th centuries. Books highlighted the moral failings of a person who masturbated, others believed masturbation was a physical and mental illness that needed to be treated.
This anti-masturbation movement was taken to extremes, particularly in America, where one of the most passionate anti-masturbation campaigners, a Michigan-based physician by the name of John Harvey Kellogg, dedicated his life to encouraging abstinence.
Dr Kellogg believed so fervently that sex was vexatious for the spirit and body that he never engaged in sexual intercourse with his wife, even opting to have two different rooms in their shared house and adopted all of his children.more:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/hi...ation.aspx