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“A Remedy for Masturbation Almost Always Successful in Small Boys: Circumcision” | Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross

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The true origins of circumcise are seemingly lost in antiquity, although many theories exist. However, in America, non-religious circumcision became popularized only in the mid-1800s during the highly puritanical Victorian era. Although there are many ideas as to why the practice is done today, the original motivation was to prevent children from masturbating (which was called self-abuse at the time, due to the belief that it caused disease, insanity and death).

via “A Remedy for Masturbation Almost Always Successful in Small Boys: Circumcision” | Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross.

History of Masturbation

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THE HISTORY OF MASTURBATION

While there are no direct references to masturbation in cave paintings or other prehistoric artifacts, the practice of masturbation by Bonobo chimpanzees, which share 98.4% percent of our DNA, provides some confirmation that masturbation has likely been practiced since the dawn of mankind.

The Ancient World

In the ancient world, depictions of male masturbation are relatively common.  The Egyptians, for example, celebrated masturbation as the process by which the sun god, Atum, created the first Adam and Eve equivalents, Shu and Tefnut.  “With the hand of God, Atun masturbated and brought forth the first pair of souls.”

The Sumerians, who invented the first written Western language, make reference to the Mesopotamian god Enki masturbating, his ejaculation filling the Tigris River with flowing water……

via History of Masturbation.

5 Anti-Masturbation Devices That Will Haunt Your Dreams | Gay Blog | Gay News

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A boner with too much time on its little boner hands (with boner fingers, natch) is the devil’s playground, my grandmother used to say. Or something like that. Hell, I was too busy masturbating to really pay much attention.

Anti-masturbation was big business for much of the early 20th century. Real talk, it was practically the oil industry of the era. But which products ruled the market with a spiked-palm, iron fist?

Pube plucking got me lookin’ so crazy right now.

The Bowen Device

“This device was like a cup that was placed over the head of the penis and attached to pubic hair by chains and clips. When the wearer got an erection, the pubic hair would be plucked painfully and the wearer would have to respond.”

via 5 Anti-Masturbation Devices That Will Haunt Your Dreams | Gay Blog | Gay News.

Ancient Methods Modern Aids part 1

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The practise of punishing the perpetrator of the act of masturbation is one that can be traced in documented form to the time of the Roman Empire. The matriarchal society that was a feature of Roman life, tended to view male masturbation as an unwelcome, undesirable act, directly affecting procreation, so important to the future of the Empire.

During the first century AD, Christianity defined the act as a ‘Mortal Sin’ and the spread of Christianity brought with it the firm belief that self-abuse should be strongly discouraged in a Christian household. Even today the Catholic Church still categorises self-abuse as a ‘venal and mortal sin’.

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That then is the view of God and the punishments distributed by Priests throughout history have been many and varied. In Ireland boys were regularly caned and whipped in addition to more normal religious impositions. Irish parents thrashed their male offspring when evidence of self-abuse was discovered, and the same scenario is echoed through many other countries of the Catholic world.

What emerges from this investigation is the surprising fact that punishments for masturbation have changed very little over the years and, moreover, that it has been predominantly the female in the household who has been more tasked to seek out and deal with the male self-abuser.

Punishment for self-abuse was at its height during the Victorian era and much of it was delivered by the Nanny, Governess or indeed by other female members of the household staff. In most cases the females were spinsters of mature age and the possibility of their being somewhat disenchanted or even unaware of sexual pleasures, only serves to explain their particular preference in dealing with young male abusers in their charge by means of potions, restraints and canes.

more at Ancient Methods Modern Aids part 1.

The Masturbation Gap | Psychology Today

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Through the 19th century, the assault on “self-abuse” continued: Reverend Sylvester Graham invented the Graham crackers to curb sexual impulses. In the 1830s, Benjamin Rush, renowned physician and signer of the declaration of Independence, argued that masturbation caused tuberculosis, memory loss, and epilepsy. JH Kellogg, turn of the century medical writer and creator of breakfast cereal, believed signs of masturbation included acne, weak back, and convulsions. Noted 19th century physician and early sex research pioneer Richard von Krafft Ebing linked masturbation to homosexuality and other types of what he considered deviance and illnesses.

via The Masturbation Gap | Psychology Today.

Historical masturbators

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a masturbator wrote this fanciful history:

Through History with J. Wesley Smith_, for the majority of you who

are too young to remember, was a weekly cartoon by Burr Shafer that
appeared in _The Saturday Evening Post_ in the 1950′s. Each week it
had some satirical take on a well-known historical event to which the
character, J. Wesley Smith was inevitably witness. For example,
there’s one where JWS exhorts his ship-mates with, “The order is full
speed ahead — and you should have heard what Admiral Farragut said
about the torpedos!”

I shall now exhort you with _Through History with J. Wanker Smith_. Continue reading →

Looking Back- The solitary vice

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The superstition that masturbation could cause mental illness

… Far more treacherous was the “solitary vice,” masturbation, which had been thought of as somewhat less rousing than the real thing. Graham, however, pointed out that as a solitary activity, the practice of masturbation was likely to start at an earlier age and to occur more often than partnered sex. Most important, the lack of a partner meant resorting to fantasy and the conjuring of erotic scenes and lewd images that surely stirred the brain to a fever pitch. (By this analysis, lusting in the heart was physiologically equivalent to lusting in the flesh.) Because the brain’s inflamed state could be transmitted to any organ or tissue of the body through the nervous system, all manner of disease could follow. But with sexual solitaire, the climax—rather the culmination—was insanity. “This general mental decay,” Graham warned, “continues with the continued abuses, till the wretched transgressor sinks into a miserable fatuity, and finally becomes a confirmed and degraded idiot, whose deeply sunken and vacant glassy eye, and livid, shriveled countenance, and ulcerous, toothless gums, and fetid breath, and feeble broken voice, and emaciated and dwarfish and crooked body, and almost hairless head—covered, perhaps, with suppurating blisters and running sores—denote a premature old age—a blighted body—and a ruined soul!” ….

Looking Back- The solitary vice

Anti-Masturbation Technology – Femdom Chastity

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- Anti-Masturbation Technology – Femdom Chastity

 

In the course of the 19th century, more and more doctors linked masturbation to severe mental illness. As explained in 1867 by Henry Maudsley, the greatest British psychiatrist of his time, masturbatory insanity was “characterized by … extreme perversion of feeling and corresponding derangement of thought, in earlier stages, and later by failure of intelligence, nocturnal hallucinations, and suicidal and homicidal propensities.” In other words, masturbators were mad potential killers, and it seemed only prudent to have them locked up in an asylum.

To make matters worse, in its later stages the disease was considered incurable. All medical science could really do was to concentrate on the prevention and early detection of the disease. Parents were therefore advised to tie the hands of their children to the sides of the bed, or to make them wear mittens spiked with iron thorns. Special bandages and “chastity belts” were to render the sex organs inaccessible. Doctors with a knack for mechanics invented ingenious contraptions that would “protect” people from “abusing themselves”. Finally, if everything else failed, surgery was recommended. The most popular surgical treatments were infibulation for males (i.e., putting a metal ring through the foreskin, thus preventing an erection) and clitoridectomy for females (i.e., cutting out the clitoris). However, cauterization and denervation of the sex organs and even castration were sometimes also deemed necessary.

Needless to say, all of these mechanical devices and surgical procedures constantly focused attention on the sex organs and their functions. Thus, it became nearly impossible for the “patients” to forget their “problem” even for a moment. Small wonder, then, that for many the concern with masturbation turned into a complete obsession.

American science fights the evils of masturbation and onanism

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Electrosex chastity and an early version of the points of intrigue:

… The inside of the tube had a kind of plunger device that mechanically detected tumescence and then could trigger a couple of responses, an alarm bell for one and the other, Todd wrote, was an electric current “strong enough to assist the cure of sexual disease.”

The truly deluxe version additionally included sharp-edged, metallic points that Mr. Todd said were “of sufficient length to cause considerable annoyance and pain to the patient should any attempt be made to manipulate the penis by means of the tube.”

 

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