Anti-masturbation

Brutal and Zany Anti-Gooning Devices of Olden Times – Wtf Gallery | eBaum’s World

Back in the Victorian era, masturbation used to be a horrific sin instead of just a way to spend a lazy Sunday. But try as they might, people couldn’t stop others from jerking it with simple words alone. Thus, many brilliant inventors in the late 19th and early 20th century patented and built various insane […]

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Message to Christine O’Donnell: Hands off my hobby. – By Joel Stein – Slate Magazine

Though O’Donnell has been ridiculed for her prudishness, I actually think she’s right. Masturbation is bad for marriage. Our pornified, DIY sex culture leads to husbands who would rather go to their man-cave for an hour than attempt to negotiate intimacy with their wives—especially because many of those wives aren’t Asian. Just like we’d be

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Start here for an overview of concepts & science | Your Brain On Porn

Can masturbation play a role in this addiction? Of course, but masturbation is not required. That said, frequent ejaculation in animals leads to several brain changes that inhibit dopamine, and thus libido, for several days. Under normal circumstances, sexual satiety (defined differently for each species) leads to males taking a time out from sexual activity.

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Looking Back- The solitary vice

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

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Sexuality & Modernity- Victorian Sexuality

Sexuality & Modernity- Victorian Sexuality … Masturbation or what was termed the “solitary vice” or “onanism” emerged as a veritable epidemic, especially amongst children. This forms the core around which the modern child becomes engulfed in what might termed the sexualisation of modern society. A medical and moral campaign was waged around the sexuality of

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Self-Abuse and the Origin of Masturbation Myths

A historical review of masturbation myths … Thomas Laqueur traces the negative attitudes about masturbation to the following text in his book Solitary Sex: Cultural History of Masturbation. In 1712, an anonymous physician published a text called “Onania” or, The Heinous Sin of Self Pollution, and all its Frightful Consequences which warned about the dangers

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Chronic Masturbation

Let’s start by defining what makes one a chronic masturbator. Chronic masturbation means masturbating multiple times a day, every day, month after month. The man who masturbates daily, or even twice a day, is not a chronic masturbator. A man who occasionally masturbates a half a dozen times a day is also not doing it

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Anti-Masturbation Technology – Femdom Chastity

– 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,

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