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 […]
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Fellow TravelersThe 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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Information and AdviceSexuality & 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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Information and AdviceConcerning Specific Forms of Masturbation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A book by Wilhelm Reich The way people masturbate indicative of sexual potency Reich’s work with patients at the clinic was often related to problems of diminished sexual potency, or impotence. He therefore decided to look closer at such factors as (1) where do they
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Information and AdviceA 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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News and Humor– 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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Information and Advicefrom Rousseau and Masturbation : Philosophical Misadventures Jean-Jacques Rousseau, champion of the Enlightenment, was on a mission to see that young men were protected from their base instincts: “Whatever we may do, a young man’s worst enemy is himself, and this is an enemy we cannot avoid”, he warned … Therefore, watch carefully over the
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Masturbator Mish-MashThe 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