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The God of Erections – The HaPenis Project

Min is the Egyptian god of fertility, harvest, and masculinity. He was often depicted as a bearded man with an erect penis, standing with his legs together and an erection raised in his right hand. The god’s erect penis, was a potent emblem of generative power, underscoring the essential connection between sexuality and life force

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Masturbator Mish-Mash

A Brief History of Masturbation | Psychology Today

Masturbation (onanism) is the stimulation, often manual, of the genitals for sexual gratification. Masturbation is depicted in prehistoric cave paintings and has been observed in many animal species. In Egyptian myth, the god Atum created the universe by masturbating, and every year the pharaoh ritually masturbated into the Nile. In certain traditional societies, masturbation is

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Historical masturbators

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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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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Concerning Specific Forms of Masturbation

Concerning 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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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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