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How to Address the Masturbating Child – Nicholas Day – The Atlantic

The specter of masturbation had long haunted the authorities. For centuries, it had been linked to mental illness at worst and a sort of general dissipation at best. (It was draining, you see.) In 1760, the Swiss physician Samuel Auguste Tissot wrote the founding text of masturbation anxiety, the sky-is-falling opus L’Onanisme, in which self-stimulation

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