Masturbation and morality

[miriam_e]

Weird, isn't it, how common morality can get it so wrong.

Recent research points to the conclusion that masturbation in males is beneficial. It correlates with lower incidence of prostate cancer. Yet religions and codes of morality generally condemn it as despicable, or dirty, or leading to mental illness. Mr Kellog developed his breakfast cereals as a way to battle masturbation which was thought to lead to mental degeneration and insanity. We can laugh about that now, but at the time they were deadly serious. The bible is insanely obsessive about masturbation being evil. Even today you can find people who put boxing gloves on their children to prevent them masturbating. That likely retards their manual skills, perhaps for the rest of their lives. And now would appear to render them liable to prostate cancer in their later years. The younger years seem to be the most crucial time for the protective effect of masturbation.

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[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I kid you not. Kellog did present his breakfast cereals as a solution to the danger of masturbation. I first read about it in a very, very, old medical book. I think it was published back in the 1800s. Don't know if I still have that book... I think it became part of my ex-girlfriend's collection when we split up. We are still friends, so if she still has it I can look it up again. But it is common knowledge that Kellog was praised at the time for his efforts to prevent masturbation. Kellog and a lot of the medical community at that time were major weirdos who left a lot of nasty taints in society.

http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~iwoolf/txt/discovery/cornflakes.txt
might freak you out a bit, but is interesting (and at times hysterically funny) reading. Google will find lots more pages.