eastlondonseagull
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"Masturbation produces seminal weakness, impotence, dysury, tabes dorsalis, pulmonary consumption, dyspepsia, dimness of sight, vertigo, epilepsy, hypochondriasis, loss of memory, managlia, fatuity and death" - Dr Benjamin Rush, American physician, 1812
"Unless this abominable practice is abandoned, death follows" - Dr William Alcott, 1840
"A very large number of the lunatics in our asylums have made themselves mad by indulging in this vice, although at one point they were sensible, cheery boys like you. Just wash your parts in cool water and cool them down" - Baden Powell (of the Scouts)
"Those girls who practice it fail to develop as women. They become flat-chested and lose their female glow" - Professor Orson Fowler, 1870
"Capricious appetite, using tobacco and acne are signs of self-abuse. Circumcision on boys should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect on the mind" - Dr John Harvey Kellogg (of cereal fame)
Where did all this lunacy come from?
"Masturbation produces seminal weakness, impotence, dysury, tabes dorsalis, pulmonary consumption, dyspepsia, dimness of sight, vertigo, epilepsy, hypochondriasis, loss of memory, managlia, fatuity and death" - Dr Benjamin Rush, American physician, 1812
"Unless this abominable practice is abandoned, death follows" - Dr William Alcott, 1840
"A very large number of the lunatics in our asylums have made themselves mad by indulging in this vice, although at one point they were sensible, cheery boys like you. Just wash your parts in cool water and cool them down" - Baden Powell (of the Scouts)
"Those girls who practice it fail to develop as women. They become flat-chested and lose their female glow" - Professor Orson Fowler, 1870
"Capricious appetite, using tobacco and acne are signs of self-abuse. Circumcision on boys should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect on the mind" - Dr John Harvey Kellogg (of cereal fame)
Where did all this lunacy come from?
