I'll never look at a box of corn flakes the same again ...

>From one of the comments:

"The anti-mastubation views were popular in the 1800s and right up to the
mid 1900s - it was widely accepted that mastubation or 'nocternal emission'
caused dystrophy, blindness, weakening of immunity, insanity and paralysis.
It was a view promoted by Kelloggs (Better known for inventing a new
corn-based breakfast cereal), the inventor of some of the anti-mastubation
tools and promotor of all others - he was a most dedicated crusader against
the dangers of mastubation, and particually important in returning
circumcision (Previously very rare in the US) to commonplace by promoting it
as a preventative measure - circumcise your child and it would become more
difficult for them to mastubate, thus protecting them from all the
above-listed illnesses. What loving parent could turn that down? While
Kelloggs was one of the most enthusiastic, the mastubation-causes-illness
story was perpetuated by just about every doctor - in large part because no
'respectable' doctor would dare to investigate scientifically any matter of
human sexuality until Kinsey came along - while his research methods were
far from perfect, his lack of respect for taboos was key in opening human
sexuality issues up to scientific investigation. These investigations later
determined that almost everything known to medical science about sex in
general and espicially about mastubation was wrong."


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