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[[A Date with Rosie Palms|Masturbation]] portrayed as being bad for you, possibly making you go blind, go deaf, or grow hair on your palms. |
[[A Date with Rosie Palms|Masturbation]] portrayed as being bad for you, possibly making you go blind, go deaf, or grow hair on your palms. |
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Another supposed result of masturbation was that it would make you go mad, though there was at least some reason for thinking this; asylum doctors would notice that many mentally disturbed people masturbated a lot, and reasonably ([[Science Marches On|though incorrectly,]]) concluded that the madness was caused by masturbation. |
Another supposed result of masturbation was that it would make you go mad, though there was at least some reason for thinking this; asylum doctors would notice that many mentally disturbed people masturbated a lot, and reasonably ([[Science Marches On|though incorrectly,]]) concluded that [[False Cause|the madness was caused by masturbation]]. |
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Mostly a [[Discredited Trope]] we have [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions|outgrown]]. While certain Jewish and Christian groups still do frown on male masturbation because of the story of [[wikipedia:Onan|Onan]] in the Old Testament, the idea that masturbation could cause actual, physical harm came from [[Victorian Britain]] and the Second Great Awakening in the US. These were the days of [[Moral Guardians]] like U.S. postmaster Anthony Comstock and Boy Scouts founder Lord Baden-Powell, who believed that children indulging in "Secret Practices" would waste away their youth and vigor, and scores of ministers whose most lasting innovations in hygiene turned out to be [http://www.snopes.com/food/origins/grahamcrackers.asp Graham crackers] and Kellogg's Corn Flakes. |
Mostly a [[Discredited Trope]] we have [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions|outgrown]]. While certain Jewish and Christian groups still do frown on male masturbation because of the story of [[wikipedia:Onan|Onan]] in the Old Testament, the idea that masturbation could cause actual, physical harm came from [[Victorian Britain]] and the Second Great Awakening in the US. These were the days of [[Moral Guardians]] like U.S. postmaster Anthony Comstock and Boy Scouts founder Lord Baden-Powell, who believed that children indulging in "Secret Practices" would waste away their youth and vigor, and scores of ministers whose most lasting innovations in hygiene turned out to be [http://www.snopes.com/food/origins/grahamcrackers.asp Graham crackers] and Kellogg's Corn Flakes. |