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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.
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]].
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.
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