I found this lecture, very, erm, strange. I never thought that id be sitting at Universtiy, learning about masturbation, even though when I spoke to my friends about it, they assumed it was a work shop about how to masturbate or tips and advice! That would have definatley been strange. Appart from the general nature of the lecture, the only thing that really made me alarmed was the lenghts that people would go to stop people from masturbating in previous years. From the Middle Ages on the conviction gradually grew that masturbation was very bad for a person’s health and wellbeing.
Hippocrates, a Greek physician regarded as the father of medicine, had believed that loss of semen would lead to spinal problems! His text was re-discovered in the Middle Ages. Medieval doctors also declared that seed was a powerful fluid and its loss weakened the body.
An anonymous pamphlet on ‘Onanism, i.e. the abhorrent sin of self-pollution’ in 1710 repeated and enlarged the supposed ills of wasting seed. It was an immediate bestseller, leading to 80 editions in many European languages.
A Swiss doctor called Tissot published in 1760 a booklet ‘Onanism - a Treatise on the Illnesses caused by Masturbation’. He enumerated as consequences: TB, loss of vision, digestive problems, impotence and madness. His views were soon accepted as established medical opinion.
In 1812 Benjamin Rush, the „father of american psychiatry”, attributed to masturbation: impotence, kidney failure, spinal cancer, lung cancer, indigestion, blindness, epilepsy, hypochondria, memory loss, prostate trouble, inner bleeding and death. Psychiatrists generally concurred, such as the leading Brit Maudsley who described the ‘illness’ in 1867 as moving through the stages of perversion of emotions and confusion of mind, to loss of intelligence, nightly hallucinations, homicidal and suicidal tendences, and finally total madn
http://www.thebodyissacred.org/body/sextouch.asp
Hippocrates, a Greek physician regarded as the father of medicine, had believed that loss of semen would lead to spinal problems! His text was re-discovered in the Middle Ages. Medieval doctors also declared that seed was a powerful fluid and its loss weakened the body.
An anonymous pamphlet on ‘Onanism, i.e. the abhorrent sin of self-pollution’ in 1710 repeated and enlarged the supposed ills of wasting seed. It was an immediate bestseller, leading to 80 editions in many European languages.
A Swiss doctor called Tissot published in 1760 a booklet ‘Onanism - a Treatise on the Illnesses caused by Masturbation’. He enumerated as consequences: TB, loss of vision, digestive problems, impotence and madness. His views were soon accepted as established medical opinion.
In 1812 Benjamin Rush, the „father of american psychiatry”, attributed to masturbation: impotence, kidney failure, spinal cancer, lung cancer, indigestion, blindness, epilepsy, hypochondria, memory loss, prostate trouble, inner bleeding and death. Psychiatrists generally concurred, such as the leading Brit Maudsley who described the ‘illness’ in 1867 as moving through the stages of perversion of emotions and confusion of mind, to loss of intelligence, nightly hallucinations, homicidal and suicidal tendences, and finally total madn
http://www.thebodyissacred.org/body/sextouch.asp
I cannot imagine how someone would be addmitted to have castrations etc… would they go to the doctor and say I have a problem I cannot stop knuckled shuffling? And then be addmitted to have their pride and joy removed? Or would there be a “Wankers Annoymous” where people would go to confess about their sin and then people would strap them down to be “delt with”. I was doing some research on the topic and found some interesting facts.
Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk'
Researchers were assessing prostate cancer risk
Men could reduce their risk of developing prostate cancer through regular masturbation, researchers suggest.
They say cancer-causing chemicals could build up in the prostate if men do not ejaculate regularly.
And they say sexual intercourse may not have the same protective effect because of the possibility of contracting a sexually transmitted infection, which could increase men's cancer risk.
Australian researchers questioned over 1,000 men who had developed prostate cancer and 1,250 who had not about their sexual habits.
They found those who had ejaculated the most between the ages of 20 and 50 were the least likely to develop the cancer.
The protective effect was greatest while the men were in their 20s.
Men who ejaculated more than five times a week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer later in life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3072021.stm
Masturbation 'cuts cancer risk'
Researchers were assessing prostate cancer risk
Men could reduce their risk of developing prostate cancer through regular masturbation, researchers suggest.
They say cancer-causing chemicals could build up in the prostate if men do not ejaculate regularly.
And they say sexual intercourse may not have the same protective effect because of the possibility of contracting a sexually transmitted infection, which could increase men's cancer risk.
Australian researchers questioned over 1,000 men who had developed prostate cancer and 1,250 who had not about their sexual habits.
They found those who had ejaculated the most between the ages of 20 and 50 were the least likely to develop the cancer.
The protective effect was greatest while the men were in their 20s.
Men who ejaculated more than five times a week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer later in life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3072021.stm
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