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Corn Flakes Were Invented as Part of an Anti-Masturbation Crusade
Posted on 3/13/14 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 3/13/14 at 2:03 pm
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Western world worked itself up into a mass hissy fit over the idea of people touching themselves. Judeo-Christian tradition had already been damning masturbation as a misuse of sexuality for ages, but Victorian era prudishness and the Great Awakening and other religious revivals in America created a perfect storm for people to really get obsessed with it.
Books like the anonymously authored Ononia: Or the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, and all its Frightful Consequences... and Samuel Tissot's Treatise on the Diseases Produced by Onanism [masturbation] laid the groundwork for medicalizing “the solitary vice.” Soon, masturbation was no longer just a moral failing, but also a physical and mental ailment that required treatment and cures.
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In the young United States, one of the most ardent anti-masturbaters was a Michigan physician named John Harvey Kellogg. The good doctor was a bit uncomfortable about sex, thinking it detrimental to physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. He personally abstained from it, and never consummated his marriage (and may have actually spent his honeymoon working on one of his anti-sex books). He and his wife kept separate bedrooms and adopted all of their children.
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Posted on 3/13/14 at 2:04 pm to iliveinabox
Road to Wellville is a great documentary.
Posted on 3/13/14 at 2:04 pm to iliveinabox
Hmm. Weird. Corn Flakes make me horny.
Posted on 3/13/14 at 2:08 pm to iliveinabox
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John Harvey Kellogg.
Real life Sheldon.
Posted on 3/13/14 at 2:09 pm to iliveinabox
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Corn Flakes Were Invented by a gay guy
FIFY
Posted on 3/13/14 at 2:10 pm to iliveinabox
Your link is misleading. Anthony Hopkins invented Corn Flakes.
Posted on 3/13/14 at 2:12 pm to iliveinabox
The only thing I got out of this was that James Harvey Kellogg was a closeted homosexual
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