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Old books had a lot to say about masturbation, and most of it was terrible. I find the worst of it and post it here.

There will never be porn on this account.
#historyofsex

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New upload: "The Royal Road to Hell" (1899)
https://archive.org/details/royal-road-to-hell

In which Melville C. Keith, MD, gives his opinions about how you can go to hell. Mostly, it's by having sex. Throughout the book he uses the metaphor of a road, or a railroad, which takes people to hell by persuading them that it's all right to have sex occasionally.

On page 130 he notes that some people think he's a crank.

Sections:

  1. What is a road?

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  1. The exact location of hell.
    About Onan. (He goes on to call him Captain Onan in later chapters, which is splendid.)

  2. The earliest travel on this road.
    Early in life, not in human history. The author is incensed that children are aware of their own bodies.

  3. Conditions of travel over this road.
    There are enlarged engravings of the sperm of various mammals.

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  1. A pass or a ticket.
    Having a "ticket" to hell means having sex outside marriage, or masturbating, or having marital sex using contraception. Having a "pass" to hell means being married and not having sex. I don't understand this bit.

  2. Personal condition of passengers.
    Mostly ranting about masturbation. This is only about men; the women are in the next chapter.

  3. Lady passengers.
    Having orgasms without contact with semen causes cancer. With anatomical diagrams.

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  1. Vestibuled, national, limited flyer.
    Explains why Turkish people will be extinct by 1900.

  2. An open switch. Coffee and tobacco will send you to hell.

  3. The general superintendent of this road. Spoiler: it's Satan.

solitaryvirtue,
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  1. In hell. It's all to do with Nimrod (the biblical character), who brought evil sex into the world, and by the way he was Black. Of course. The rather unhinged sketches of red blood cells on pp143-144 are especially worth a look.

If any of you can transcribe them, let me know.

  1. Out of the belly of hell. And in case you're on the road to hell, this chapter gives you advice on how to get off.

/end

A diseased blood cell. It's like the previous one except misshapen and scribbled all over. One of the pie segments says "Hog Fat".

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Found in an old medical thesaurus:

MASTURBATION. See also Defilement, Pollution.

Synonyms: Edeogargalismus, Ductio præputii, Manustupration, Confrication, Mentulomania.

  • one who practises m.: Masturbator; Mascarpio.
  • female who practises m.: Confricatrix.

https://archive.org/details/thesaurusofmedic00bartuoft/page/300/mode/2up

@sexuality

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"Touching... causes an irritation which leads to a few moments of agreeable physical excitement, but ends with a nervous attack which is very dangerous...

Leading those nerves to fits of sexual excitement means ruining health altogether. The girl involuntarily shows strange tastes and habits which are always a clear indication of her base yearnings." (1905)

https://archive.org/details/b28091103/page/98/mode/2up

#masturbationIsNotBadOrWrong #masturbation #badAdvice

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"...the boy who does not know of the danger often will begin to rub the organ ; this increases the irritation, causes a few minutes of agreeable physical excitement and often ends with a nervous attack which is accompanied with a few drops of fluid bursting from the seminal ducts. But this fluid does not contain any semen as yet, and this act is not in the least “ manly,” but dangerous and degrading.”

https://archive.org/details/b28091103/page/102/mode/2up

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This account is a feed of scans of pre-1920s books giving terrible advice about masturbation.

Back when Twitter was a thing, and this account was on there, we had a lot of followers who were academic historians of sexuality.

I don't know where to find them here. Can @academiccommunity suggest anything? Thank you.

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@SharkAttak @academiccommunity Oh, I did, but the trouble with Twitter is that your followers don't necessarily see what you post. So if you just say "goodbye, please follow me on fedi", many of your followers might not even notice you'd gone.

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Illustration of the devil's work from "Diabolico foutro-manie" by Achille Devéria, 1835.

solitaryvirtue,
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@alda @vagina_museum see what it does to your eyesight? /j

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Hello new users! I post excerpts from old books that say silly things about masturbation. That's all.

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