#Masturbation and “Social Hygiene” in 1922 » Sociological Images
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Today, we might not recognize that any of these recommendations had anything to do with sex. But in fact, they many of them were about masturbation. At this time, fewer physicians thought that it would cause madness, epilepsy, homosexuality, or gout, but they still believed that it would encourage depravity and a lack of self-discipline.