PSYC 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Labia Minora, Palpitations, Missionary Position
12 Sep 2016
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Just because it is statistically normal does not mean that everyone engages in the behavior or even approves of it. Believed that masturbation was harmful to men"s physical health, causing spinal weakness and eventually death. Condemned male masturbation as a waste of yang (male essence: hebrews. Considered it spilling seed and punishable by death: early roman catholic church. Procreation was the only purpose of sex. Masturbation and other sexual behaviors were seen immoral. Thomas aquinas included masturbation as 1 of 4 unnatural acts: the word masturbation. Tubare- to disturb: swiss physician s. tissot. Book onania- a treatise upon the disorders produced by masturbation. Claimed that the unnatural loss of semen and overexertion of the nervous system led to mental disease: north american joseph howe. Masturbation is a universal vice in civilized countries. Documented the maladies that would bedevil masturbating men. Spinal cord tumors, brain hemorrhage, cerebral anemia (softening of the brain)
