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The Destroying Angel
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A study of the historical genesis and present-day persistence of antisexualism in American healthcare and social/legal policy.
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I think the title is most fitting--most of these "quacks" were "destroying angels"[ the fact that kellogg had a medical degree makes no difference in my opinion].The title is apt-there is a "destroying angel" mushroom that is highly poisonous-as we know, mushrooms release spores-which disperse-as do ideas. The cost in human misery with regard to quack theories on human sexuality from the 1800s right up until just past the middle of the 1900's chills the blood when you ponder it. I think if these guys had not presumed to speak about sex [which i suspect was born of their own severe sexual dysfunction-Dr. Kellogg was never sexually active and never engaged in sexual activity with his wife-he even avoided it on his wedding night to write-see where the wife's sexual ignorance and inexperience with social interaction with the opposite sex led her? to a dysfunctional creep of a husband!] and had stuck to their basic dietary information we could, looking back in time, have more respect for them. I suspect that most of their obsession with something they ostensibly abhorred and [as with Dr. Kellogg, had no experience of-however his passion for enemas SEVERAL TIMES A DAY was pretty suspect] were pretty much ignorant about was a red flag-they were not nearly so healthy in mind and body as they would have had others believe-the mental energy they spent on trying to criminalize sex and masturbation was abnormal and i don't think, as someone of my era, that i would really trust anyone like that. A lot of formerinternet pornography addicts, however, do say that they have re-established normal dynamics socially and romantically once they are cured...however I tend to think the stark loneliness of the classic "solitary activity" as practiced then would naturally compel people to want to eventually have real sexual contact-it's rather hard to be but so preoccupied with your own efforts if you will be attracted to the opposite sex anyway=as most adolescents were and are.I think alot of the parental obsession over masturbation was a fear that children can't be lied to about the subject of sex when they have explored at least their own bodies; also i think parents worried that the "arranged match" which was still in vogue would be a lot less popular with children who could detect dysfunction in a chosen mate by virtue of their own self-knowledge. There was also a secret fear that they could not impose their control over children who were sexually aware=it's hard to continue to treat a child like a baby if they are sexually awakened-which is not to say that sexual experience can suddenly make you a responsible adult, but any misrepresentation of married life with a spouse is a lot harder to perpetrate with a child who is more aware.I think these were the major concerns of parents of that era. All of the nonsense about the physical disability caused by masturbation was deliberate quackery and was known by these health advocates to have no basis in fact-they found it lucrative to pretend to cure it because masturbation is natural-it's like scratching or sneezing or producing earwax or salivating-you can't "get rid of" these things, but i suppose it was easy in that era to criminalize natural behaviour [which won't go away-imagine someone trying to make you stop producting saliva!] and then to obtain money holding out a false hope constantly of curing something that does not need to be cured-the literature for such "cures" would then always earn a mint because they would play upon parents' refusal to accept sexuality in their children and,in not thinking rationally but rather emotionally about such things,parents would not even wish to understand that you can't remove behaviours that "Mother Nature" took millions of years to set in place. One of the most ironic things about reading this whole book was-i Hate graham crackers, and cornflakes used to give me painful gas in the mornings before school when i was a kid-the ONLY cereals i could eat without that effect were whole wheat products-wheatena as opposed to cream of wheat [cream of wheat REALLY smells BAD] wheat chex, shredded wheat, wheaties and grape nuts [which were wheat-based]-and then oatmeal- were the only ones that went down well-i did fine with anything EXCEPT cereals with a CORN base-as an adult, i grew to like granolas and muesli. Whoever thought a key lime pie tasted good with a graham cracker crust was nuts-it ruins the taste of all the other ingredients! i would rather have a regular pie crust. This sick puritanical thinking that sex is some evil that interferes in one's life and that spices in foods [which have saved humans untold mountains of intestinal woe due to parasites and food spoilage which most spices were depended upon from antiquity to reduce or remove] and savory flavors cause degeneracy...well, as i have always said, if you want to find the nearest pervert, just look for your friendly neighborhood prude-they are usually the same person!
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ISBN:
9780879752774
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
04/01/1985
Publisher:
Prometheus Books
Language:
English
Pages:
213
Height:
.91IN
Width:
6.36IN
Thickness:
.91 in.
LCCN:
84043104
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1985
Series Volume:
GS7
UPC Code:
2800879752776
Author:
John Money
Subject:
Sexual deviation
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Sex (Biology) -- Nutritional aspects -- History.
Subject:
Sex customs -- History.
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Sexual ethics
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Sex instruction
Subject:
History
Subject:
Sex
Subject:
Paraphilias.
Subject:
Sex customs
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Sex (psychology)
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Masturbation
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