Ideas: from book of bad taste or romance blah from Kings of England.
Dating at the turn of the century...last century. Weird stuff that people did back in the day.
Kellogg and his silly masturbation stuff. Tales from the prairie, old timey people getting freaky. Or, alternately, how about list of silly sexual abstaining. Kellogg, weird cults from back in the day
Abstinence:
Kellogg and Graham: beginning of 20th century
betcha didn't know that your favorite cereal or cracker was originally created to deter folks from sex, or more specifically, masturbation.
Kellogg: was a staunch supporter of extreme abstinence and by that I mean he was also very much against masturbation.
Was a doctor of ??? ran a sanitarium that advocated holistic methods of healing, largely by the utilization of enemas--and lots of them. He also had some pretty legitimate theories about how things like a healthy diet can have a large effect on how one feels. But who cares about that. In addition to administering frequent enemas to patients, Kellogg would then have them eat a bunch of yogurt, using half their ration to administer yogurt enemas. Kellogg was very much against masturbation. He even made claims that masturbation was a direct cause of death. Graham and Kellogg both felt that a bland diet would help stave off those pesky sexual feelings and both recommended using their food creations as anti-lust snacks. Graham had the same point of view and suggested that people cut out as much fat, meat and of course seasonings as possible in order to curb sexual feelings. This is why he created the ubiquitous and well-known cracker. Little did he know that one day the ultra-sultry s'more would be invented, reducing his vision to crumbs.
Wacky anti-sex group # 2: late 1700's
The Shakers were descendants of the Quakers. Like the Quakers, they eschewed the fancy life, preferring to live plain and simply. Paradoxically, they had the wildest, most inhibition-free rituals of all Christian religions. They were called Shakers because they would go crazy during ritual, screaming gibberish, twitching and flailing about, reveling in mindless ecstasy. Possibly the most extreme of all abstinence advocates, the Shakers were not just against recreational sex but procreation itself, a large deviation from most religiously based abstinence ideals. They just didn't have sex...at all...never. Of course, masturbation was similarly reviled but I imagine that it was widely practiced anyhow.
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ReplyDeleteWe modern folk tend to think that our generation invented everything, from kinky sex, to drugs, to rock and roll. We are then shocked to discover that many things we thought were pioneered in the 20th century have been around for ages. Abstinence seems to have come up a lot in recent years, mostly in the context of arguments about abstinence-only education. Many people feel this is taking it too far, but here are a few people who took the idea of abstinence to ludicrous levels.