Our first president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, otherwise great and wise philosopher, warns very severely in his books about education against what he calls "an evil young boys in highschools seem to have got addicted to lately". The same, even more severe tone is used in August Stringberg´s autobiography, where the young man narrates about his fear of rotting and untimely death due to the contemporary belief that a man committing masturbation would die in few years in a very disgusting way. I wonder where did they find proof for such statements, as if they were true, I think at least one half of population would vanish from Earth just in one year.
I believe the former common distate against masturbation is actually biblical - as in Bible Onan, a husband of his deceased brother´s wife Tamar, indulges in such practics rather than conceiving Tamar with a child which would be according to law considered his brother´s, and for the killing of his potential children and unwillingness to do his dead brother a favour he is punished by God and dies. A Christian that used his energy to pleasure himself/herself instead of spending it on producing new generation was a sinner according to Church, almost as big sinner as someone who went through artificial abortion. Incredible as it might sound in 21st century, such opinions are still prevailing in certain groups of people, particularly above 50 years of age or very religious. Let´s just hope they didn´t do to their children what their parents did to them - crippled them with their narrow-minded belief.
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