Bull Dyke

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 28 12:00:11 PST 2002


DHK wrote:


>http://www.angelfire.com/or/sociologyshop/MASTER.html
>Steps in overcoming Masturbation (Mormon Advice circa
>1970)

Actually that's not Mormon advice. The author of that screed, Mark Petersen, was some kind of Protestant fundamentalist who used to hang out in the University of Virginia medical library in the late 1970s, when I worked there as a grad student. He was trying to find scientific evidence that masturbation and nonmarital sex were harmful, and that the only acceptable kind was that sanctified by marriage. He made a big deal out of the fact that "testament" and "testicle" had common roots, though now I can't remember just what was so important about it.

Doug



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