Some of his theories were ahead of their time like linking fatty meats to heart disease, but he was a lolcow. Some other things were how he believed that his honeymoon was "a great time to write a book" and during the last years of his life he liked to go around outside in his thong and be senile.John Harvey Kellogg.
Yes, THAT Kellogg. Brother of Will Keith Kellogg, John Harvey Kellogg was a man of, shall we say, unusual appetites.
A doctor, he had a difference of opinion with the 19th century medical establishment on one very important question. That question was masturbation. While most 19th century physicians decried it, to JHK it was the worst thing ever - and this was the century that invented machines to prevent teenage boys from shaking milky coconuts from the pearly love tree at night, horrifying contraptions involving spikes, bells, pieces of string and pulleys attached to wrists, and so forth. JHK believed that wanking kills. Literally. He wrote that it not only sent you blind, but also caused you to go insane, gave you epilepsy, and gave you cancer. He believed it was the worst thing ever and called it "self abuse."
He proclaimed he and his brother's corn flakes (yes, those corn flakes) as an antidote to masturbation. I think the idea was that by chewing a load of tasteless cardboard mush you couldn't entertain lustful thoughts. However, he also prescribed rather sterner remedies for masturbation, such as circumcision without anaesthetic (the latter being the most important part, because having your prepuce whipped off was a salutary reminder of what not to do), and sewing the hog's eye shut with a purse-string suture made of silver.
For women who wanked he would apply phenol to their clitoris. Or just chop it off entirely.
One cannot say he didn't practice what he preached. Not only did he not wank, but he also never actually consummated his own marriage, preferring to instead put his cock in his wife but then leave it there for a bit without attempting to pop.
John Harvey Kellogg.
Yes, THAT Kellogg. Brother of Will Keith Kellogg, John Harvey Kellogg was a man of, shall we say, unusual appetites.
A doctor, he had a difference of opinion with the 19th century medical establishment on one very important question. That question was masturbation. While most 19th century physicians decried it, to JHK it was the worst thing ever - and this was the century that invented machines to prevent teenage boys from shaking milky coconuts from the pearly love tree at night, horrifying contraptions involving spikes, bells, pieces of string and pulleys attached to wrists, and so forth. JHK believed that wanking kills. Literally. He wrote that it not only sent you blind, but also caused you to go insane, gave you epilepsy, and gave you cancer. He believed it was the worst thing ever and called it "self abuse."
He proclaimed he and his brother's corn flakes (yes, those corn flakes) as an antidote to masturbation. I think the idea was that by chewing a load of tasteless cardboard mush you couldn't entertain lustful thoughts. However, he also prescribed rather sterner remedies for masturbation, such as circumcision without anaesthetic (the latter being the most important part, because having your prepuce whipped off was a salutary reminder of what not to do), and sewing the hog's eye shut with a purse-string suture made of silver.
For women who wanked he would apply phenol to their clitoris. Or just chop it off entirely.
One cannot say he didn't practice what he preached. Not only did he not wank, but he also never actually consummated his own marriage, preferring to instead put his cock in his wife but then leave it there for a bit without attempting to pop.
Wilhelm Reich.
An early follower of Freudian psychoanalysis, he took Freud's theory that everything psychiatric was sexual in origin, and ran with it. And ran, and ran, and careered gloriously off the end of the pier with it.
After doing experiments where he attached a multimeter to various womens' clitorises, he decided that this was proof that sexual repression was the worst thing ever. Also, because this was the 1920s and 1930s, he retrofitted Freud with Marx and decided that the dialectic involved free sex for everyone. Yes, even teenagers. He would encourage teenagers to fuck each other wild with abandon and insisted on massaging them naked, because this was apparently good for them psychiatrically.
During the war he moved to the US and decided that he could harness "orgone" - a form of energy caused by sexual activity. Once again, proven by multimetering people's genitals. He developed a machine called an Orgone Accumulator which was a wood and metal box in which you sat to gather orgone energy from around you. He also believed that by firing this orgone energy into the clouds he could manipulate the weather.
Needless to say, the FDA didn't agree with him on this, and in a gross fit of indulgence in America's favourite game, kick the autistic, they seized all his orgone accumulators because he was a massive fraud.
Oh yes. That thing about massaging children naked as psychotherapy? That got him and his followers arrested for child molestation.
Fuckin' Jews, man.
