Tuesday, 22 February, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_cracker
The Graham cracker was originally marketed as "Dr. Graham's Honey Biskets" and was conceived of as a health food as part of the Graham Diet, a regimen to suppress what he considered unhealthy carnal urges, the source of many maladies according to Graham. Reverend Graham would often lecture about the adverse effects of masturbation or "self-abuse" as it was commonly called. One of his many theories was that one could curb one's sexual appetite by eating bland foods. Another man who held this belief was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of the Corn Flakes cereal.
2 comments:
I think both of these men were insufferably monodextrous. Thus they were angry at their lack of bidextral ability and made up lies about one of every man's favourite secretive past-times.
Having a tug every now and then is healthy and improves the sex drive. All eating bland foods might do is make semen more palatable for anyone into oral sex. Graham and Kellog were conservative, old codgers with coordination problems (see above).
I tell people that abstaining from sexual relations outside of a lifelong committed relationship is the best choice. I try to avoid getting into discussions about all the details. I think that there is still something to be said for privacy/ boundaries/ circumspect deportment when it comes to discussing sexuality.
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