最初係因爲覺得打飛機等於殺人/打飛機唔係vaginal sex 無助生殖所以違悖自然 之類嘅理由
話說記錯咗,本小冊子係18世紀出嘅
These three factions – medics, Puritans and the bourgeoisie – brought about radical new ideas about masturbation. Up until the discovery of the microscope by Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632– 1723), the aversion to masturbation and wasting seed was partly due to ignorance of the process of procreation. It was believed that tiny, fully formed humans were carried in the sperm. These cells in the form of humans were called homunculi. Any waste of the precious fluid was therefore tantamount to
homicide. With greater medical understanding of procreation, new ideas sprang forth as to why masturbation was dangerous, with medics now acting as the moral authorities.
A watershed came with the publication of a new book on masturbation, Onania; or, The Heinous Sin of Self-pollution, and All Its Frightful Consequences in Both Sexes (c. 1710). The author explained the cause of onanism, its consequences and its cure, and claimed that onanism could cause debilitating diseases, blindness and insanity. Written under anonymous authorship by ‘a clergyman’, it
revolutionized people’s perceptions about pleasuring themselves. Although it has been suggested that the author was one Dr Bekker, no one has ever identified such a person, although he was evidently well-read.20 Nor was he either ‘a clergyman’ or a medic; instead he was more than likely to have been a quack, given the amount of
advertisements for cures placed prominently in the book. John Marten has also been suggested as the author and this may well be the case, as Marten was not only a quack but had also written other books similar in style and content.21 Two medications in particular were proffered as cures, ‘a
strengthening tincture’ sold at ten shillings a bottle and a
‘Prolific powder’ for twelve shillings a bag, an extraor- dinary amount of money given that most labourers’ weekly wages were only a few shillings. These medicines promised to cure symptoms of gonorrhoea – gleets, oozings, sores, emissions – and all other manner of problems associated with the venereal disease, including ‘nocturnal effusions’.22
Source :The Pleasure’s All Mine A History of Perverse Sex p55-7