Anti-sex and Anti-masturbation positions

Kellogg, an advocate of sexual abstinence, devoted large amounts of his educational and medical work to discouraging sexual activity, on the basis of dangers both real - as in sexually transmissible diseases - and purported. He outlined his views on the subject in his book, initially titled Plain Facts about Sexual Life. Kellogg's book was published in various editions in the late 19th Century, later retitled to Plain Facts for Old and Young. Some of his work on diet was influenced by his belief that a plain and healthy diet, with only two meals a day, among other things, would reduce sexual feelings. Those experiencing temptation were to avoid stimulating food and drinks, and eat very little meat, if any. Kellogg also advocated hydrotherapy and stressed the importance of keeping the colon clean through yogurt enemas.

"Warfare with passion"

He warned that many types of sexual activity, including many ?excesses? that couples could be guilty of within marriage, were against nature, and therefore, extremely unhealthy. He drew on the warnings of William Acton and expressed support for the work of Anthony Comstock. He appears to have gone beyond his own advice, since though he and his wife were married for over forty years, they never had sexual intercourse and had separate bedrooms all their lives. It has been suggested he worked on Plain Facts on their honeymoon.

He was an especially zealous campaigner against masturbation; this was an orthodox view during his lifetime, especially the earlier part. Kellogg was able to draw upon many medical sources who made claims such as that "neither the plague, nor war, nor small-pox, nor similar diseases, have produced results so disastrous to humanity as the pernicious habit of onanism," credited to one Dr. Alan Clarke. Kellogg strongly warned against the habit in his own words, claiming of masturbation-related deaths "such a victim literally dies by his own hand," among other condemnations. He felt that masturbation destroyed not only physical and mental health, but the moral health of individuals as well. Kellogg also believed the practice of "solitary-vice" caused cancer of the womb, urinary diseases, nocturnal emissions, impotence, epilepsy, insanity, and mental and physical debility. Kellogg was the first to mention the psychological role in producing insanity. Most of the degeneration supposedly induced was mental, and blindness was seldom if ever mentioned.

So the moral of the story is DON'T eat KELLOGS CORNFLAKES

If you want to read his book, and it is a good laugh; Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943.. "Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life."

It is at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/KelPlai.html

masturbation causes "nocturnal emissions" ????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I would have NEVER guessed! Emissions out of where???

Yes, the Kellog brothers were strange, strange men. Even better than that:

Kellogg was outspoken on his beliefs on race and segregation, in spite of the fact that he himself adopted a number of black children. In 1906, Kellogg founded?together with Irving Fisher and Charles Davenport?the Race Betterment Foundation, which became a major center of the new eugenics movement (a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention) in America. Kellogg was in favor of racial segregation and believed that immigrants and non-whites would damage the gene pool.

Granted, but he was actually a Surgeon??

Yeah, he "operated" on a poor belief system.