Unusual, Strange & Weird Oddities

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The inside of the leaning Tower of Pisa (Italy)

 

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Switzerland: Bomb Shelter Turned Hotel

 

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Unusual Shooting Range in Switzerland



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World’s Largest Model Railway

 

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Graves on Airport Runways

 

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What Soldiers Carried To Battlefield Through The Ages

 

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25 Haunting Shipwrecks Around the World

 

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20 locations of "Breaking Bad" in real life

 

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Finding the locations of popular movie scenes

 

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Finding the locations of famous album covers

 

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The bunker underneath a house in Las Vegas

 

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Eye charts for airplanes

 

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The famous bearded Lady of Taon-les-Vosge

Clementine Clatteaux Delait, the Famous Bearded Lady of Taon-les-Vosges

 

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Found the skeleton of King Richard III

 

[gorgik9]

I'm afraid that this post comes close to reproducing the myth that the big masturbation scare emerged in Victorian age - which is certainly not the case. Victoria was born in 1819 and became Queen of Great Britain in 1837; to place something that emerged more than 100 years before Victoria was even born in "the Victorian Age" is just ridiculous - but it's still pretty common to blame all kinds of European sexophobia on the old royal teapot. Not fair :no:

No, we know very well when the big masturbation scare emerged and what kickstarted it: A booklet sold in the London bookmarket in the first quarter of the 18th century - that's in the early Enlightenment period.

The booklet was titled Onania; or, The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution and its first edition was probably printed and sold somewhere in the interval 1708-1716. It seems impossible to be more precise since the first edition still existing in British libraries is the 4th.

Anyway! "Onania" became an instant commercial success, getting printed and published in dozens of subsequent new editions and you could still buy a fresh printed copy of this booklet in London in the 1750s.

In 1760 all of Europe got a new authority telling them how dangerous onanism was: This new authority was Swiss, born in Grancy in kanton Vaud, and named S.A.A.D. Tissot (1728-1797), physician and the writer of L'Onanisme published in 1760.

Oueen Victoria wasn't even born when dr. Tissot passed away in 1797.

 

[golfdelta21]

I'm afraid that this post comes close to reproducing the myth that the big masturbation scare emerged in Victorian age - which is certainly not the case. Victoria was born in 1819 and became Queen of Great Britain in 1837; to place something that emerged more than 100 years before Victoria was even born in "the Victorian Age" is just ridiculous - but it's still pretty common to blame all kinds of European sexophobia on the old royal teapot. Not fair :no:

No, we know very well when the big masturbation scare emerged and what kickstarted it: A booklet sold in the London bookmarket in the first quarter of the 18th century - that's in the early Enlightenment period.

The booklet was titled Onania; or, The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution and its first edition was probably printed and sold somewhere in the interval 1708-1716. It seems impossible to be more precise since the first edition still existing in British libraries is the 4th.

Anyway! "Onania" became an instant commercial success, getting printed and published in dozens of subsequent new editions and you could still buy a fresh printed copy of this booklet in London in the 1750s.

In 1760 all of Europe got a new authority telling them how dangerous onanism was: This new authority was Swiss, born in Grancy in kanton Vaud, and named S.A.A.D. Tissot (1728-1797), physician and the writer of L'Onanisme published in 1760.

Oueen Victoria wasn't even born when dr. Tissot passed away in 1797.

You are right in saying that as early as the 18th century, the demonisation of masturbation began. However, I do not think that the title of the article is wrong, as it limits itself to showing the anti-masturbatory techniques used in the second half of the 19th century in Great Britain, and therefore in the middle of the Victorian Era

 

[gorgik9]

You are right in saying that as early as the 18th century, the demonisation of masturbation began. However, I do not think that the title of the article is wrong, as it limits itself to showing the anti-masturbatory techniques used in the second half of the 19th century in Great Britain, and therefore in the middle of the Victorian Era

I guess I could say just about the same: The title and the text of this article is mostly correct. But - and this is the main reason why I wrote my post at all - since neither the text nor the title mentions in a single word that this had already been going on for generations, you get a pretty questionable perspective on this historical phenomenon in its totality.

Excepting the anti-masturbatory gadgets using electricity (which of course were late 19th century things) hardly any device, thingy or potion used in the 1860s hadn't already been manufactured (in slightly different versions), sold, bought and used by Europeans and Americans for a hundred years.

 

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The Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel fully digitized



link to the codex
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=arundel_ms_263_f001r

 

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A Library opens in China with space for 1.2m titles

 

[gorgik9]

@ golfdelta

Thanks for this great post about the Chinese library! Really fascinating!