Don’t Dyb Dyb Dyb with Your Dob Dob Dob
“Lord Baden-Powell wanted to include advice on the dangers of ’self abuse’ in his book of ground rules for boys in the Scout movement. The original manuscript of Scouting for Boys contained two pages of warnings as to how masturbation could lead to heart problems, diseases which rotted away men’s mouths, noses and eyes, render the male sex organs useless and even lead to insanity. Almost 100 years ago, he wrote: ‘A very large number of the lunatics on our asylums have made themselves ill by indulging in this vice although at one time they were sensible cheery boys like you.’ Researchers have discovered the deleted passages which will be reinstated when the book is re-published next week.” — Daily Sun (UK)
Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in England in 1907. Apparently he believed frank speech was necessary to straighten out the fey youth of the day, which is why he tried to warn young men that masturbation would make them “weak and nervous and shy.” It would also lead to headaches, “palpitation of the heart,” and if the wanker “carries it on too far he very often goes out of his mind and becomes an idiot.” Naturally you wonder what his scientific evidence was for a few of these points, especially since recent news is that masturbation can help prevent prostate cancer. Be that as it may, the passages on masturbation were deleted from the original Scout manual not for their lack of scientific credibility but for their frankness and candor.
It’s fascinating to see how times do — or don’t — change, since you can compare this story to numerous others debating sex education today. For example, currently there is a brouhaha in Texas because the local Planned Parenthood was handing out literature dealing with homosexuality, condoms and masturbation to the local Girl Scouts troop. Parents were outraged, some calling it “soft porn,” others pulling their daughters out of the local troop. Consequently, educators there are facing the same sort of censorship issues that resulted in the “editing” of Baden-Powell’s first scout manual. Evidently it must still be about 1907 in Texas.
Where would i be able to purchase this book? Do you kbnow of any other publications one could purchase with advice against masturbation?
Adam (how fitting), try The Bible.
O, no, that’s onanism, quite a different matter.
Is it masturbation if you don’t use your hands? a rubber pussy? A “fleshlight”?
http://www.fleshlight.com/main/
Grant Stoddard recently reviewed a sex doll at Nerve.com (now gone premium)
http://www.nerve.com/Regulars/ididitforscience/SexDoll/
I wonder what Baden-Powell would think about modern masturbatory technology — the wanker.
The article says the new scout manual is coming out next week. However, it doesn’t appear to be on either amazon.com or amazon.co.uk. (However, amazon.com has a lot of other books by and about Baden-Powell.) Maybe you have to be a boy scout to get it?
Also, there is a fascinating article about Baden-Powell at:
http://slate.msn.com/id/33821/
Here’s an excerpt:
Although Baden-Powell himself never landed in court, he was certainly a strange man. He was obsessed with boys and “boyology.” The index of Tim Jeal’s excellent biography Baden-Powell speaks of his “aesthetic and sexual interest in men,” “pre-marital celibacy,” “dreams of young men,” and “anxieties over sexuality.” He got married, at 55, to (as Jeal put it) “a sporting girl whose interest in outdoor comradeship seemed at least as great as her desire for sexual fulfillment,” and he even managed to beget three children. But thereafter he always slept out on his balcony (and this in the English climate) rather than in the marriage bed.
The boyscouts and so many other people in the past discussed many physiological dangers of masturbation because they frowned upon it because attitudes weren’t as opened. No research was done because no one did it in general, so everyone thought it was physiologically harmful. I do agree though about doing it “too much” and causing a lack of social activity. If it occupies much of a person’s time, they don’t think of much else and don’t try to socialize. Also, if these people do get to score, the orgasm won’t be as big if it would have been otherwise if masturbation is done “too much”.
It almost sounds like it could be a type of song:
“♪Don’t Dyb Dyb Dyb with your Dob Dob Dob ♪â€
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