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"Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were originally created by a doctor who believed bland food would reduce people’s urge to masturbate"
"Kellogg believed in foods that would not excite the passions. This meant vegetarianism. It also meant combatting what was considered the debilitating scourge of masturbation. As scholar Vern L. Bullough writes, Kellogg was an inheritor of the eighteenth century tradition which held that masturbation led to a host of ailments and then insanity."
"John Harvey Kellogg, meanwhile, opted for a less invasive remedy than, for example, the “special hobbles” designed to prevent girls from spreading their legs. Kellogg prescribed “biological living” and a bland diet including his special creation, corn flakes. His younger brother, W. K. Kellogg, was the one to mass produce, copyright, and market the doctor’s corn flake product (leaving out the original claim that it would curtail masturbation), creating the Kellogg’s brand we know today."
Read the whole history here: https://daily.jstor.org/the-strange-backstory-behind-your-breakfast-cereal/
Basically fucking up your hormones? Holy shit. And they called Goatis crazy for saying something similar about cereal.
"Kellogg believed in foods that would not excite the passions. This meant vegetarianism. It also meant combatting what was considered the debilitating scourge of masturbation. As scholar Vern L. Bullough writes, Kellogg was an inheritor of the eighteenth century tradition which held that masturbation led to a host of ailments and then insanity."
"John Harvey Kellogg, meanwhile, opted for a less invasive remedy than, for example, the “special hobbles” designed to prevent girls from spreading their legs. Kellogg prescribed “biological living” and a bland diet including his special creation, corn flakes. His younger brother, W. K. Kellogg, was the one to mass produce, copyright, and market the doctor’s corn flake product (leaving out the original claim that it would curtail masturbation), creating the Kellogg’s brand we know today."
Read the whole history here: https://daily.jstor.org/the-strange-backstory-behind-your-breakfast-cereal/
Basically fucking up your hormones? Holy shit. And they called Goatis crazy for saying something similar about cereal.
