All this writing about deterrents brought Menninger to the topic of masturbation.\u00a0 The history of attitudes towards masturbation parallels the disappearance of \u201csin\u201d and the criminalization of \u201csin\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 1716 book, Onania, or The Heinous Sin of Self-Poll<\/em>ution, went through 80 editions.\u00a0 Publications decrying masturbation were published all the way to Tissot in 1901.\u00a0 Freud viewed it as an addiction, second only to \u201csmoking\u201d.\u00a0 Ok, maybe \u201csmoking\u201d was the second (31-36).<\/p>\n Yet, after the turn of the 20th<\/sup> century, this ancient taboo \u2013 \u201cthe sin of youth\u201d \u2013 suddenly seemed no longer sinful, no longer dangerous, and no longer a vice.<\/p>\n \u201cThis sudden metamorphosis in an almost universal social attitude is more significant of the changed temper, philosophy, and morality of the twentieth century than all other phenomenon that comes to mind (36).\u201d<\/p>\n Menninger wondered (36) whether the fall of this taboo was the \u201ccause\u201d for the upcoming disregard for all \u201csin\u201d, asking \u201cCan all sin have been repudiated as such because one behavior once considered evil is now no longer condemned? (37).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All this writing about deterrents brought Menninger to the topic of masturbation.\u00a0 The history of attitudes towards masturbation parallels the disappearance of \u201csin\u201d and the criminalization of \u201csin\u201d. The 1716 book, Onania, or The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, went through 80 editions.\u00a0 Publications decrying masturbation were published all the way to Tissot in 1901.\u00a0 Freud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n