John Harvey Kellogg -Ian
Here’s an older article I wrote about Kellogg and a link to a pdf of my primary source - Terrie
While the video may have given an exaggerated impression of Kellogg’s importance, it wasn’t wrong in the fact that circumcision became popular because it was supposed to cure masturbation - Dumbass (There seems to be some disagreement - I just read the segment Ian referred to on circinfo.net which states that the theory of circumcision preventing masturbation wasn’t a common reason for the procedure. However, according to Robert Darby writing in the Medical Journal of Australia, circumcision was widely recommended in mainstream pediatric manuals as a deterrent to masturbation until the 1950’s.)
