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The Disease of Masturbation: Values and the concept of Disease by Engelhardt
Englhardt’s article The Disease Of Masturbation is an example of the ways in which values impact society’s definition of disease. I agree that it is possible that science is being, or has been, limited by the values within society. For scien ....
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.... as blindness and vertigo. But how were these conclusions drawn? Were these conclusions scientific in nature or gathered according to the views
and values of the times? Masturbation was turned into a disease, not with just somatic,
but psychological dimensions.
Tissot states that masturbating is even more debilitating than sex because of a loss of seminal fluid (1oz equals 40oz of blood). When seminal loss takes place in a position other than the recumbent position the effects are multiplied. Tissot successfully establishes that masturbation is associated with physic ....
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