Esme Louise James
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 28 Mar
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It is such an incredible story and one that is such a good icebreaker at a party.
Now, Kellogg was a Seventh Day Adventist.
He had this idea of bodily pleasure being connected to sin.
And so one of his theories was that sugary, tasty food increased one's libido and made one quite horny and in need of a sexy hand.
Foods that were bland, on the other hand, could quench your need for sexual reprieve.
And was this based on any evidence at all?
Absolutely not.
It was based on his wishful thinking.
But that being said, do you know anyone who has ever felt turned on after eating a bowl of cornflakes?
I mean, no.
No, maybe there was some logic to it.
Corn Flakes, you know, caught on.
And I think that the success of Corn Flakes and the Kellogg's brand in general stands as testament to how widely publicized and popular methods of anti-masturbatory meals and methods were at the time.
It was something we were really concerned about.
It was seen as a social good.
It was something that you could pour your sexual energy into to stop you committing adultery.
If you go back to different civilisations all throughout history, like ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, masturbation wasn't just considered something that was normal, but it was actually considered a social good.
In places like ancient Greece, they had these conceptions that masturbation was something that we should practise because it was able to...
satisfy our sexual needs.
And if our sexual needs are satisfied with or without a partner, that would stop us doing things like committing adultery, which was something they were really trying to fight against at the time.
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