Esme Louise James

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All In The Mind · The psychology of masturbation · 28 Mar 2026 podcast

Welcome to Kinky History.

Let's discuss the history of giving head.

And of course, we can never have a conversation about the history of sex without mentioning ancient Greece.

The same thing goes in cultures from ancient Samaria, for example, and they believe that practicing self-pleasure would increase your sexual potency.

So the more often that you are able to masturbate, the more likely you were to be fertile and be able to have children.

So there was this idea of masturbation being a very healthy part of the human experience, which we now know from scientific studies today is entirely accurate.

So when and why did it start to become a taboo?

So the war on masturbation, if we had to give it a set date, is in 1712.

This is when we have a publication called Onea, the heinous sin of self-pollution comes out.

Now, in this fantastic publication written by a pseudo surgeon, as we now call him.

This was a guy named John Martin and he was an Englishman.

We basically have this treatise basically saying that masturbation is everything wrong with humankind.

It is the thing that can make you go blind.

That was a huge concern in the early modern period that you could go blind.

It's also believed to give you epilepsy, give you cancer, just anything that could possibly go wrong.

Masturbation is the cause of it.

And when this comes out, it really causes a lot of a stir, even though the rest of what this surgeon did in his life has been widely discredited.

This is one thing that we just took away from the whole endeavor.

And this publication led to the rise of other publications discussing the sinfulness of masturbation.

The idea of body being connected to sin is something that we see through the last thousand years of human history.

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