I never really understood any of the restrictions against
   masturbation. I mean, it's not something for public. Maybe it's
   related to the myth of childhood and innocence and stuff? How
   can a politician say "What about the children?" when little
   johnny is a peeping tom? Eh, never made sense to me. Always
   seemed to be a matter of social control, whatever the
   over-riding excuse ==   --- For whatever flaws it may have in
   some of the info, I LOVE Wikipedia for the "related" links: it
   always eventually gets me to the thing I'm really looking
   for.Well, it was all part of something even LARGER than the
   religious pressure: The Clean Living movements, some of them
   which continue today, were sweeping the USA, and today,, just
   like then, people will grab hold of ANYTHING that they think
   will make them healthier.
   [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_living_movement === ugh
   I saw Eugenics in there. I cringe everytime I think of Eugenics.
   They had it all logically figured out. All scientific. All made
   perfect science. Racist at its core, unethical, anti human...
   and it was RIGHT HERE in this country I was born in, and not all
   that long ago in our history. Freakin' embarrassing to me. ===
   Oh agreed. I also get peeved with... oh what is it called... I
   think it's evolutionary psychology. I'm forgetting the name. But
   it's the one that spawned ridiculous things like alpha male and
   stuff. It came out in the early 70s, was everywhere in the 80s
   in "how to succeed in business" books all through to today.. and
   it's a bunch of BS. ==   "Be an alpha male to attract women
   because women are attracted to the pack leader" - all that shit.
   ugh, and idiots keep believing it. === I remember that one.
   That's when I took notice and was like, "I like that Amanda
   person"... I've been hearing that crap since I was a kid in the
   80s and instead of it going away, it got worse and worse and
   worse... both men and women alike were using to justify some
   really STUPID ideas... groups were using it to promote their
   agendas, all believing that "Science had their backs". I mean,
   it's not that we can't draw SOME parallels between animal
   behavior and human behaviors: Of course we can. But EvoPsych
   just takes it WAY too far... trying to stretch back to our
   evolutionary roots to not only try to EXPLAIN 'why' we do what
   we do" but THEN to try to JUSTIFY IT? ... and people believe it.
   -- I think it's primarily been used as a tool for academic,
   typically white males to justify misogyny and racism. Other
   groups have used it too for their own purposes, but when
   prominent science educators start spewing this crap it just
   makes me feel like I'm stuck somewhere in the 19th century
   wondering where my century went. -- My hatred of it is because
   I'm a fan of Science generally and when I see people utilizing
   scientific methodologies to justify stupid shit (whatever that
   stupid shit is - and social darwinism DEFINITELY qualifies as
   stupid shit), I get angry. Science is supposed to check their
   agendas out at the door of the lab, not use the lab as a
   magnifying glass for their own prejudices. == That really gets
   me riled up. I stopped watching the Science channel 3 years ago
   (I was devoted to it for a long time - eating it all up) when I
   started seeing this "movement" infiltrating it. The tone changed
   from "Hey, here's a cool thing you might not know" into SCIENCE
   KNOWS ALL. Education turned into evangelism. They went from
   Advocacy into Politics and drawing up us/them lines, welcoming
   the splitting up of families over these things, drawing recruits
   in from the young to overthrow the old regime of ... whatever. I
   don't like it. I like Science but I don't "fucking love
   Science". I want it to lead us into the future but not by
   becoming a political movement. I suppose it always was a bit of
   a political movement - right from the 19th century ... but I
   feel like they've picked up some 19th century weapons and
   they're fighting with them, using 21st century media to do so.
   ==

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