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Samuel-Auguste Tissot

Swiss physician (1728-1797)

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Dec 13, 2025
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Masturbation drives to blindness or to any other view diminuition ?

The long-running claim that masturbation causes blindness is a myth with no broad scientific support; multiple contemporary medical and sex‑health sources state clearly that masturbation does not lead...

Nov 20, 2025
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Which 18th–19th century physicians promoted circumcision to prevent masturbation and why?

A cluster of 18th– and especially 19th‑century physicians and medical writers promoted circumcision as a remedy to what they regarded as the medical and moral crisis of masturbation; notable names and...