       Document 0569
 DOCN  M9630569
 TI    Safe sex in the era of AIDS.
 DT    9603
 AU    Money J
 SO    Trends Health Care Law Ethics. 1995 Summer;10(3):27-33. Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/96088364
 AB    The term masturbation entered the English language in 1776 in the
       translation of Tissot's Treatise on the Diseases Produced by Onanism.
       Tissot linked semen conservation theory from antiquity with degeneracy
       theory and attributed degeneration and death from the social disease
       (syphilis and gonorrhea) to semen wastage not only in the social vice of
       promiscuity and prostitution, but also in the secret vice of
       masturbation. Nocturnal semen loss became designated as spermatorrhea, a
       new disease requiring treatment. In the nineteenth century the campaign
       against masturbation became a medical mania. It reached its apogee under
       John Harvey Kellogg, M.D., who invented Corn Flakes and other cereal and
       nut foods as meat substitutes to reduce all carnal desire and, hence,
       masturbation. The stigma on masturbation remains. It prohibits rational
       discourse on masturbation, and nourishes the perpetuation of fallacies
       regarding its effects. The imagery of a masturbation fantasy is also the
       imagery of the personal lovemap, which may be unorthodox, warped and
       distorted paraphilically. Masturbation might become societally endorsed
       as a public health policy to help contain the HIV epidemic of AIDS.
       Nonetheless, the President of the United States in 1995 dismissed his
       Surgeon General, Dr. Jocelyn Elders, for advocating so sane a policy.
 DE    Attitude to Health  Female  Health Policy  Homosexuality  Human  HIV
       Infections/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/TRANSMISSION  Male
       *Masturbation  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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