Do you think people in the 1800s masturbated or do you think it’s a relatively recent development?

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0112358 · Accepted Answer

People have been masturbating forever and there’s a lot of artistic evidence and discussion in texts of masturbation in Ancient Greece and Sumeria for instance.

The late 1800s was likely a low time for masturbation - not to say lots of people weren’t, but there was a major anti masturbation push, blaming all sorts of maladies on masturbation. The most famous of the doctors behind the push was none other than Dr. Kellogg. Corn flakes was intended to be less testosterone boosting than more traditional breakfasts. And Kellogg was also one of the main doctors behind the push for routine male circumcision in the USA which finally took off in the early 20th century. The goal of circumcision the time was to make masturbation more difficult for boys. It didn’t work particularly well!

wankiam · Accepted Answer

i think they did and even to the point where victorian male doctors had electrical sex toys to relieve stress in female patients... i just think it was all a lot more taboo back then and infact in the time i have been alive i have seen social attitudes change myself

kittycat119 · Accepted Answer

Yes lol. You can even find super old dildos made way back. And I mean they even had doctors dedicated to fingering women who where deamed hysterical lol

ushagomez · Accepted Answer

People have always masturbated. It is normal and natural.

AustinMan · Answer

Are you serious? People have been masturbating as long as there have been people.

Red_Arrow · Answer

I think people masturbated since they found that they could make the genitals feel good with touches, as in forever.

MissChasityL · Answer

Of course they did

Shahax · Answer

They dug up a mummified corpse from a volcanoe eruption of a guy who was jerking it, masturbation is in the bible. It's been around for a long time

abc3643 · Answer

Humans and our ancestors have been masturbating for the last billion years. Unfortunately, T-Rex had a rough time...

theharlequin · Answer

They’ve done it since the beginning of humanity

Paige90 · Answer

Everyone does it and people have done it since the beginning of history

Dargil · Answer

Monkeys masturbate.

KMeyers88 · Answer

I’m sure they did

AndrewMG · Answer

This guy was pumping it over 2000 years ago... and caught in fossils, so there's your answer

13Dante1313 · Answer

People definitely masturbated then. People have been masturbating for as long as sex has been around

hafinjun · Answer

I'm sure you've read about all those hairy palmed blind guys in the 1800s

smahala1991 · Answer

Yes and they had steam powered dildos

COMMODOREII · Answer

There is documentation that masturbation is pretty ancient. They did in the 1800s but some of the earliest are roman empire and ancient egypt. Yep sex has been around. 😎

Keith469 · Answer

Back in the day, doctors - ALL men, then - actually stimulated their female patients to orgasm in order to treat "female hysteria". True story.

Straight_Shooter · Answer

I think cavemen masturbated. There's nothing new about how good it feels.

mT2359 · Answer

Victorian England (1800s) with the Queen Victoria at the helm introduced and enforced catholic virtues in their dominion colonies where puritanical Bible virtues were enfocred. Homosexuality, LGBT rights, etc., were disowned.