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Episode 4 - Excessive Venery, Masturbation and Continence
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On this episode, we're gonna take a deep dive into an old medical treatise from 1844, which basically states that if fall into the patterns of pleasure, you are headed for an early grave!
Transcript available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MIkpjlkrmkFCC7gOSKX0YLQGg9T9Dq8Z
Sources:
Englehardt, H.T. (2013). The Disease of Masturbation: Values and the Concept of Disease. Meaning and Medicine: a Reader in the Philosophy of Health Care.
Howe, J.W. (1883). Excessive Venery, Masturbation and Continence. Available via Internet Archive, Google Books, HathiTrust, etc.
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