mai in gluma, mai in serios ...

Spicuiri din adevarurile absolute proferate de Woody Allen:

"Life is a terminal disease, sexually transmitted."
sau alta, la fel de nostima, "... masturbation: it's sex with someone I love. "






Si fiindca tot s-a ajuns aici, iata si citeva date istorice:

"Really long time ago:
Genesis 38.8-10, declares that Onan spilled his seed "upon the ground." Even though there is no evidence in the Old Testament that he masturbated, as opposed to having pulled out, Onan is forever associated with masturbation.

End of the first century: The Romans begin to use the words "masturbor" and "masturbator" for the first time. The origins of the word remain shrouded in obscurity.
500 C.E.: A Talmudic passage notes that "every hand that 'checks' [the genitals] frequently — if by a woman, it is praiseworthy, but if by a man it should be cut off."

13th century:
Christian philosopher Albertus Magnus recommends that pubescent girls rub their clitorises in order to preserve their chastity.
1623: One of the earliest English dictionaries defines "mastuprate" as "dishonestly to touch one’s privates."
In or around 1712:
An obscure surgeon publishes Onania; or, the Heinous Sin of Self Pollution, and All its Frightful Consequences, in both SEXES Considered, with Spiritual and Physical Advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice. And seasonal Admonition to the Youth of the nation of Both SEXES . . . The tract, mostly soft porn, reinvents masturbation as a disease and sparks three hundred years of masturbation-related guilt and anxiety.
1780s: Rousseau's Confessions, filled with his deeply conflicted accounts on wanking, is published posthumously.

Mid-nineteenth century: Anti-masturbation products such as erection alarms, penis cases, sleeping mitts and bed cradles to keep the sheets off the genitals become popular. At least twenty U.S. patents are given for hobbles to prevent girls from spreading their legs.
1905: Freud suggests masturbation is a "development stage," arguing that if infantile masturbation continues it "would constitute the first great deviation from the course of development by civilized man."

1969: Philip Roth publishes Portnoy's Complaint, in which the hero masturbates with raw liver.
1992: Famous "Contest" episode of Seinfeld airs.
1995: Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders is fired after saying children should be taught about masturbation in the appropriate health or social studies classes."

Autorul acestui scurt istoric este Sharon Lintz (a writer living in Brooklyn. She has written for the New York Post and comedycentral.com and has produced work for public radio, most recently a humor piece about vaginal cosmetic surgery for WBAI's now-defunct sex show eradio.)

P.S.1. Pentru cine vrea sa aprofundeze subiectul, a aparut mai demult o carte, apreciata de critica academica, intitulata "Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation", by Thomas W. Laqueur

P.S.2. Nelegat de subiect, dar pertinent ca vecinatate, iata si o lista de cuvinte bune de stiut, insa care o data stiute, nu mai are rost sa fie repetate ...