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2. Simon André Tissot, A Treatise on the Diseases Produced by Onanism (New York, 1832); facsimile reprint edition in The Secret Vice Exposed! Some Arguments Against Masturbation, ed. C. Rosenberg and C. Smith-Rosenberg (New York: Arno Press, 1974), as cited in John Money, The Destroying Angel (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1985), 53.
3. John Harvey Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old and Young (Burlington, IA: F. Segner, 1888), 295.
4. Money, Destroying Angel, 13. Money adds that many in his generation avoided medical exams all their lives because they feared the doctor would read their vice in their symptoms.
5. John Harvey Kellogg, The Art of Massage: A Practical Manual for the Nurse, the Student and the Practitioner (Battle Creek, MI: Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1895; repr. 1909, 1919, 1923; Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1975), 156.
6. Kellogg, Art of Massage, 139.
7. John Harvey Kellogg, Rules for Right Living (Battle Creek, MI: Health Extension Department, 1947), 11.
8. American Medical Association Committee on Human Sexuality, Human Sexuality (Chicago: American Medical Association, 1972), 40.
9. Diderot argued that monogamy and abstinence were both pointless superstitions that went against nature and pleasure. For a great selection of sources, see Michel Feher, ed., The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France (New York: Zone, 1997).
10. Marie Stopes, Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties (New York: Eugenics Publishing, 1918).
11. Stopes, Married Love, 81–82.
12. Stopes, Married Love, 61 (emphasis hers).
13. Stopes, Married Love, 107.
14. Stopes, Married Love, 108.
15. For the complete results of the study, see Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels, The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994).
16. Laumann et al., Social Organization of Sexuality, 86–87. See also Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata, Sex in America: A Definitive Study (New York: Warner Books, 1995).
17. Laumann et al., Social Organization of Sexuality, 104.
18. Laumann et al., Social Organization of Sexuality, 106.
CHAPTER 16: TREATMENTS
1. In the common personifications of each of the humors, Sanguinicus was often female, strong, and beautiful. Flegmaticus was calm but dull. Melancholicus was sentimental and indolent. Cholericus, of the yellow bile, was energetic and angry.
2. These actions were often also diagnostic (you bleed someone so you can examine their blood), or they might be taken to speed the illness through.
3. Montaigne, “Apology for Raymond Sebond,” in Complete Essays, 362.
4. If you saw the HBO series Rome, you saw people receiving the treatment and may have assumed they were being shaved.
5. Numbers, Prophetess of Health, 48.
6. Athanasius, The Festal Letters of Athanasius, ed. William Cureton (London: James Madden, 1848), http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cureton_festal_intro.htm.
7. You have seen the building. Rouen’s cathedral is the one that impressionist Claude Monet painted over and over, in various revelations of sunlight.
8. See Glenn Uminowicz, “Recreation in a Christian America,” in Hard At Play: Leisure in America, 1840–1940, ed. Kathryn Grover (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1992), 8–38.
9. Baedeker’s Guide to the United States (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893), 222.
10. Aaron E. Ballard, “Bathing,” in The Annual Report of the President of the Ocean Grove Camp-Meeting Association (1875), 59. As cited in Uminowicz, “Recreation,” 24.
11. First printed in the Asbury Park Journal and later in an article in the Long Branch (NJ) Record in July 1889.
12. Stephen Crane, “On the Boardwalk: Aug. 14, 1892,” in The Works of Stephen Crane, ed. Fredson Bowers (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1973), 8:515–16.
13. Asbury Park Evening Press, June 11, 1936.
14. Asbury Park Press, quoted in the Long Branch (NJ) Daily Record, March 24, 1905, as cited in Uminowicz, “Recreation,