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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

38: On Self Abuse

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Please sir, can I have some more?

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0:00.0

Holly and Cheneyce are prepping for a big weekend away and it needs to go exactly to plan

0:05.5

so they need to know exactly what they get in, like the choice of over 800 hotels.

0:09.9

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0:12.1

So there are only moments away from where they want to be, with a super comfy bed waiting

0:16.8

for them at the end of the night. And with checkout by 12pm they can even hit snooze.

0:22.6

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0:27.8

Premierin.com. This is the way I heard it.

0:38.0

Reverend Sylvester was the youngest of 17 children, so it should come as no surprise to learn that

0:43.9

he was opposed to all methods of birth control. Moreover, the good Reverend decried with great passion,

0:50.2

any activity that might thwart mankind's sacred duty to go forth and multiply, including the

0:56.8

unseemly business of self-abuse. When it came to preaching the perils of manual gratification,

1:04.9

you might say Reverend Sylvester pounded the pulpit. Every Sunday he warned his congregation

1:11.4

and vivid detail of the eternal consequences that awaited those who dared spill their seed upon

1:17.9

infertile ground. Indeed, he even wrote a book on the subject entitled On Self Abuse,

1:24.6

a Seminole work, if there ever was one, and a bona fide bestseller during the great

1:29.4

mastrobation scare that swept the country in the early part of the 19th century.

1:35.2

Yes, the great mastrobation scare was, in fact, a real thing, but it would be premature to suggest

1:42.0

that Reverend Sylvester addressed the matter single-handedly. In fact, is many preachers in the early

1:49.5

1800s believe that shaking hands with the false prophet would put you in the fast lane on the road

1:55.6

to perdition. But more importantly, many doctors were firmly convinced that badgering the witness

2:02.6

and beating around the bush were leading causes of depression, epilepsy, tuberculosis,

2:08.1

insanity, sterility, and, of course, blindness. Thus, the medical professions preoccupation with

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