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Are there any good books or articles demonstrating the physical ill-effects of masturbation? For those souls in a state of sin due to masturbation (It is a kind of lust according to St. Thomas Aquinas.), there must be a bodily manifestation of it since both the body and soul comprise a human person.
E.g., according to Wikipedia,
E.g., according to Wikipedia,
.]ThanksIn 1760, Tissot] published L’Onanisme, his own comprehensive medical treatise on the purported ill-effects of masturbation. Citing case studies of young male masturbators amongst his patients in Lausanne, Switzerland as basis for his reasoning, Tissot argued that semen was an “essential oil” and “stimulus” that, when lost from the body in great amounts, would cause “a perceptible reduction of strength, of memory and even of reason; blurred vision, all the nervous disorders, all types of gout and rheumatism, weakening of the organs of generation, blood in the urine, disturbance of the appetite, headaches and a great number of other disorders.” [See http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_sexuality/v012/12.3singy.html”]this inteseting article