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Were cornflakes invented to stifle desire?
Cornflakes against masturbation
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You might have heard rumors that cornflakes were invented as “part of an anti-masturbation crusade” (via Mentalfloss). Snopes rates this position as “mostly false.” Here are the basics. Kellogg was not a fan of self-stimulation, which he described as “a sin against nature” in his book, Plain Facts for Old and Young. The doctor never explicitly recommended eating cornflakes to stifle sexual desires but rather to aid digestion. However, the cereal was certainly the antithesis of the stimulant-filled diet that Kellogg thought encouraged “abominable” behaviors.
“Tea and coffee have led thousands to perdition,” Kellogg argued. Candies, spices, cinnamon, cloves, peppermint, vinegar, mustard, horseradish, salt, and pepper? All hard nos. Per Kellogg, these induced dangerously heightened emotions, leading to “insanity,” “hysteria,” “profound melancholy,” “hopeless” lunacy, “idiocy,” “premature and defective development,” and “untrustworthiness.” To promote docility and civility, he recommended “the most simple, pure, and unstimulating diet.”
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