This is part II of “Sex. Lies, and …Fibre to Combat Vice?” Part I may be found here.
While I’d learned a great deal about natural hygiene in my studies, I had no idea that Kellogg’s obsession was downright pornographic. I was lucky to find his 1889 book at a yard sale: “Plain Facts For the Old and Young: Embracing the Natural History Hygiene of Organic Life.” The 600 page plus is a veritable compendium of bowel pornography.
I’m going to open the book at random here and there to give you the man’s own words, and they sure don’t say “vegetarians do it better.”
p. 450
“If a child is begotten in lust, its owner passions will as certainly be abnormally developed as peas will produce peas…If the child does not become a rake or a prostitute, it will be because of…a miracle of divine grace. But even then, what terrible struggles with sin and vice, with foul thoughts and lewd imaginations!”
p.194
“In constipation, the rectum becomes distended with feces- effete matter which should have been promptly evacuated, instead of being allowed to accumulate. This hardened mass presses upon the parts most intimately concerned in the sexual act, causing excessive local excitement. When this condition is chronic, as in habitual constipation, the unnatural excitement often leads to most serious results. One of these is the production of a horrible disease, satyriasis…”
p.546
“Hysterical Breast- In one of the worst cases we ever met, in which the breasts were exceedingly sensitive and much swollen, the patients was greatly addicted to masturbation.”
p.163
“Indeed it may with truth be said that the devices of modern cookery are most powerful allies of unchastity and licentiousness.”
p.217
“Constipation, piles, worms, pruritis of the genitals, and some other less common diseases of the urinary and genital systems have been causes of sexual excitement which has resulted in moral degradation.”
p.252
“Love of solitude is a very suspicious sign. Children are naturally sociable…When a child habitually seeks seclusion without sufficient cause, there are good grounds for suspecting him of sinful habits. The barn, the garret, the water closet and sometimes secluded places in the woods are favourite resorts of masturbators.”
p.339
“The sin of self pollution is one of the vilest, the basest, the most degrading that a human being can commit….Those who commit it place themselves far below the meanest brute that breathes. The most loathsome reptile, rolling in the slush and slime of its stagnant pool would not bemean itself thus. It is true that monkeys sometimes have the habit, but only when they have been taught it by vile men or boys.”
p.177-178
“…the helpless infant imbibes the essence of libidinous desires with its mother’s milk, and thence receives upon its forming brain the stamp of vice. When old enough to take food in the ordinary way, the infant’s tender organs of digestion are plies with highly seasoned viands, stimulating sauces, animal foods, sweetmeats…Flesh, condiments, eggs, tea, coffee…and all stimulants have a powerful influence directly upon the reproductive organs. They increase the local supply of blood, and through nervous sympathy with the brain, the passions are aroused.”
Every single page of this unbelievably weird book reads in the same vein. Secretions, emissions, excrement and vice. Is it any wonder that half the North American population is mentally ill? The inheritance of our parents and grandparents was this repressive regime, sexuality in a strait-jacket. Dr. Kellogg and just about everyone else blamed epilepsy, poor eyesight, club feet, and consumption on “vice.”
Here’s my ad/vice: have your steak and eat it, too, and thank God for the zinc, protein, B12 and more that inflame your libido. Then choose it, use it, “self-abuse it.” Whatever you do, don’t lose it. 
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