The claim that John Harvey Kellogg created corn flakes for their supposed masturbation-suppressing qualities, and — more specifically, that he promoted the product as such — has been online for several years.
The supposed anaphrodisiac purpose of corn flakes also did not appear in John Harvey Kellogg'sin 1895. There, he instead emphasized the flakes' purported health benefits, describing them as being"well adapted for sick and convalescent persons":
It was during medical school when a time-crunched John, who prepared his own meals on top of studying round the clock, first began to think about creating a nutritious, ready-to-eat cereal ... One of the most common medical complaints of the day was dyspepsia, the 19th-century catchall term for a medley of flatulence, constipation, diarrhea, heartburn, and “upset stomach.”
It was no wonder Dr. Kellogg saw a need for a palatable, grain-based “health food” that was “easy on the digestion” and also easy to prepare. He hypothesized that the digestive process would be helped along if grains were pre-cooked — essentially, pre-digested — before they entered the patient’s mouth. Dr. Kellogg baked his dough at extremely high heat to break down starch contained in the grain into the simple sugar dextrose. John Kellogg called this baking process dextrinization.
Kellogg devoted an entire section of the book to masturbation, which he referred to as"self-pollution" and the"solitary vice," and described as"the most dangerous of all sexual abuses." That section of the book can be read in fullKellogg identified multiple purported causes and harms related to the habit of masturbation, many of which would appear laughably unscientific to a modern reader.
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