Masturbation

Prejudices live long!

The prejudices durably settled down, and to the 50s the medical authority judged the masturbation responsible for numerous confusions of the physical and mental health, and qualified followers of "mental defectives", "pervert", or "lunatics".
André Lorulot, author of numerous books of sexology intended for the general public qualifies these comments but remains convinced that the masturbation presents important risks. He writes in 1957:
" Not only all the masturbateurs are not patients and lunatics, but there is an important quantity of normal people who practise or practised the masturbation. " The main danger of the masturbation would be, according to this author, to divert the desire of a sexual relation with a partner.