Amazing facts about how masturbation used to be regarded.

This for real.

I once visited a historic insane asylum in New England (as a student) and was informed that in the past the vast majority of patients were there for masturbation related mental disorders.

To get a taste of that, watch American Horror Story, The Asylum.

Masturbation was once considered more offensive than child abuse

The frightening ways Victorians dealt with "the solitary vice"

http://theweek.com/article/index/254612/masturbation-was-once-considered-more-offensive-than-child-abuse

My eyesight is getting pretty bad, but it took 50 years. It was worth it.

I stopped doing it when I discovered I needed glasses.

Here's an infomercial from <deleted> anonymous.

Thinning hair?!? Floaters in eyes?!?

Here's an infomercial from wanke_rs anonymous.

Obviously it also lessens one's ability in spelling and grammar.

But there is no STD problem to be concerned about.