Some video in my recommendations from some chick I’ve never seen in my life: “I READ KINKY ROMANCE NOVELS AND NOW I WANT A LOBOTOMY”Me, gently clicking the ‘don’t recommend this channel’ button: “Maybeyoushouldntseekoutexplicitlykinkyartthen.”
“This romance novel damaged my delicate woman brain and now I need to have my innocence restored via paternalistic medical braindamage.”
WOW THAT SOUNDS SO PROGRESSIVE!
Lets hear what John Kellogg, inventor of cornflakes and noted hater of masturbation has to say on it!
And so is Kellogg’s claim that reading novels are “one of the most pernicious habits to which a young lady can be devoted. When the habit is once thoroughly fixed, it becomes as inveterate as the use of liquor or opium:”
“When we add to this the fact that a large share of the popular novels of the day contain more or less matter of a directly depraving character, presented in such gilded form and specious guise that the work of contamination may be completed before suspicion is aroused, it should become apparent to every careful mother that her daughters should be vigilantly guarded against this dangerous source of injury and possible ruin. We have dilated quite fully upon this subject in a preceding section, and will not enlarge upon it here. Yet we particularly desire to go on record as believing firmly that the practice of novel reading is one of the greatest causes of uterine disease in young women.”
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