{"id":23390,"date":"2019-05-13T07:46:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T07:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/?p=23390"},"modified":"2024-08-12T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T23:22:40","slug":"masturbation-myths-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lelo.com\/blog\/masturbation-myths-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Masturbation Myths #2: Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDon\u2019t touch that, you\u2019ll go blind.\u201d We\u2019ve all heard it. But is there any truth in the idea that there\u2019s a direct connection between your sight and your sexual senses? I mean, it\u2019s been around so long that it seems to have acquired a truth all its own. It\u2019s almost superstitious now.<\/p>\n

We challenge some of the taboos and misconceptions about masturbation by tackling them head on. Today, we\u2019re asking the question:<\/p>\n

Does Masturbation Make You Go Blind?<\/h3>\n

No, there is absolutely no direct connection between vision and masturbation. There are occasional urban legends about a friend of a friend who blew some blood vessels in their eye from orgasming \u2018too hard,\u2019 but there\u2019s not much in the way of medical documentation to prove those kinds of rumors.<\/p>\n

Disproving this myth requires a simple equation. What percentage of people masturbate<\/a>? If you answered \u201890%, and 10% of people are liars,\u2019 then you\u2019re probably close. And now, many people go blind suddenly and inexplicably? About 0.2% of the population (based on a global average of 0.8% of blindness in the general population, with 21% of those cases having no definitive medical cause).<\/p>\n

See? The math doesn\u2019t quite add up, does it? And that figure even takes into account the general depreciation of vision in old age. If the myth were true, we\u2019d all have service animals.<\/p>\n

Myth Origin<\/h3>\n

This myth was brought to us directly from the city of Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1760, the Swiss physician Samuel-Auguste Tissot released l\u2019Onanisme, a treatise on the \u2018diseases caused by masturbation\u2019. In it, he claimed (amongst much, MUCH other batshit craziness) that zinc is vital for the processing of vision, and much zinc is lost through orgasm. Therefore, masturbation saps us of the \u2018essential oils and vitamins<\/a>\u2019 required for sight.<\/p>\n

This was the basis of much of his anti-masturbatory work, summarised in snappy soundbites like this: \u201cHow can one be otherwise than weak, when the strength of life is constantly discharged? It is the semen alone which renders a man strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this kind of pseudoscience has some appeal even today, and Tissot\u2019s issuings, so to speak, took hold and propagated. For 200 years and more, we\u2019ve believed masturbation will exhaust our oils.<\/p>\n

Tissot\u2019s extreme Calvinist Protestant faith had no influence on his findings, I\u2019m sure. Especially not when he also claimed: \u201c[sexual intercourse] with a beautiful female exhausts, less than with an ugly one.\u201d Thanks Switzerland. We call, how you Americans say, bullsheet.<\/p>\n

Read about other masturbation myths:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Masturbation Myths #1: Hairy Palms<\/a><\/p>\n

Masturbation Myths #3: Decreased Sensitivity<\/a><\/p>\n

Masturbation Myths #4: Alopecia<\/a><\/p>\n

So what about you? What\u2019s the craziest masturbation myth you\u2019ve ever heard? Leave it in the comments…<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDon\u2019t touch that, you\u2019ll go blind.\u201d We\u2019ve all heard it. But is there any truth in the idea that there\u2019s a direct connection between your sight and your sexual senses? I mean, it\u2019s been around so long that it seems to have acquired a truth all its own. It\u2019s almost superstitious now. We challenge some of the taboos and misconceptions about masturbation by tackling them head on. Today, we\u2019re asking the question: Does Masturbation Make You Go Blind? 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