Some authorities pronounce masturbation to be a problem that needs solving in some particular way. The Passion for Christ Movement favors a text-based solution, as demonstrated in the photo to the right and elucidated in an essay by Dr. Ty. (Thanks to Feministing for bringing this to our attention.)
That approach either builds on or replaces one that was developed by Frederick Hollick in the mid 1800s and described a century and a half later in this study by April Haynes of the University of California, Santa Barbara:
“The Trials of Frederick Hollick: Obscenity, Sex Education, and Medical Democracy in the Antebellium United States,” April Haynes, Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 12, no. 4, October 2003, pp. 543-74. On page 555 Haynes explains: “If regimen and medication failed to heal an ex-masturbator of impotence and spermatorrhea, men could visit his New York office for a treatment that he called the shampoo, which consisted of deep tissue massage of the groin.” Here’s a fuller look at that passage:
