I know you guys are all young and atheists so that means that you are so much smarter then me and know everything. However, perhaps when your done with all your catholic bashing you might consider something. How do you know this was about masturbation? Is it because someone in the corner wrote that it was about masturbation? That someone who obviously was re-quoting it for say another book? Amazing that the burden of proof is so low. I wonder; if homeland security said that this was about masturbation if you would all still belief this?

Is it possible this might be about syphilis? I did some goggle work on the symptoms of syphilis here is what i found:

“You may start to feel unwell, features include headaches, general aches and pains, sickness, loss of appetite and maybe a fever.”

“The rash appears on the backs of the legs and the front of the arms and often on your back, face, hands and feet.”

“Tertiary syphilis can attack the nervous system, the heart and blood vessels that results in blindness, paralysis, and insanity”

“Small, open sores may be present on mucous membranes. The sores may contain pus, or moist so’

“Patchy hair loss, especially in the eyebrows, eyelashes, and scalp hair”

“Abnormal notched and peg shaped teeth called Hutchinson teeth”

“Refusal to move a painful arm or leg”

“Nausea and vomiting Difficulty swallowing”

“when syphilis was first definitely recorded in Europe in 1495, its pustules often covered the body from the head to the knees, caused flesh to fall from people’s faces, and led to death within a few months”

interesting enough by 1844 they knew it was an STD
“syphilis was not recognized as a sexually transmitted disease until the seventeenth century”

but hell I could be wrong. I mean just because it seems to be talking about syphilis and the fact that at that time period other people were drawing pictures warning about the dangers of syphilis such as; Kees van Dongen, that doesn’t prove anything. We should spend our time bad mouthing catholics instead and not let pesky facts get in the way.

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