Tied to the bed

My advice is to never read anything about a film before you see it. Just watch it and make your own mind first before reading what others have to say about it.

The scenes are not graphic at all, the context is a bit harsh but the way it's portrayed makes it rather easy to swallow.

Masturbation hysteria ran through much of the Western world during the latter 19th-early 20th centuries. Any number of books touching on the subject were available in the U.S., and undoubtedly in other countries as well. A personal favorite is the 1894 volume: "Wise Counsel, or: Light In Dark Corners", which purports to be a sex manual. The author, however, is so repressed or afraid of censorship that he never manages to state directly what he is writing about, though he fills several hundred pages with his attempts!

He does, however, manage a rousing condemnation of "that worst of temptations....the solitary vice". Which, if he is to be believed, is the cause of acne, insanity, ill health, alcoholism, mental retardation, and just about every other ill under the sun. This was in fact common medical parlance in the 1890s and for some time thereafter.

A number of medical quacks of the time sold items including heavy mittens that were placed on children's hands at bedtime but could not be removed except by another. Some medical books of the time did indeed recommend the use of restraints, including tying the hands to the bed. A friend recalls being tucked into bed during the mid-1950s and his mother tucking the blankets in very firmly with his hands outside, undoubtedly a holdover from an earlier time and perhaps quite innocently intended, but still....

Some of the characters in "The White Ribbon" could have benefited considerably from a few good orgasms. Unfortunately, I fear that they would have felt so guilty over them that any benefit would have been lost.

Much of Sigmund Freud's contribution to psychology, I suspect, was due to his obsession with sexual matters. Those who came to him completely messed up as the result of a lifetime of being unable to do what comes naturally were encouraged to discuss matters they had hardly dared to think about before coming to see the doctor. After overcoming what must have been their most deeply-rooted taboo, Freud's patients undoubtedly found the daily troubles of life veritably trivial by comparison.


The last resort of one who cannot think is to argue that another cannot feel.

Wow. Wish you would have

Do aliens not have the futuristic technology required to turn off movies they aren't enjoying?