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1864 letter recounts Confederate soldier’s masturbation addiction

“I have had some conversation with the physician who attended my brother previous to his going to the asylum,” Lt. Pitts wrote to the superintendent, “and he advises me to inform you of the fact, that he had learned from some of my brother’s associates, who were in [military] camp with him, that he was addicted to masturbation, while in camp. He (the physician) is also persuaded of this fact from the conversations he has had with my brother.”
 
To be real for a second, imagine writing that, being hospitalized for, "treating" the condition, all against the cultural norms and values of the 1860's.

Not the first guy, not the last (we have an entire "Corps" of those people), but damn...1864 and this was actually discussed.
 
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