Occasionally infibulation has been used as a means of preventing
masturbation. De la Fontaine has mentioned this fact, and there
is a case in this country in which acute dementia from
masturbation was cured by infibulation. In this instance the
prepuce was perforated in two opposite places by a trocar, and
two pewter sounds (No. 2) were introduced into the wounds and
twisted like rings. On the eleventh day one of the rings was
removed, and a fresh one introduced in a new place. A cure was
effected in eight weeks. There is recent mention made of a method
of preventing masturbation by a cage fastened over the genitals
by straps and locks. In cases of children the key was to be kept
by the parents, but in adults to be put in some part of the house
remote from the sleeping apartment, the theory being that the
desire would leave before the key could be obtained.
Among some peoples the urethra was slit up as a means of
preventing conception, making a meatus near the base of the
penis. Herodotus remarks that the women of a certain portion of
Egypt stood up while they urinated, while the men squatted.
Investigation has shown that the women were obliged to stand up
on account of elongated nymphae and labia, while the men sought a
sitting posture on account of the termination of the urethra
being on the inferior side of the base of the penis, artificially
formed there in order to prevent conception.
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