The Kellog’s Conspiracy

From an article at Rotten.com:

Kellogg’s Cornflakes, the bland breakfast flakes that go almost instantly limp in milk were originally invented to bore you into such a deep coma that you would fall face down in the milk drenched flakes, drown, and thereby be spared the temptation and sin known as masturbation.

Like many Christian conservatives before and since, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg believed that masturbation, and in fact all sexual excess, was sinful – “sexual excess” here defined as “sex for anything beyond reproduction”. (...)

Although it is hard to judge whether Kellogg and similar theorists were the cause or merely the voice of 19th century Americans’ surging hysteria over masturbation, we can certainly see that the shadow of this era has lingered in our culture for over a century.

Philipp Lenssen on Friday, Mar 31 2006 reg. Conspiracy Theories.