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So on a whim I decided to look up who the original cereal mascot was (It's Cap'n Crunch, by the way, unless you count the Quaker Oats Man for oatmeal), and I found this.

Kelloggs Corn Flakes were first sold commercially in the US in 1906, making their way across the world and reaching Australia in the early 1920s. A strict Seventh-Day Adventist, John Kellogg initially marketed the cereal as a healthy, ready-to-eat, anti-masturbatory morning meal."

In a freakish episode of history, Kellogg wrote that masturbation led to poor digestion, memory loss, impaired vision, heart disease, epilepsy and insanity to name just a few of its supposed insidious side effects. To break young boys of the habit, he suggested procedures that ranged from the ridiculous to the barbaric, including tying their hands, bandaging the offending organ or putting a cage over it. Young girls had it worse, with pure carbolic acid applied to the clitoris or, in more extreme cases, surgical removal. When those tactics didnt work (or were realized as inhuman), he recommended they all just eat Corn Flakes.

what

who knew this was why cereal was invented