Jamieson Webster and Daniel Kolitz Unpack That Gooning Article

Jamieson Webster and Daniel Kolitz Unpack That Gooning Article

Image courtesy of @casual.nihilism. A colleague reminded me of the apocryphal tale of the psychoanalyst who, after listening to a patient for only a few minutes, would mutter, “another one ruined by masturbation.” The joke was meant to move patients past the common neurotic fear that masturbating causes irrevocable damage.  Freud called masturbation the “primal addiction” upon which all others are based, but refused to link it to pathology or il…