Always taking matters into your own hand is not a good idea, if you know what I mean. We’re into the 21st century but masturbation is still frowned upon. But did you know that there was a time when it was considered to be extremely abnormal behaviour, evil almost, to make yourself ‘happy’. So how did we deal with it? How else? We portrayed it as a taboo! After all, we humans are amazing at that.

So back in 1844 in Paris, an extract was published from ‘The Book with No Title’ (Le livre sans titre) and it showed how masturbation can have fatal consequences. Yes, that’s right, FATAL!

If you have difficulty processing that, here’s the extract:

Be careful guys!

H/T: 9gag