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A little history for Anne Elk, ironweed, and other football fans.
According to a new history of English football titled Those Feet, football
- "was invented in Victorian public schools to keep boys from masturbating. The idea was that if boys were out on the field expending energy together, they could never be alone to engage in 'self pollution.' ...
The war on masturbation tailed off in the 1920s. Not much later the British empire fell."
via Wolcott
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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