With this in mind, entrepreneurial inventors developed such devices as a genital cage that would ring an alarm when a boy wearing it had an erection, to prevent masturbation. ... The lecture by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in 1909 at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, has introduced an American audience to the notion that sexuality is a central part of human identity and development. Inspired by the writings of Freud, a growing number of Americans rejected the Victorian ideal of sexual restraint, believing that it undermined marriage by causing frustration and adulterous affairs. ...

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