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As an advocate of sexual abstinence, Kellogg devoted large amounts of his educational and medical work to discouraging sexual activity on the basis of dangers both scientifically understood at the time—as in sexually transmissible diseases—and those taught by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. [...]
Kellogg worked on the rehabilitation of masturbators, often employing extreme measures, even mutilation, on both sexes. He was an advocate of circumcising young boys to curb [[masturbation]] and applying phenol to a young woman's clitoris. In his "Plain Facts for Old and Young"<ref name="Kellogg1888">{{REFwebREFbook
|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19924/19924-h/19924-h.htm
|title=Plain Facts for Old and Young: Natural History and Hygiene of Organic Life (Sex, Marriage & Society Series)
|last=Kellogg
|first=John Harvey
|author-link=John Harvey Kellogg
|publisher=Ayer Publishing
|website=Gutenberg
|dateyear=1888
|accessdate=2020-03-23
}}</ref>, he wrote:
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