Graham Crackers and Masturbation

Did you know Graham crackers were originally intended to suppress carnal urges?  As in, wanting to play with yourself?  What in the fuck? 

It was originally conceived of as a health food as part of the Graham Diet, a regimen to suppress what he considered unhealthy carnal urges, the source of many maladies according to Graham. Reverend Graham would often lecture about the adverse effects of masturbation or "self-abuse" as he called it. One of his many theories was that one could curb their sexual appetite by eating bland foods. Another man who held this belief was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of the corn flakes cereal. (Source)

So then naturally I had to check up on this Kelogg guy, and damn, was his line of thinking somewhat fucked up as well.

Kellogg, an advocate of sexual abstinence, devoted large amounts of his educational and medical work to discouraging sexual activity, on the basis of dangers both real - as in sexually transmissible diseases - and purported. He set out his views on such matters in one of his larger books, published in various editions around the turn of the century under the title Plain Facts about Sexual Life and later Plain Facts for Old and Young. Some of his work on diet was influenced by his belief that a plain and healthy diet, with only two meals a day, among other things, would reduce sexual feelings. Those experiencing temptation were to avoid stimulating food and drinks, and eat very little meat, if any. Kellogg also advocated hydrotherapy and stressed the importance of keeping the colon clean through yogurt enemas. (source)

Okay, so I understand his supposed higher goal based on averting the threat of STDs,  but what lengths can one ethically go to prevent this?  According to this site, which has the complete book of his online, he says:

[Kellogg]...despised masturbation, even resorting to operating on a 10-year-old girl to stop her habit (as you will read, he betrays his doubts about whether he should have done it or not). He epitomizes the anti-masturbation mania.

If there weren't enough, here's an excerpt from a page of the book (click to enlarge):

You can find Kellogg's book, Plain Facts for Old and Young: Embracing the Natural History and Hygiene of Organic Life right here.

If we let pseudo-science, speculation and willful ignorance based on one's blind, so-called moral principles take precedence over sound science, ultimately this is a much greater harm than anything they aim to prevent.

In closing, Kellogg was one crazy fucker.