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1864 letter recounts Confederate soldier’s masturbation addiction

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1864 letter recounts Confederate soldier’s masturbation addiction
By Jon Simkins
Jul 11, 01:23 PM
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An 1864 letter sent by Confederate Lt. William Dandridge Pitts to assess the wellbeing of his brother Charles is up for auction — and its contents are brimming with remarkably different strokes.

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In the handwritten note, Pitts, an officer who served in the 40th Virginia Infantry until his resignation in late 1862, asks the superintendent of the Staunton-based Western Lunatic Asylum, where Charles was being kept as an inmate, to keep him apprised of his brother’s condition.

1864 letter recounts Confederate soldier’s masturbation addiction

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I didn't think that the DSM lists masturbation as an "addiction." But I wanted to look it up. The following link takes one to an article on masturbation: https://psychcentral.com/health/masturbation-addiction. It's an interesting read. . . .