When Pearl Jam's album, 'Vitalogy,' was released, I was in my early teens. In the album's liner notes, for kitsch value, is included an ancient screed against masturbation that features "before" and "after" illustrations of a young man who has succumbed to the "debilitating disease" of "self-pollution." Before, the man is healthy and spry; after, he is pallid and ill. Uninformed about sex and raised in a Puritan atmosphere, I wondered seriously whether the claim were true. For a long while, I suspected that it was and feared accordingly for my health.
A childhood belief about sex
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all old people got the disease "OLD TIMERS DISEASE" Instead of alzheimers disease :D— MollyJohnson
- I used to think that Alzheimers disease was called Old Timers Disease.— Justin
- Until I was 8 I used to think that women who wore eye liner were witches. — Will
- That Alzheimer's Disease was Old Timer's Disease.— Todd K
- I used to believe that thunder was aliens entering the atmosphere, and lightning was them firing lazers at us!— Zeepoo-zoop
- That donuts where healthy!!!— Stephanie!!