I feel rather guilty. My mum called to tell me all about her job and the interview she has and I spent most of it just nodding and making the appropriate noise every now and again - I wasn't actually listening. She's reminded me I need to renew my passport... personally, I can't actually be bothered to do so. I have no plans to leave the country, I
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The scary thing is, this whole sequence of events makes all too much sense. Poor Holmes.
Very... illuminating. I would distrust women too if I were Holmes. Makes EXcellent sense.
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I find it more scary that an entire section of medicine was based on a 18th century quack doctors theory from a reference in the Bible.
Glad you found it illuminating.
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Excellent work, as usual. ^_^
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Glad you enjoyed found the story illuminating.
(PS - when you build the time machine would you mind find out who Jack the Ripper was?)
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having holmes's father haul him to a priest and undergo "confession" is not only unnecessary, but rather weird as it makes holmes's family apparently catholic (not impossible, i'll grant, but rather unlikely).
in addition, i simply can't believe that holmes would have this conversation -- it's extremely out of character for both of them. in reality, the story would have ended after this line:
"Holmes, can I ask you something very personal?" when holmes either ignored watson or just stared at him. even allowing for some kind of discussion of this event, the language is unconvincing -- casual talk about foreskins and such just ( ... )
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his family's position (meagre as it may have been) in victorian england simply makes me think that catholicism would be unlikely. although now that i think of it more, i think my scepticism was probably due to the inclusion of catholicism just so the story could include being hauled to church to offer confession to a priest.
The first so called medical publication linking masturbation with ill effects came in 1712 when an anonymous doctor published 'Onania'.
oh, yah, but by the time your story is taking place the characters don't need to have religious zealots in their family for them to have an extremely adverse reaction to masturbation!
There was nothing behind this story other than some random research I did to help someone find a link between morphine & homosexualitythat my have been because homosexuality was not regarded as a medical disorder at all until the end of the 19th century -- and even then the idea of "treating" gayness (in one way or another) was ( ... )
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