Berkeley reporter on the beat

Remembering an era when people mostly beat about the bush Ted Friedman wraps his grasp firmly around the topic of masterbation and its cultural evolution in a time of "sex positive" student columnists and bureacratized curration of general knowledge.  It's mostly about Wikipedia, I think.  

The case for masturbation is a strong one, until we come to Kant, who felt that yielding to the "temptations off beasts," was a loss of self.