Masturbation, Constipation, and Bernarr MacFadden
June 17, 2025 This is the story of Physical Culture, the pioneering health and prosperity pulp magazine, the advertisers who supported it, the messianic self-promoter who founded it, and the metastasizing exploitation culture it helped spawn. Bernarr MacFadden (1868-1955) loved few bodies more than his own. Here he serves as the model in an ad…