n an intellectual feat of surpassing audacity, he declared that sex -- even between married couples -- was "against nature," and should be avoided at all costs. (That such a view of nature could be taken seriously just a hundred years ago is a mystery for another day.) In his own marriage of over four decades, he and his wife proudly claimed never to have had sex together.
Kellogg believed that the pleasure of eating flavorful food led directly to the great evil of masturbation, so he created the blandest foods he could: corn flakes. If the tasteless breakfast cereals didn't cure you of the horrid onanistic habit, he was happy to take more drastic measures, such as circumcision, without anesthetic, "as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind......................
He also encouraged enclosing the penis in a metal band with sharpened spikes pointing in to render excruciatingly painful even involuntary night erections (which happen for nearly all sleeping boys) or sewing the foreskin closed over the head of the penis.
For girls who were caught touching themselves in ways this monster found offensive, he recommended the application of carbolic acid directly to the clitoris.
In addition to his crusades against sexual pleasure, Kellogg was an outspoken supporter of racial segregation, forming the Race Betterment Foundation in 1906. He felt that blacks and immigrants would contaminate the superior gene pool of white America.
The Kellogg Company, in other words, was founded by an American Taliban. Kellogg was a cruel and ignorant racist advocate of child-abuse with an insane aversion to anyone anywhere having any sexual pleasure (unless they got it from daily yogurt enemas, as he apparently did).
