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Ah, the Diogenes Club!

• lwhalen 7y ago
  "If only hunger could be satisfied by such vigorous rubbing!"
  • nstart 7y ago
    I for one, appreciate the reference. Thank you for the laugh :)
• GeorgeRichard 7y ago
  First thought: The club is described by Sherlock Holmes in the story "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" as follows: There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_Club) Second thought prompted by lwhalen: According to the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by the third-century AD biographer Diogenes Laërtius, Diogenes of Sinope, the fourth-century BC Cynic philosopher, often masturbated in public, which was considered scandalous.[7][8][9] When people confronted him over this, he would say, "If only it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly."[7][8][9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_masturbation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_masturbation)