08-12-2025, 10:46 PM
(08-12-2025, 06:07 PM)GXT Wrote: https://atomicjunkshop.com/of-breakfast-...and-cults/
Quote:Edgerly, writing under the pen names "Edmund Shaftesbury" and "Everett Ralston," produced over 80 books about topics as varied as speech, diet, movement, acting, "artistic deep breathing," and ventriloquism. Of particular interest was his theory of "magnetism," including "mental magnetism," "personal magnetism," "sexual magnetism," and a variety of other topics, which made up the bulk of his overall philosophy of "Ralstonism." Ralston was originally derived from Edgerly’s mother’s name (Rhoda Lucinda Stone), later became the pseudonymous "doctor" name under which he wrote, and finally was reverse-engineered into an acronym of the Ralston philosophy, standing for "Regime, Activity, Light, Strength, Temperation, Oxygen, and Nature."
"Edmund Shaftesbury" lmfao, holy shit!
Man... all of those topics sound 100% right up my alley.
Quote:He also had ideas about sex, because of course he did. Among them: you should only have it once every eight days, no more, no less; young men should first have a "practice marriage" (translation: sex) with a woman old enough to be their grandmother. Then they should go off and build a career, and finally, in their 40s, they should marry a woman at least 20 years younger. See if you can guess who might have done that.
I can't argue with much about this except for the grandma part. I mean, maybe back in those days there were a lot more 40 year old grandmas though.