n 1994, when the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, mentioned as an aside that it should be mentioned in school curricula that masturbation was safe and healthy, she was forced to resign
Corporal punishment, usually delivered with an implement rather than with the open hand, used to be a common form of school discipline in many countries, but it is now banned in most of the western world and in Japan, Canada, India, New Zealand and South