# Blinded by the Light

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/19011>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [May 9, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/19011 "2000-05-09T15:45:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/19011/1 "2000-05-09T15:45:13Z")

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My understanding, gleaned from a “Rock Lists” book by those Rolling Stone folks some years ago, was that “Blinded by the Light” was in part about young men pleasuring themselves. Masturbation and “looking into the sights of the sun” being two activities believed to blind the perpetrator. “But mama, that’s where the fun is…”

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/19011/2 "2000-05-09T15:49:42Z")

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Is this the column you’re talking about?

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_148.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_148.html)

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/19011/3 "2000-05-09T15:52:06Z")

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> Is this the column you’re talking about?
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> [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_148.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_148.html)  
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Yes