# Keep doing that and you'll go blind! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 29, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-doing-that-and-youll-go-blind/648677 "2013-01-29T02:17:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-doing-that-and-youll-go-blind/648677/21 "2013-01-29T17:35:57Z")
> [@DataX](#): > > I’m pretty sure the hair on the palm thing isn’t to scare kids 🙂 You’re quite correct. A lot of boy kids would’ve LOVED to have hairy palms! I know I definitely had a lot of fun scaring the girls! ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-doing-that-and-youll-go-blind/648677/22 "2013-01-29T17:57:55Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > By the 1970’s, this was laughable. > > But we did know that masturbation caused acne > Sexual intercourse, however, cleared up acne. In reality, of course, it was the clearing up of acne that caused sexual intercourse, which in turn led to the diminution of masturbation. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-doing-that-and-youll-go-blind/648677/23 "2013-01-29T18:17:32Z")
I have often wondered if in times when hygiene was less common, that handling ones genitalia more than required might make conjunctivitis and other eye infections more common? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-doing-that-and-youll-go-blind/648677.md?page=1)