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In the 18th and 19th centuries, if a patient had ejaculations outside of marital intercourse, or released more semen than is typical, then he was diagnosed with a disease called '''spermatorrhoea''' or '''seminal weakness'''. A variety of drugs and other treatments, including circumcision and castration, were advised to treat this imagined "disease".<ref>Ornella Moscuci. [http://www.cirp.org/library/histors y/moscucci/ Male masturbation and the offending prepuce]. Excerpt from "Sexualities in Victorian Britain." [http://www.geocities.com/paul_ervine/malemasturbation.html Mirror 1].</ref><ref>[[William Acton]]. "[http://www.victorianlondon.org/disease/spermatorrhoea.htm Victorian London - Disease - Spermatorrhoea]". From ''Prostitution, considered in its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects''. 2nd edition, 1870. Compiled in Lee Jackson's ''The Victorian Dictionary''.</ref> Some alternative practitioners, especially [[herbalism|herb healers]], continue to diagnose and advise treatments for cases of spermatorrhoea, but these treatments have no evidence base, and no place in mainstream medicine.