John Harvey Kellogg

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was a medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan who ran a sanitarium using holistic methods, with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas and exercise.

In his time, he was viewed as a campaigner for health and sexual temperance. Indeed, Kellogg was a zealous campaigner against all forms of sex. He recommended extreme methods for this:

A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment. In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.

John Harvey Kellogg, M.D., "Treatment for Self-Abuse and its Effects," Plain Fact for Old and Young. Burlington, Iowa: F. Segner & Co. (1888). P. 295

Although Kellogg boasted on never having consummated his marriage, he started each day by taking an enema, a practice which some people would regard as related to klismaphilia, the paraphilia of taking sexual pleasure from enemas. Many modern commentators now see him as a man who diverted his entire sexuality into receiving enemas and inflicting them on others.

Today Kellogg, a radical advocate of vegetarianism, is best known for the invention of corn flakes and as the brother of Will Keith Kellogg, who founded the Kellogg Company.

T. Coraghessan Boyle's 1993 comic novel The Road to Wellville is a fictionalized story about Kellogg and his sanitarium. A filmed version of the book, directed by Alan Parker, was released in 1994. It starred Anthony Hopkins as Kellogg.