going blind:

To masturbate , based on the old scare that masturbation could lead to blindness. In his Onanism: or Treatise upon the Disorders Produced by Masturbation (1766), A. Hume warns the reader that the perverse and degenerate practice of onania can cause insanity, deafness, blindness, hairy palms, and withering away of the penis . See masturbation for synonyms.

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