Then Freud tied it only to neurosis. Later, the eminent psychiatrist Karl Menninger proclaimed that it wasn't a mental illness at all. According to this well-known psychiatrist people masturbate because they are angry, not because they are horny. From 'Sin', to 'Mental Illness', to 'Therapy' The issue of masturbation shows clearly the confusion inherent in psychiatric theory. When the general moral climate declared masturbation sinful the psychiatrist called it mental illness .
Psychiatrists create the diseases they pretend to cure by an act of rhetorical fiat.
When the moral climate changed so did the nomenclature. On the other hand, women seduced by men at an early age become frigid. One need not point out that this is the old double standard medicalized. Sexually active young men avoid mental illness while similar sexual activity for young women causes it. Freud obviously did not consider with whom these young men were supposed to be sexually active.