writer, Acton published his next book, Prostitution, Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspect, in London and Other Large Cities and Garrison Towns, with Proposals for the Control and Prevention of Attendant Evils, almost immediately after The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs.... Acton concluded that "Vanity, giddiness, greediness, love of dress, distress, hunger, marke women prostitutes, but not general sensuality." Acton spent the rest of his life trying to teach upper-class English citizens how to manage the problem of child masturbation. This was referred to as the "masturbation hysteria" with associated beliefs, such as that masturbation could lead to blindness. Acton died in 1875. References 1813 births 1875 deaths Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital 19th-century English medical doctors Masturbation