crusade against masturbation and sexual excitedness
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/02/the-villa-where-doctors-experimented-on-children

*“The smallest had two thumbs cut—the tops were cut off. She was maybe five. Her father was a gynecologist who’d caught her masturbating, and he’d amputated one thumb and then the other.”

~identifying the “rotten apples” of the lower classes and turning them into “proper bourgeois subjects, mothers and housewives, well-behaved family breadwinners who live the Catholic sexual morality~