Primal origins of graham crackers are a shocker its all about the urge to have sex

It was a sex crack-er-down.People are shocked to discover the sex-fueled history of graham crackers as the salacious backstory resurfaces online.

 “I need you all to go Google why graham crackers were invented,” one surprised person wrote on X.“Apparently this went around on Twitter a few years ago but I am just now seeing this for the first time.” Sharing a simple summary of the story, another added: “Just discovered Graham Crackers were invented by a Presbyterian minister to cure licentiousness.

A lot of y’all need to start eating Graham Crackers.” Graham crackers were invented by Sylvester Graham, a puritanical 19th-century minister, in an attempt to tamper the “carnal desire” for sex he believed caused everything from headaches to insanity, experts and historians previously told The Post.But instead of simply preaching abstinence, Graham created something else entirely in hopes of quenching people’s sexual appetite and “curing” them: a bland, cracker-like snack.

Graham rose to prominence in the Presbyterian Church but was always obsessed with health after a childhood spent as a frail and sickly child.He studied the human body at Amherst College — though he dropped out after failing to make friends — and soon realized that his life’s mission was to prevent the evils of sex, indulgence and what he believed to be the unhealthy effects of lust.

His crusade was his most fervent cause as he claimed the act could “inflame the brain more than natural arousal” and even lead to insanity.“He was on a strong anti-masturbation crusade.

He said, ‘If you’re eating meat, you’re acting like an animal and you should avoid those types of primal instincts — like the urge to have sex,’” said Adam D.Shprintzen, who wrote about the cracker’s odd origin story in his book, “The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921.” He believed food played a critical role in tempering sexual desires and argu...