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Sexual Vitality 
 
 A Key to Health and Vigor 
 
 A Compendium of Special Information Gathered 
 from the Most Authoritative Sources, and Pre- 
 sented in a Form Easily Understood 
 
 Compiled by S. R. ARMSTRONG 
 
 Published by 
 
 THE VIM PUBLISHING CO. 
 500 Fifth Avenue, New York. 
 
COPYRIGHTED, JANUARY, 1904 
 BY 
 THE VIM PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 NEW YORE 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 es 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 Necessity of Knowledge of Self 
 
 Development of the Race—Theory of Natural Liv- 
 ing Disproved—Nakedness and Early Sex-Familiar= 
 ity Condemned—Primitive Man Vicious—The Bars 
 Civilization Has Erected Against Degeneracy—Sex 
 Reformers’ Theories. 
 
 General View of the Sexual Function—Physiologi= 
 cal Facts—Mechanical Arrangement of the Parts— 
 The Phenomena of the Production of the Life Fluid 
 —Its Effect Upon the Health—Normal Channels for 
 Its Escape into the Circulation—Excesses to be 
 Avoided. 
 
 CHAPTER Ii 
 Male Organs of Generation 
 
 Nerve Connections of the Sexual System—Anat- 
 omy of the Sexual Organs of the Male—The Penis 
 —Description—Body of the Penis—Erectile Tissue 
 
 685681 
 
of the Organ—Blood Vessels—Urethra—Prostate 
 Gland—Glandular Secretions—The Testes—Scrotum 
 —Vas Deferens—Spermatic Cord—Veins, Nerves 
 and Blocd Vessels of this Part—the Semen—Sper= 
 matozoa—Effects of Frequent Intercourse upon 
 
 Spermatozoa. 
 
 CHAPTER III 
 Female Organs of Generation 
 
 Names of the Chief Organs—The Mons Veneris— 
 Labia Majora and Minora—The Clitoris—Seat of 
 Sexual Pleasure in the Female—The Hymen— 
 Causes that Destroy the Hymen—The Vagina— 
 Length of the Normal Vagina—Its Structure and 
 Description—Mucous Lining and Glandular System 
 —The Uterus—General Description—Structural Of- 
 fice of the Uterus—Glands and Their Offices—Blood 
 Vessels—Appendages of the Uterus—The Ovaries— 
 Weight, Size and Form—The Fallopian Tubes—The 
 Ovum—Mammary Glands—Changes that Occur in 
 Them. 
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 Functions of the Sexual Organs 
 
 When Sexual Activity Begins—Changes that Oc- 
 cur in Both Sexes—The Age of Puberty—Sexual 
 
Acts Detrimental until Complete Physical Growth 
 is Achieved—How Sexual Vigor Manifests Itself— 
 Instructions for Properly Directing this Energy— 
 Radical Changes at Puberty in the Female—What 
 they Entail—Internal Changes—Functional Changes 
 —New Functions Appear—Menstruation—Theories 
 of this Phenomena—Accompaniments of Menstrua- 
 tion—Manifestations that Accompany the Function 
 —What it Should be Normally—Cause of Irregulari= 
 ties and Disturbances—Remedial Agencies and how 
 
 to Employ Them. 
 
 CHAPTER V 
 Lust 
 
 Normal Manifestations of Sexual Life—Forms of 
 Expression—Real Foundation of All Sexual Ills— 
 Lust and its Victims—The Cure for the Lust Malady 
 —Characteristics of the Lust Disease—Disorderly 
 Houses—What Statistics Reveal with Regard to 
 Lust and Lust Diseases—Degenerates—The Destruc= 
 tion ef Lust—Diseases that Surely Follow Lust— 
 Venereal Diseases and Prostitution—Popular Ideas 
 with Regard to Venereal Diseases—Effects of Ve= 
 neréal Diseases Upon Women—Social Evils Due to 
 Lust—How to Eradicate It from Your Mentality— 
 
Effect of Prostitution on General Public Health— 
 General Infection—What Makes Prostitutes—Womz- 
 en the Slaves of Lust—Erroneous Ideas of Virility— 
 
 How to Begin the Cure of Lust. 
 
 _ CHAPTER VI 
 Results of Lust 
 How Lust Reveals Itself—Secret Vice—The Great- 
 
 est of Sexual Evils—Its Baneful Effects—What 
 Mortality Reports Show—Some Alarming Figures— 
 Theories of Prevention— Physiological Instruction 
 Necessary—Best Methods are the Methods of Civil- 
 ization—Blurting Out Frightful Indecencies to Im- 
 mature Children No Way to Save Them from Vice— 
 What Results from Following the Advice of Idiots— 
 Proper Preventives—What Parents Should Do. 
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 Beginning of Physical Ruin 
 Ignorance of Parents—Sexual Precocity of Chil- 
 dren—A Mother’s Experience—Testimony of Educa- 
 tors—Secret Vice the Most Destructive Evil Prac= 
 tised—What It Produces—What a Boy Does Who 
 Becomes a Victim to this Vice—What Seminal 
 Losses Mean—Self-Abuse—Mental Diseases that 
 
Attend this Vice—Mistakes of Those Who Faii to 
 Overcome the Habit—Proper Habits to Cultivate— 
 Subterfuges—Worthless Advice of Physicians— 
 Marriage No Infallible Remedy—First Steps Tow- 
 ards Relief—Diet of Little Value—True Causes of 
 Incontinence—Teachings of the Misguided—The 
 Way of Escape. 
 
 CHAPTER Vill 
 Impairment of the Generative Function 
 
 Disease is Manifested in Abnormal Conditions— 
 Origin of Weakened Muscular Conditions—Obscure 
 Nervous Disorders—Symptomis of Sexual Derange= 
 ment—Drugs Pewerless—Nature’s Intent—Your 
 Powers are as Nature Made Them—Do Not Think 
 You can Make Them such as She Would Give to a 
 Goat—No Hope for the Gross and Bestial Who Suf- 
 fer from Sexual Derangement—The Desire for Ab- 
 
 normal Powers Inconsistent with Sexual Health. 
 
 CHAPTER IX 
 The Things That Wreck 
 
 Nervous System Master System of the Body—In=- 
 tent of Nature with Regard te Other Parts of the 
 Bedy—How Nervous Force is Lost—Things that 
 
Diminish Virility—The Intimate Connection Be=- 
 tween the Mind and Sexual Power—Hypochondriacs 
 —Belief in Weakened Virility Makes the Individual 
 Impotent—A Physician’s Experience—Wrong Ideas 
 at the Root of Most Supposed Cases of Impotency 
 —Some Plain Truths—Popular Fallacies—Theories 
 of Sexual Law—The Marital Relation—Human Mag-= 
 netism—Nature Has Set the Limit of Indulgence— 
 Excesses Mean Loss of Blood and Lowered Vitality 
 
 —The Beneficial Marriage—Hygiene of Marriage. 
 
 CHAPTER X 
 
 Fool Theories 
 Men Theorize About Everything—Some Crazy 
 Ideas About Sex that have been Made Public—Cus 
 rious Facts—Vice Flourishes Where Nudity and Sex 
 Familiarity Exist—These Fanatical and Radical 
 Sex Reformers Mostly Sexual Perverts—Limita- 
 tions of Marital Intercourse—Physical Balance the 
 Guide—Quacks and Nostrums—Aphrodisiacs Dan- 
 gerous—Fakirs and Their Dupes—Strange Delusions 
 
 of the Ancients—Follies of To-day. 
 
 CHAPTER XI 
 
 The Remedy 
 The Only Remedy for the Lust Disease—What 
 Drugs Do—Parents Should Learn One Important 
 
Truth—Habits to Cultivate—Appearance to Emulate 
 —Become an Enthusiast in Sports—Health Depen- 
 dent Upon Nutrition—General Exercise that is Bene= 
 ficial—Special Treatment Needed—Special Exercises 
 —IIlustrations and Complete Instructions for 
 Strengthening the Sexual System—How to Employ 
 these Exercises Remedially. 
 
 CHAPTER XII 
 
 Mental Poise 
 Importance of Mental Attitude in Treating Ner= 
 vous Disorders—One of the Essential Elements of 
 Cure—How Mental Healing Works—First Steps in 
 Mental Treatment—Wrong Ideas and Wrong Con- 
 clusions to be Swept from the Mind—The Proper 
 Mental Attitude—Little Drills for the Purpose of 
 Securing Menta! Control of Yourself—How Auto- 
 Suggestions are Made—Examples Illustrating Their 
 Application—General Cultivation of the Mental At- 
 titude—Experiments—Mental Drills—Concentration 
 
 and What It Does—General Instructions. 
 
 CHAPTER XIll 
 Miscellaneous Notes 
 Queries that Arise—Miscellaneous Information 
 
 Connected with Sex—Hermaphroditism—Bi-Sexuals 
 
ity a Myth—Explanations of Apparent Bi-Sexualism 
 —Sexual Degenerates—Strange Freaks that are the 
 Products of Lust and Hereditary Mental Taints—- 
 Curious Physiological Facts About These—Normal 
 Sexual Vigor and Physical Development Not Co= 
 related—Most Sexual Perverts Splendidly Devel- 
 oped and Well Muscled—Questions that Perplex 
 the Newly Married—Difficulty in Consummating the 
 Marriage—General Advice—The Delicacy of the Re- 
 lationship of Husband and Wife—Some Evils that 
 Result from Ignorance and Selfishness—The Phe= 
 nemena Attending Conception—Controlling the Sex 
 
 of Offspring. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV 
 
 Sexual Hygiene 
 Hints on Self-Treatment—Diet—Hydropathic Ap= 
 plications—Habits Essential to Sexual Health— 
 Colon Flushing—Directions for the Treatment of 
 Acute Inflammations—Gonorrhea and Syphilis— 
 Directions in Case of Local Swellings and Inflam- 
 
 mations. 
 
 CHAPTER XV 
 Momentum-Inertia Exercises 
 
PREFACE 
 This book is intended to supply the special in- 
 
 formation so much needed by a vast class of men 
 and women who have brought suffering on 
 themselves through ignorance, and who in their 
 efforts to acquire reliable information with re- 
 gard to self and the care of their bodies, are made 
 the victims ef schemes and worthless prepara- 
 tions 
 
 In previding a handbook on this important but 
 tabooed, subject, great care has been taken to con- 
 cisely present only the best and most reliable 
 information along the lines of common inquiry. 
 It has been our intent to make it plainly under- 
 standable by all; and a handbook useful in the 
 acquirement and maintenance ef that exquisitely 
 balanced health, which makes life a joy, and 
 
 existence one continual delight. 
 
 FALSE THEORIES 
 To do this we have found it necessary to ex- 
 
 pose some of the fads and foibles ef persons, 
 
who have launched upon the wrong course. It 
 has been necessary for us to present some phases 
 of abnormality that do not exist in very many 
 of the human species, but it is done for the pur- 
 pose of enlightening and enabling our readers 
 to rightly and thoroughly understand themselves, 
 to know their powers, to know how to husband 
 them, to understand the true secret of the regen- 
 erative processes, and how to apply it. 
 
 In this connection we must state flatly, for a 
 large class of men who will read this book, that 
 there is not a drug preparation known to 
 medicine but that will aggravate their troubles. 
 There is not an appliance made and sold, with 
 the exception of the suspensory bandage, 
 which will not still further weaken the organs, 
 and the powers that are affected. 
 
 If you aspire to true manhood, to good health, 
 to strength, to the control of all your powers, 
 the cure lies within yourself. It is something 
 you may reach out your hand and take; but it 
 
 is something that will have to be achieved by 
 
first understanding yourself, understanding the 
 tremendous part the will plays in all your acts, 
 and the application of that knowledge to the 
 control of your physical and mental expenditure 
 
 of energy. 
 
 NATURE’S WAY 
 
 Nature is a great mother. She works always 
 towards the development and the extension of 
 power; and life must be laid in accord with her 
 law, for it is the only way along which restora- 
 tion may be had. For those who have merely 
 overworked themselves, who have drained their 
 powers, and upon whom a mental disorder, due 
 to the excesses they have indulged in, has fas- 
 tened, there is not only hope, but absolute cer- 
 tainty of a cure, if they will conferm to the 
 methods of self-treatment set forth in the fol- 
 
 lowing pages. 
 
SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 CHAPTER T: 
 NECESSITY OF KNOWLEDGE OF SELF. 
 
 Many writers who have hurriedly embarked 
 upon the task of setting humanity right as to 
 sexual hygiene, have argued that physical de- 
 terioration is a fact, that longevity has been re- 
 duced, and vitality lowered, as humanity has 
 advanced in the scale of enlightenment and civi- 
 lization, and that those habits and practices of 
 luxury and vice, which all authorities recognize 
 as the most potent factors in weakening and de- 
 stroying, have marched apace with our strides 
 forward in the development of material comforts 
 
 and mental expansion. 
 
 THE RACE GROWING STRONGER 
 Wherever you find such a statement nail it 
 as false. While struggling from primitive con- 
 
 ditions of hardship and ignorance, the race has 
 
16 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 been struggling as strenuously to escape from its 
 heritage of vice bred in ignorance and days of 
 license. We as a race are getting stronger, men- 
 tally, morally and physically. We have had to 
 overcome many things, and one of the worst in- 
 fluences has been that theory of savagery, or 
 natural life, so called, which produced ideal 
 
 health and strength. 
 
 THE HABITS OF NAKED SAVAGES 
 DESTROY 
 
 We have but to cite the reader the theory of 
 “natural” living, disproved to the habits and con- 
 ditions of those nations and races which still live 
 the life of freedom, without morals, without men- 
 tal brakes, without bodily comforts, just as the 
 primitive man did. We find all the vices of hu- 
 manity that is civilized there, and many that have 
 been entirely eradicated from enlightened com- 
 munities. We find that “undeveloped” people 
 mature sooner, age quicker, and in the vast ma- 
 
 jority of eases, die quicker than the civilized man. 
 
NECESSITY OF KNOWLEDGE OF SELF L7: 
 
 And, if we turn to the pages of history, our 
 scanning will reveal that from the remotest pe- 
 riod that we have any records covering, there 
 has been a constant advance. A development 
 from a condition in which there were no morals, 
 in which animal instincts only were followed, 
 (and many that were worse than animal) towards 
 the condition of intelligent, law regulated living, 
 that enables the individual to achieve the degree 
 of mental, physical and moral development shown 
 to-day by the most advanced and conspicuous 
 
 examples of our system. 
 
 DO NOT EMULATE PRIMITIVE MAN 
 
 We state these particulars merely to show the 
 falsity of all claims on the part of the ill-advised 
 and ignorant that nakedness, early and complete 
 familiarity of the sexes with each other, the re- 
 moving of the so-called mystery of sex, which 
 certain writers have alleged that clothing and 
 
 civilized habits of concealment have promul- 
 
18 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 gated, would tend to eradicate sexual vice. All 
 
 experience tends to prove that the very first steps 
 
 taken away from vice and degenerating habits 
 occurred when society as a whole took cognizance 
 of the form and habits which have since become 
 common practices. 
 
 The primitive man, looming back there in 
 myth, a gigantic shadow, which may have been 
 a giant or a pigmy for what we know, is not the 
 thing to point to and emulate. We must seek 
 out types and ideals nearer at hand, and they 
 must be found among the habits that mankind 
 holds to-day. 
 
 We shall go further in a later chapter and show 
 that it is not nearly so much the habits of living, 
 as the habits of thinking that cause degeneracy, 
 that provide wrecks. And, without the moral 
 guides, restrictions and bars which we have, it 
 is horrible to contemplate what the mental at- 
 titude towards sexual matters would soon be- 
 
 come. We fear that if any of the theories of 
 
NECESSITY OF KNOWLEDGE OF SELF 19 
 
 the so-called sexual reformers could be put into 
 practice that in a very little while utter and 
 
 complete annihilation of the race would result. 
 
 THE NATURE OF THE SEXUAL 
 SYSTEMS 
 
 It is essential that every individual should 
 know something about the physiological and ana- 
 tomical structure of the procreative organs, as 
 well as their functions. In general terms, the 
 sexual organs of the male may be called the nether 
 brain. In the nerves that emanate from them 
 and enter into the structure of the testes, there is 
 a larger percentage of the same sort of matter 
 that is found in the brain than we find anywhere 
 else in the body outside of the brain proper. 
 The semen, or life fluid, is manufactured by sonie 
 mysterious processes within the cells of the testes, 
 and for this purpose, a supply of the best and| 
 purest blood must be supplied direct from the 
 heart. It is the accepted theory of the leading 
 
20 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 scientists that where abnormal conditions have 
 not been induced, the manufacture of semen 
 from the blood occurs very slowly at all times, 
 
 save when the individual is under strong sexual 
 
 excitement, and that the mechanical arrange- 
 ment of the parts provides for its slow reab- 
 sorption into the blood current again. In sup- 
 port of this theory it is cited that at the age of 
 puberty, when the secretion first sets in, if the 
 habits have been clean, and the life right, the 
 only manifestations are those found in the change 
 of voice, end growth of beard, and these new 
 developments at this juncture are imputed to 
 the highly concentrated matter secreted by the 
 testes and reabsorbed by the blood. 
 
 DELICATE NATURE OF THE ORGANS 
 
 The exceedingly delicate structure of the sexual 
 appartus is such, however, and the relation to the 
 nervous system so intimate, that if habits of sen- 
 
 suality have been established, the secretion goes 
 
NECESSITY OF KNOWLEDGE OF SELF | 
 
 on faster than absorption can take place, and 
 consequently there is a drain, either in inconti- 
 
 nent emissions, or dreams. 
 
 SEXUAL WEAKNESS BLOOD WEAKE- 
 NESS 
 
 The weakening effect of these cannot be over- 
 estimated. The amount of blood necessary to 
 produce the semen lost by one emission is such 
 that drawing a gill direct from the arteries would 
 not hurt one physically more; and where the evil 
 habits are carried to the extent they sometimes 
 are, the blood becomes watery, the patient anemic, 
 and the nervous powers are entirely wrecked. 
 The baneful effects of these disturbances are not 
 confined to the locality of the sexual organs 
 alone; although excesses always have a direct 
 effect upon them; but the most potential for the 
 health of the being occur in the brain. The 
 nerve connections of the sexual system with the 
 brain are extensive and complicated. Any ex- 
 
 citement of the sexual system is instantly repro- 
 
22 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 duced among the brain cells, and where the ex- 
 citement is long continued, and of an unnatural 
 order, there is a species of brain congestion set 
 up that invariably results in weakened mentality 
 and in many cases in pitiful forms of insanity. 
 The asylums are full of hopeless idiots who 
 were victims of self-abuse, and who literally 
 robbed themselves of brains, vigor and health. 
 And self-abuse alone is not the only thing that 
 tends to produce these conditions. Excesses of any 
 kind, allied with habits of using such stimulants 
 as tobacco and liquor to excess, tend to produce 
 the same results. They may be a little tardier 
 in showing, but the physiological effects are 
 
 practically the same, though of smaller degree. 
 
CHAP OE RATT: 
 MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 
 
 The male organs of generation, which, next 
 to the brain and spinal column, possess the great- _ 
 est quantity of nerves of any part of the human 
 body, consist of the penis and the testes, with 
 
 their appendages. 
 
 THE PENIS 
 The penis is the organ of copulation, and is 
 divided, anatomically, into a root, body and ex- 
 tremity, or glans penis. The root is broad and 
 firmly connected to the lower part of the abdomi- 
 nal wall by two fibrous processes, and a ligament, 
 
 called the suspensory ligament. 
 
 GLANS PENIS 
 The extremity or glans penis, resembles an ob- 
 
 tuse cone, with a vertical slit at its apex, termed 
 23 
 
24 ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Cross-section of the Penis. 
 
 1. Dorsal vein.—z2. Dorsal arteries—3. Cor- 
 pus cavernosum.—4. Tunica albuginea.—s5. Skin. 
 
 —6. Corpus spongiosum.—7. Uretha. 
 
MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 25 
 
 the meatus urianus, which is the orifice of the 
 urethra. At the back part of this orifice is a fold 
 of mucous membrane, passing backward to a de- 
 pressed raphe, termed the froenum prepuiu. The 
 rounded projecting border of the base of the 
 glands is termed the corona glandis; behind the 
 corona is a deep constriction, the cervix. On 
 each of these parts are numerous glands which 
 secrete a sebaceous matter of peculiar odor. 
 
 The body of the penis is covered by skin re- 
 markable for its thinness and the absence of 
 adipose tissue. When erect it becomes some- 
 what triangular in form with rounded angles, 
 the broadest side, called the dorsum, being up- 
 ward. At the neck of the glans the integument 
 leaves the surface of the penis and becomes 
 
 folded upon itself, forming the prepuce. 
 
 STRUCTURE 
 The body of the penis is composed of erectile 
 
 vissue, inclosed in three cylindrical compart- 
 
 ments. Two of these compartments, the corpora 
 
26 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 cavernosa, are arranged side by side along its 
 upper part; the third, the corpus spongiosum, is 
 placed below, and encloses the urethra, or canal, 
 that extends the whole length of the penis. 
 These parts of the penis present an intricate 
 plexus of blood vessels, capable of receiving a 
 large amount of blood in states of excitement and 
 congestion. The arteries that supply this blood 
 come from the internal pudic artery. It also pre- 
 sents a very intricate arrangement of nerves, 
 which also arise internally coming from the in- 
 ternal pudic nerve. The organ has two sets of 
 lymphatic vessels, one on the surface, and the 
 other within. 
 
 The male urethra extends from the neck of 
 the bladder to the external opening at the ex- 
 tremity of the glans penis. Its length, in adults, 
 is usually eight or nine inches; its course has a 
 double curve, when the organ is in a flaccid state, 
 
 but when it is erect, it forms a single curve from 
 
MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION yen 
 
 the opening of the bladder to the extremity of 
 the organ. 
 
 The urethra is divided by anatomists into 
 three parts, or portions; the prostatic, the mem- 
 branous and the spongy. The prostatic portion 
 is the widest and most dilatable part, and passes 
 through the prostate gland. It is about an inch 
 and a quarter in length. Upon the floor of the 
 canal at this point is a narrow ridge of tissue, 
 which, when distended, serves to prevent the 
 passage of semen backward into the bladder. 
 
 The membranous portion of the urethra ex- 
 tends between the apex of the prostate and the 
 bulb of the corpus spongiosum. The spongy 
 portion is the longest part of the urethra, and ex- 
 tends from a little beyond where the organ leaves 
 the body, to the extremity. The meatus urianus 
 is the external orifice of the canal, and is the most 
 
 constricted point in it. 
 
 THE PROSTATE GLANYDD 
 The prostate gland is a small glandular body, 
 
28 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Bladder and 
 Urethra. 
 
 rt. Interior of 
 bladder.—2. Ure- 
 thra, its spongy 
 portion.—3. Cor- 
 pus cavernosum.— 
 4. Fasso Navicul- 
 oris.—5 5. Glans 
 penis.—6 6. Sep- 
 tum of corpus cav- 
 ernosum.—7. Crus 
 penis.—8 8. Pros- 
 tate gland.—g 9. 
 Cowper’s gland.— 
 10’ 10." Uretetrs.— 
 11, Meatus uri- 
 omes.—12. Orifice 
 of the ureters.—13. 
 Orifices of ducts of 
 Cowper’s gland. 
 
MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 29 
 
 surrounding the neck of the bladder, and the 
 commencement of the urethra. In shape and size 
 it resembles a horse-chestnut. It secretes a milky 
 fluid, having an acid reaction. The gland fre- 
 quently becomes enlarged, and its ducts filled 
 
 with concretions, especially in old age. 
 
 COWPER’S GLANDS 
 Cowper’s glands are two lobulated bodies, each 
 
 about the size of a pea, situated beneath the 
 fore part of the membranous portion of the 
 urethra. The excretory duct of each gland is 
 nearly an inch in length, and they have minute 
 openings on the floor of the urethra. They di- 
 minish in size in advanced age. These glands 
 and the prostate are accessory organs, and mainly 
 
 produce mucous secretions. 
 
 “THE TESTES 
 The testes are the glandular organs which 
 
 secrete semen. They are situated in the scrotum, 
 
 being suspended from the body by the spermatic 
 
380 ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 The Testis. 
 
 I. Testis. — 2. 
 Head of epedidy- 
 mis.—3. Body of 
 same.—4. Tunica 
 vaginalis.—s. Cre- 
 master.— 6. Ar- 
 tery of spermatie 
 cord.—z7. Sper- 
 matic cord .—8. 
 
 Tail of epididymis. 
 
MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 3h 
 
 cord, and surrounded by a coating of integument, 
 which, with its various layers, blood vessels, 
 etc., is called the scrotum. At the back of each 
 testis is a small flattened body, termed the epi- 
 didymis. The testes are compound tubular 
 glands, with numerous lobules, estimated at from 
 250 to 400. Each lobule is of a conical shape, 
 the base being directed toward the circumference 
 of the organ. The tubes may be separately un- 
 raveled by careful dissection. Their diameter is 
 from one-two-hundredth to one-one-hundred-and- 
 fiftieth of an inch. The openings of these tubules 
 become convoluted at their apices, and unite to 
 form twenty to thirty larger ducts, which are 
 called the vasa recta. These pass upward and 
 backward, to form a number of ducts varying 
 from 12 to 20, which carry the seminal fluid from 
 the testes to the epididymis. 
 
 The Vas Deferens is a continuation of the 
 epididymis, and is the true excretory duct of the 
 
 testis. It ascends along the inner side of the 
 
32 ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Testicle and Epididymis of the Human 
 Subject. 
 
 A. Testicle. B 
 Fig, & B BB. Lobules 
 g of testicle—C C. 
 i* Vasa Recta. —D 
 + D. Rete testes.— 
 E E. Vas efferen- 
 tia.--F F F. Cones 
 of the globus ma- 
 jor of the branches 
 of the spermatic 
 artery to the tes- 
 ticle and epididy- 
 mis. —— Na NaN. 
 Ramification of 
 the artery upon 
 the testicle. — O. 
 Deferential ar- 
 tery.—P. Anosto- 
 mosis. 
 
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 “ ¥ meh 
 ae 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 83 
 
 Wile 4 ; 
 Wi, i 
 
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 YELL 
 iis 
 
 GSinns poeularis 
 ” op Utriculug 
 
 Couper? Glend. | ‘( 
 
 Vertical Section of the Bladder, Penis and 
 Urethra. 
 
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 84 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 testis, through the spermatic canal to the inner 
 abdominal ring. Its walls are very thick, but — 
 the canal exceedingly small, measuring but half 
 
 a line. 
 
 THE SPERMATIC CORD 
 
 The spermatic cords which, as has been 
 stated, suspend the testes from the body are com- 
 posed of arteries, veins, nerves, lymphatics and 
 the vas deferens. They extend from the internal 
 abdominal ring to the back of the testes. The 
 left cord is usually longer than the right, which 
 causes the left testicle to hang lower than the 
 right. 
 
 The seminal vesicles are two membranous 
 pouches between the base of the bladder and the 
 rectum. They serve as reservoirs for the semen, 
 and secrete a fluid which is mixed with that of 
 the testicles. Each vesicle consists of a single 
 tube coiled upon itself. 
 
 The ejaculatory ducts, one on each side, are 
 
MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 85 
 
 formed by the conjunction of the vesicula and 
 
 vas deferens. 
 
 THE SEMEN 
 The semen is a thick, whitish fluid, having a 
 
 peculiar odor. It consists of a fluid portion, 
 
 called the liquor seminis, and solid particles, 
 
 termed spermatazao. 
 
 The spermatazoids are the essential elements of 
 impregnation. These spermatazoa are each about 
 one-five-thousandth of an inch long, one eight- 
 thousandth of an inch broad, and one-twenty-five- 
 thousandth of an inch thick. They each have 
 the power of moving, and under the microscope 
 their movements in the liquor seminalis may be 
 plainly observed. The seminal fluid, during 
 adult life, always contains these spermatazoa, 
 though their number varies greatly according to 
 circumstances. If sexual intercourse be frequent 
 the number of spermatazoids in the seminal fluid 
 becomes greatly diminished, and in some cases, 
 almost entirely absent. From careful compari- 
 
86 _ SEXUAL VITALITY «._.. 
 
 sons and experiments it has been deduced by-some 
 European scientists that the average number. of 
 spermatazoids in one ejaculation of semen of 
 an adult man is 226,257,000. Although Nature 
 is thus bounteous in providing the necessary ele- 
 ments for the perpetuation of life, continued 
 sexual indulgence invariably causes the number 
 to diminish, and sometimes to become absent 
 altogether. Children begotten of fathers who 
 are sensualists, are, as a general thing, weak 
 and far from the finest form, and less highly en- 
 dowed mentally and physically, than offspring be- 
 gotten by men who preserve their vitality and 
 vigor, and keep themselves in condition to en- 
 dow their offspring with all their finer and higher 
 
 attributes. 
 
CHAPTER IIL. 
 
 FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 
 
 The sexual organs of woman are the Mons 
 Veneris, the Labia Majora, the Labia Minora, the 
 Clitoris, the Vagina, the Uterus, the Fallopian 
 tubes and the Ovaries. 
 
 The Mons Veneris is the prominence in front 
 of the pubes, and at the period of puberty is 
 covered with hair. It consists of a collection of 
 
 adipose matter beneath the skin. 
 
 LABIA MAJORA 
 The Labia Majora are the longitudinal cutane- 
 ous folds, extending from the Mons Veneris. to 
 the perineum and enclosing the sexual: opening. 
 They are formed externally of integument cov- 
 ered with hair, and internally of mucous mem- 
 brane. Within the lower part of this opening is 
 87 
 
838 ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 “ll, ed 
 \, Ly 
 
 Section of the Female Pelyis, showing posi- 
 tion of the organs. 
 
FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 89 
 
 a transverse fold of mucous membrane, called the 
 fourchette, and which is commonly ruptured in 
 the first birth. 
 
 LABIA MINORA 
 
 The Labia Minora are two small folds of 
 mucous membrane within the Labia Majora, ex- 
 tending from the clitoris downward and outward 
 for about an inch and a half on each side of the 
 opening of the vagina. They are provided with 
 numerous large mucous crypts, which secrete se- 
 baceous matter in abundance. The structure and 
 situation of these seem very clearly to indicate 
 that it is to press the clitoris more firmly upon 
 the dorsum of the penis in the act of coition, and 
 also, perhaps, to compress in some degree the 
 male organ. Sexual pleasure upon the part of 
 the female depends to a ereat extent upon the 
 
 vigor and intensity of this tissue. 
 
 THE CLITORIS 
 
 The clitoris is a small erectile structure, and 
 
4) ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
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 ) m4 eis f 
 
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 AN 
 
 AWN 
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 N\ 
 
 D8 | 
 7 Lip Lourchele 
 
 OSS RNAUT CR « 
 
 lars 
 
 XS 
 
 The Vulva—External female organ of gen- 
 eration. 
 
FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 41 
 
 regarded as the principal organ of sexual pleas- 
 ure in the female, for which purpose it is plenti- 
 fully supplied with nerves. It is situated a little 
 back of the meatus urianus, and is partly hidden 
 between the folds of the Labia Minora. Its body 
 is hidden beneath the labia, and its free extremity, 
 termed the glan clitoridis, is a small rounded 
 tubercle, consisting of spongy erectile tissue, and 
 is highly sensitive. 
 
 The opening of the female urethra is situated 
 just back of the clitoris, and near the orifice of 
 the vagina. A prominent elevation of mucous 
 
 membrane surrounds it. 
 
 THE HYMEN 
 The hymen is a thin fold of mucous membrane 
 extending across the lower part of the orifice of 
 the vagina. Sometimes this membrane is thick 
 and tough, retarding the discharge of the men- 
 strual fluid, and proving a successful barrier to 
 
 sexual intercourse. The hymen is often de- 
 
42 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 stroyed by disease, and other causes, and is by 
 no means to be considered a proof of virginity. 
 
 The glands of Bartholine are analogues of the 
 Cowper’s glands of the male. They are situated 
 at each side of the opening of the vagina. 
 
 Each gland is about the size of a horse bean, 
 and opens through a single duct just within the 
 labia minora. They are surrounded by a plex- 
 
 ous of veins. 
 
 THE VAGINA 
 The vagina is a membranous canal lying in 
 
 the centre of the pelvis. Its direction is curved 
 forward and downward. Its length is about four 
 inches along its anterior wall, and five or six 
 inches along its posterior wall. It is narrow and 
 constricted at its commencement, but becomes 
 dilated near the uterine extremity. It is attached 
 to the neck of the uterus a little above the mouth 
 of the womb, so that the mouth of the womb pro-. 
 jects a short distance into the vaginal canal. Its 
 
 structure consists of an external muscular coat, 
 
FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 43 
 
 a layer of erectile tissue, and an internal mucous 
 coat, or lining. The erectile tissue is more 
 abundant at the lower than at the upper part of 
 the vagina. The mucous lining of the vagina 
 is continuous above with that which lines the 
 uterus, and below with the integument which 
 covers the labia majora. There are numerous 
 ridges, or ruguae, lying along the posterior part 
 of the vagina, especially near the orifice. These 
 are more pronounced in females who have never 
 
 given birth to children. 
 
 THE UTERUS 
 
 The uterus is properly the organ of gestation. 
 Its office is to retain and support the fecundated 
 ovum during the period of development of foetal 
 life. In the virgin state it is pear-shaped, oc- 
 cupying that part of the pelvic cavity lying be- 
 tween the bladder and the rectum, measuring 
 two and a half to three inches in length, two 
 inches in breadth and about an inch in thickness. 
 
 At its vaginal extremity is a transverse aperture, 
 
44 ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 £ 
 
 —_———37 Se ee 
 Fig. 21. Virgin Uterus. 
 A. ANTERIOR VIEW. 1. Body.—2, 2. Angles. 
 —3. Cervix.—4. Site of the internum.—5. Vagi- 
 nal portion of the servix.—6. External os.—7, 7. 
 Vagina. 
 
 B. MeEpIAN SEcTION. 1, I. Profile of the 
 posterior surface.—2. Vesico-uterine cul de sac. 
 —3, 3. Profile of the posterior surface.—4. Body. 
 —5. Neck.—6. Isthmus.—7. Cavity of the body. 
 —8. Cavity of the cervix.—g. Os Internum.—1o. 
 Anterior lip of the os externum.—11. Posterior 
 lip.—12, 12 Vagina. 
 
 C. TRANSVERSE SECTION. 1. Cavity of the 
 body.—2. Lateral wall—3. Superior wall.—4, 4. 
 Cornua.—5. Os internum.—6. Cavity of the cer- 
 vix.—7. Arbor vitae of the cervix.—8. Os ex- 
 
 ternum.—9, 9. Vagina, 
 
FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 45 
 
 called the os uteri, or mouth of the womb, bound- 
 ed by an anterior lip, which is thick, and a pos- 
 terior one, long and narrow. The cavity of the 
 uterus is comparatively small, the upper portion 
 corresponding to the body of the organ, being 
 triangular. The structure of the uterus consists 
 of three coats. The external is serous, the mid- 
 dle muscular and the internal mucous. The chief 
 weight and bulk of the organ is due to the muscu- 
 
 lar coat. 
 
 STRUCTURE OF THE ORGANS 
 The mucous lining of the uterus is continuous, 
 
 through the fallopian tubes with the peritoneum, 
 and through the mouth of the womb with the 
 mucous lining of the vagina. Around the mouth 
 of the womb are numerous follicles and glands, 
 all of which excrete into the vagina. 
 
 The uterus is remarkably rich in arteries, 
 which are peculiar by reason of their tortuous 
 course. The veins are large and correspond in 
 
 arrangement with the arteries, In an impreg- 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 46 
 
 The Uterus and Its Appendages. 
 
FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 47 
 
 nated state the veins are termed the “uterine 
 sinuses.” 
 
 During the menstrual period, which begins at 
 puberty and ends at between forty and fifty in 
 the woman’s life the uterus becomes enlarged, 
 and during pregnancy it increases in weight to 
 
 from two to three pounds. 
 
 UTERINE APPENDAGES 
 The appendages of the uterus are the fallopian 
 
 tubes, the ovaries and their ligaments. The 
 fallopian tubes are the oviducts which connect 
 the ovaries with the womb. Each oviduct is 
 about four inches in length, and extends from 
 each superior angle of the uterus to the ovaries. 
 The canal, or opening, running through these 
 “tubes is very small. Near the ovary each tube 
 widens into a trumpet-shaped extremity. The 
 Ovarian orifice is surrounded by fringe-like pro- 
 
 cesses, termed fimbriae. 
 
 THE OVARIES 
 The ovaries are oval-shaped, and in structure 
 
48 dye ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 M... Pubes—A A. Hypogastric arteries, sper- 
 
 matic vessels and nerves behind the ovaries.— 
 B. Bladder—L L. Round ligaments.—U. 
 ‘Uterus—T a Fallopian tubes—F. Fimbri- 
 ated extremity of tubes.—B. Broad ligament of 
 the uterus—O O. Ovaries.—R. Rectum.—G. 
 
 Right ureter—C. Utero-sacral ligaments. 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 49 
 
 Uterine Cavity 
 
 Section of the uterus about eight days after 
 impregnation. A. Cervix or neck of the womb.— 
 B B. Orifices of the fallopian tubes.—C. Decidua 
 
 vera.—D. Cavity of the uterus. 
 
50 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 quite analagous to the male testes. Each ovary 
 is about an inch and a half long, and three quar- 
 ters of an inch in thickness, and they weigh from 
 one-eighth to one-quarter of an ounce. The 
 structure of the ovary is spongy. It contains a 
 number of small cells, traversed by blood vessels. 
 In the meshes of this structure are many small 
 sacs, containing ova in various stages of develop- 
 ment, and these are called the Graafian vesicles. 
 In women who have not borne children they — 
 vary in number from ten to twenty,,and in size 
 
 from that of a pin’s head to the size of a pea. 
 
 THE OVA 
 The ovum, or egg, from which life is devel- 
 oped, is exceedingly minute, measuring one-two- 
 hundredth of an inch in diameter, and consists 
 of an external covering of transparent substance, 
 and internally of a small viscid body, imbedded 
 
 in a substance somewhat similar to the yolk of an 
 
 egg. 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Ovum Entering the Uterus, 
 
 ‘61 
 
52 SEXUAL VITALITY ’ 
 MAMMARY GLANDS 
 
 The mammary glands belong to the reproduc- 
 tive system. Their office is to supply food in its 
 fluid form until the teeth of the infant are suff- 
 ciently developed to enable it to masticate solid 
 aliment. They exist in a rudimentary state in 
 the male, and when excited by peculiar circum- 
 stances have been known to secrete milk. 
 
 They are situated in the pectoral region, ex- 
 tending from the middle of the sternum to the 
 arm-pit. They are of small size before puberty, 
 but are enlarged as the generative organs become 
 more developed. They increase in size during 
 pregnancy, and enlarge very rapidly after de- 
 livery. They become atrophied in old age. 
 
 Near, and a little below the centre of each 
 mamma, its outer surface presents a small conical 
 prominence, the nipple, which is surrounded by 
 an areola, having a colored tint. Before im- 
 pregnation the color is crimson, or a delicate 
 
 pink; after impregnation it deepens and assumes 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Uterus Nearly Filled with the Ovum. 
 
 68 
 
$4. SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 a brownish hue, which after the birth of a child 
 continues through life. The nipple consists of 
 numerous vessels, which form a kind of erectile 
 tissue, intermixed with muscular fibre. 
 
 The areola is provided with sebaceous glands, 
 which secrete a substance of fatty consistence for 
 the protection of the delicate covering of the 
 
 nipple. 
 
CHAPTER Iv: 
 THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS. 
 
 Functional activity is not manifest in either 
 the male or female sexual organs of the human 
 being during the first sixth of its normal life, or 
 until about the 12th to the 15th year. Then the 
 sexual life begins, and its beginning is indicated 
 by various constitutional changes and external 
 manifestations. 
 
 The changes that mark the beginning of such 
 activity in the male, while they themselves are 
 permanent, are not such as affect the physiologi- 
 cal nature to any extent, and they do not cause 
 the individual any degree of discomfort or an- 
 noyance. On the other hand, the changes that 
 then take place in the female, are themselves 
 of the gravest character, and they introduce pe- 
 riodic functions of the organs, that continue to 
 occur during the sexual life of the being, and 
 
 55 
 
56 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 which play a very important part in the individ- 
 
 ual’s general health and character. 
 
 PUBERTY 
 Among all civilized nations, of temperate cli- 
 
 mates, the period of sexual maturity or puberty 
 arrives between the years of 12 and 16. Up to 
 that time the boy is merely a boy. He has a pip- 
 ing, feminine voice, his face is smooth, and his 
 form is slender and graceful. Then his voice 
 changes to bass, hair begins to grow on the face, 
 under the arms and on the pubic region of the 
 abdomen; the frame fills out, muscles begin to 
 develop, and the youth rapidly ripens into a man. 
 When the age of puberty arrives the male is 
 then capable of becoming a father, but it does 
 not signify that the function should be exer- 
 cised. At that period the body is still far from 
 mature. The bones have not hardened; the 
 growth has not been completed, and the brain is 
 far from its adult size, or form. It follows that 
 
 any child begot at that period (and observation 
 
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS 57 
 
 bears out the truth of this assumption) would be 
 of an inferior type, and incapable of resisting 
 disease to such an extent, or developing into the 
 finer types that are the children of mature parents. 
 Observation of the most careful and painstaking 
 sort, also prove that sexual gratification at the 
 period from the appearance of puberty, until the 
 body has reached its growth is detrimental, and 
 is without the intents and design of nature. 
 Hundreds of youths stunt their physical and men- 
 tal powers by illicit indulgence at these early 
 periods, and scores in every community bring 
 
 disease and early death to themselves through 
 their folly. 
 
 MANIFESTATIONS 
 There always begins at this first period of 
 sexual activity, increased energy. The testes 
 will produce semen under stimulation, and it is 
 the period for the youth to be put in the way of 
 starting upon his career in life. His calling 
 should be fixed by that time, and the newly de- 
 
58 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 veloped energies that will begin to be manifested 
 should have this channel to escape into, instead 
 of being fed on idleness, and lead the individual 
 
 to habits of sensuality and destruction. 
 
 CHANGES IN THE FEMALE AT 
 PUBERTY 
 
 In our country the female reaches the age of 
 nubility or puberty at ages varying from twelve 
 to fifteen years. The changes that appear in the 
 external form of the individual are some- 
 what similar in character to those that appear in 
 the male. The form begins to round out, fatty 
 cells, in groups, develop about the neck and 
 shoulders, and on the abdomen, and the form of 
 womanhood is slowly developed from the straight 
 simplicity of girlhood; and there are growths of 
 hair under the arms and in the pubic region, and 
 
 the breast begins to appear. 
 
 INTERNAL CHANGES 
 But these are the mere external manifestations. 
 
 Internally more tremendous changes have taken 
 
THER FUNCTIONS OF THE SEXUAL URGANS 59 
 
 place. At this time, the ovaries begin to ripen 
 an ovum each month, and this they keep up with 
 varying interludes, until the menupause, which oc- 
 curs at about the 45th year. When the ovum is 
 matured in the ovary, it is forced down through 
 the Fallopian tube, into the womb, where it is 
 either impregnated by the spermatozoaof the male 
 (if intercourse occurs at the proper time) or, 
 after being preserved there for an indeterminate 
 period, it passes out of the body, and the pro- 
 cess of maturing another ovum goes on. If the 
 ovum that is sent down to the uterus is impreg- 
 rated, there will not be another matured until the 
 period of gestation and lactation is complete, but 
 if such impregnation does not occur within 
 twenty-eight days, or one lunar month, another 
 evum will be matured, and it will descend to the 
 uterus. | 
 
 Following this monthly development and fall- 
 
 ing of the ovum, there comes a peculiar physio- 
 
60 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 logical condition throughout the sexual tract of 
 
 the female. 
 
 MENSTRUATION 
 All the blood vessels, capillaries, and veins, that 
 
 feed the tract, and especially those that lie with- 
 in the membranes that line the Fallopian tubes, 
 the uterus, and the vagina, become engorged and 
 greatly swollen. The parts themselves are en- 
 larged, and in most cases this engorgement re- 
 sults in the bursting of many of the capillaries 
 of the mucous lining, and there is a discharge of 
 blood and mucous from the organs, for a period 
 of from three to five days. 
 
 There have been a variety of theories advanced 
 on the subject of menstruation. A great many 
 competent persons hold now that it is not a nat- 
 ural function; that the engorgement and burst- 
 ing of blood vessels, and consequent loss of 
 blood, and loss of energy accompanying the func- 
 tion, is something that has been acquired by our 
 
 women through years of artificial habits, and ar- 
 
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS 61 
 
 tificial living. In support of this theory they 
 cite us to the habits and conditions of the woman 
 of such savage tribes as live out of doors, and 
 lead very active lives. With them the function 
 is almost devoid of pain and discomfort, and 
 there is no loss of blood. They go further, and 
 show that even among domesticated animals there 
 is a tendency on the part of the female to develop 
 the menstrual phenomenon, even when it does 
 not exist in the wild types of the same species. 
 However this may be among the women of 
 civilized nations, it is a universal occurrence. It 
 begins when the individual arrives at the age 
 of puberty and continues, with only such in- 
 terruptions as are afforded by illness, or impreg- 
 
 nations, until the period of fertility is over 
 
 PHENOMENA 
 There is a very wide difference in its mani- 
 
 festation among women. Some experience very 
 slight discomfort from the function, and lose 
 
 very little blood, others are really seriously ill 
 
62 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 for a period of varying length, and flow exces- 
 sively. Under normal conditions, as they relate 
 to the beings of to-day, the function should not 
 occasion any great degree of pain, and should 
 not be accompanied by any loss of vitality or 
 energy. Unfortunately such examples are the 
 exception instead of the rule among the women 
 of our day. The disturbances due to this func- 
 tion, and the ills that result, are the most common 
 the physician has to treat, and a woman free 
 from them is an exceptional type. 
 
 This brings us to the subject of the irregular- 
 ities that occur in this connection. There are 
 three forms of abnormality, which should be un- 
 derstood, and care taken to avoid, or remedy, 
 if they have appeared. 
 
 MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITIES 
 These are, deficient menstruation, excessive 
 
 flowing, and painful menstruation. All of them 
 are the results of the habits and environment of 
 
 the individual., Nine-tenths of such irregular- 
 
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS 68 
 
 ities may justly be imputed to the habits of dress 
 of women. Any form of dress that continually 
 tends to hinder, or stop the free circulation of 
 blood in the pelvic region, is a potent factor in 
 producing one form or the other of these irreg- 
 ularities. Diet and occupation have much to 
 do with it. Deficient menstruation may be traced 
 in almost every instance to deficient nutrition, 
 due either to ignorance of the proper foods to 
 eat, inability to secure them, or the inability of 
 the digestive apparatus of the individual to prop- 
 
 erly prepare the food that is eaten. 
 
 REMEDIAL AGENCIES 
 Habits of exposing the body to unwonted 
 
 changes of temperature, uncleanliness, lack of ex- 
 ercise, etc., all play their part in bringing about 
 such conditions. Whatever the form of abnor- 
 mality is, it should not be permitted to go along 
 unremedied. Graver troubles invariably follow. 
 
 The best remedial measures we can recommend, 
 are included in the lines of exercise, frequent 
 
64 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 bathing, and the adoption of a wholesome, nu- 
 tritious diet. For the purpose of exercising, the 
 patient may adopt those given in a separate chap- 
 ter, for the stimulation of the sexual tract, tak- 
 ing as many of them as possible in a reclining 
 position, and stopping the exercises as soon as 
 the first indication of approaching menstruation 
 occurs, and not beginning them again, until the 
 signs have disappeared. A few months of this 
 training, and plenty of out-of-door exercise, 
 walking, etc., will remedy the most stubborn case 
 
 of irregularity. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 LUST. 
 
 The law of sexual intercourse,as demonstrated 
 in the light of the world’s experience, and the ex- 
 perience of individuals, is that it should be con- 
 tingent upon the desire of two persons capable of 
 begetting and bearing children to live together 
 in the bonds of wedlock. That should be the 
 sum total of its expression, but oriental vices, 
 lascivious literature, general ignorance on the 
 subject, and morbid curiosity have resulted in en- 
 dowing the sexual nature of most perzons with 
 a secondary and lustful characteristic. 
 
 THE CAUSE OF SEXUAL DiEKRANGE- 
 MENT 
 
 This is the real foundation of all sexual ills 
 and derangements, and is itself a derangement 
 of the mental bearings in the individual. Lust, 
 whether it is the sort that leads the uncot:trolled 
 
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66 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 negro to assault and outrage an infant, or merely 
 the kind that prompts the thoughtless young man 
 to go prowling in the night, seeking the haunts 
 of those who pander to lust, is the same, and is — 
 a sign of disease, of departure from the well-bal- 
 anced organism in both. This was first recog- 
 nized as a form of physical and moral disease as 
 far back as the time of Chaucer. 
 
 It follows, therefore, that in order to effect a 
 cure in a great many of those obscure ailments 
 that arise in and through the wrong use of the 
 sexual system, must be dependent upon the 
 cleansing of the mind of the rust and dust of 
 lust, that has been permitted to cumber it, to the 
 
 individual’s great injury. 
 
 THE ‘«* LUST DISEASE’ 
 This “lust disease,’ which affects every one, to 
 
 a greater or less extent, is the thing that every in- 
 dividual should recognize and seek to combat. 
 With it being fed by habits of thinking, the 
 
 literature one reads, the plays one sees, the food 
 
LUST 67 
 
 one eats, there is a very grave condition confront- 
 ing every one who would seek to increase the 
 manliness of the race, and to curtail its vice. 
 This lust disease is the great enemy of all 
 races at the present time. Its loathsome char- 
 acteristics underlie all the causes that reform 
 would remove. It is back of the disorderly 
 houses, back of prostitution, back of divorce, and 
 all the ills that threaten and attack society, just 
 
 as it is the primary cause and producer of half 
 
 the physical ills that threaten the physical well ~ 
 
 being of the race. 
 
 No work on this subject would be complete 
 that ceased at giving the anatomical and physio- 
 logical description of the sexual organism. The 
 individual must be schooled beyond knowing the 
 physiological names and functions of the sexual 
 system; he must be taught its psychological as- 
 pects and the tremendous havoc being played by 
 this disease of the sexual nature—omnipresent 
 
 lust. 
 
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 WHAT VITAL STATISTICS SHOW 
 
 Those who live in our cities and are familiar 
 with the police court history and political history 
 of their cities are aware of what a tremendous 
 part lust, and its instruments, the prostitute and 
 disorderly resorts, play in the economical rela- 
 tions of the city’s government. 
 
 Very few are aware of the pathological part it 
 plays. In a general way people realize that very 
 lustful men and women are in some way a menace 
 to good society, to good manners and good habits 
 and that their practices are odious, and they are 
 kept out of the best circles of society as much as 
 possible. Once in a while one creeps in who is 
 thus tainted, and sooner or later there is a scan- 
 dal which does much to disrupt homes, friend- 
 ships, and leaves a trail of lasting infamy and 
 
 dishonor. 
 
 DIRECTIONS IN WHICH LUST WORKS 
 DESTRUCTION 
 
 This is but one direction the lust disease works 
 
 for evil. It has its physical evils, as well as its 
 
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 moral, if those are not enough to deter one from 
 giving way to this mental disorder, instead of 
 seeking in every way to curb it and bring it 
 within the limits Nature intended it to be exer- 
 cised. 
 
 In a previous chapter, where we attempted to 
 
 show the powers and limitations of the sexual 
 organs, it was hinted that wherever lustful sway 
 was given to the mind and the individual at- 
 tempted unlimited gratification of his sexual de- 
 sires that physical harm would result. We shall 
 go into this in another chapter. Just here we 
 wish only to present the horrors that arise 
 through the institution of prostitution, which is 
 the peculiar channel of lust, and against which 
 
 our readers can not be warned too emphatically. 
 
 OTHER DISEASES FOLLOW 
 
 Physicians have raised their voices against the 
 practices of prostitution from the time they first 
 began to realize the weakening effects of certain 
 
 diseases that were invariably accompaniments of 
 
70 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 it. How these diseases originated no one knows. 
 That they have existed from very ancient times 
 is attested by the writings of all countries and 
 all people; and their general prevalence to-day 
 is shown by the health statistics of the country, 
 by the reports of all the hospitals (without inquir- 
 ing into the myriads of cases where the disease, 
 and the disgrace that goes with it, are both hid- 
 den away by the individual), to be a perpetual 
 menace to the health of every person who comes 
 in contact with the afflicted, either in a sexual 
 way, or by merely living in the same premises, 
 drinking from the same vessels, eating from the 
 same dishes, or using any article that has been 
 
 worn or used by the infected. 
 
 DISEASES OF PROSTITUTION 
 Careful observation of the prostitutes of the 
 
 tity of New York, made during a number of 
 years by a physician who was connected with one 
 of the charity hospitals, where they invariably 
 drift, furnishes ground for the belief that possibly 
 
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 not five per cent. of the women who become pros- 
 
 titutes, and instruments for the satisfaction of 
 the lust of the male portion of the population 
 escape infection of venereal diseases. 
 
 Any one who has ever seen any form of vene- 
 real disease, whatever popular report may say 
 to the contrary, would certainly spurn with hor- 
 ror every possibility of infection. 
 
 In the popular mind, syphilis is as great a bug- 
 a-boo as one could possibly desire it to be. If 
 men suffering from the lust disease could be 
 made to know that probably eight-tenths of the 
 women who render their bodies for service, for 
 hire, are syphilitics, they would possibly think 
 twice before engaging in the debasing liaison. 
 What is not generally known outside of the medi- 
 cal profession, however, is that of the two dis- 
 eases, gonorrhoea, which the ignorant very fre- 
 quently describe as being not much worse than 
 a bad cold, is as bad in its way as syphilis. It is 
 
 certain that once a person is infected by gonor- 
 
72 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 rhoea, he can never completely remove the ef- 
 fects of that infection. He may be rendered 
 sufficiently clear to be free from infecting an- 
 other, but somewhere in his system the ravages 
 of the gonococci, the microscopic creatures that 
 are the accompaniments of this disease, have 
 left their mark, and they will make their visit 
 known from time to time throughout the life of 
 the individual. 
 
 EFFECTS OF VENEREAL DISEASES 
 
 In the case of a woman the effects are still more 
 complicated. A woman once infected with gon- 
 orrhoea is never completely clean again. She 
 is the woman with an issue of the scriptures, and 
 
 she is to be let alone. She will, if she marries, 
 run the risk of never bearing children, and if 
 
 she does bear them, they will possibly be diseased 
 
 from birth, deformed, blind, deaf or dumb. Thus 
 Nature curses for the violation of her laws. Thus 
 deeply and irremediably does the lust disease 
 
 work toward the physical destruction of its vic- 
 
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 It is the concensus of opinion of the most care- 
 ful observers that lust is the product of laziness, 
 and the vicious habits that go with a brain that 
 is not permitted to expend energy in the direction 
 of producing something, of creating something 
 good, beautiful or beneficial. 
 
 Prostitution confronts society wherever you go. 
 It is the phase the lust disease manifests itself 
 by among adults. Hide it away, whisper of it, 
 attempt to smother it as we will, there is not a 
 - community on earth that you can go into to-day 
 that it does not drag its slimy body over the 
 homes and lives of the people. It has made 
 wars, caused the downfall of nations and done 
 more to spread disease and death through the 
 earth than any other cause the mind can imagine. 
 A learned writer on the subject, after making 
 its ravages and its causes the study of years, 
 
 - said of it: 
 
 SOCIAL EVILS DUE TO LUST 
 
 “The evil is so notorious that none can possibly 
 
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 gainsay it. But when its extent or causes are 
 questioned a remarkable degree of ignorance or 
 carelessness is manifested. Few care to know 
 the secret springs from which prostitution ema- 
 nates; few are anxious to know how wide the 
 stream extends; few have any desire to know the 
 devastation it causes. It is an unseen evil,of which 
 only the effects are visible. It has all the im- 
 agined force of a monster, because of its obscur- 
 ity, all the avenging powers of a fiend, because 
 its true powers are hidden. It is unmanageable 
 because concealed. Stripped of the veil of ob- 
 scurity, it appears as a hideous vice, arising from 
 the abnormal impulses on the part of one sex, 
 fostered by the confiding weakness in the other.” 
 
 And this vice, which can not be smothered by 
 public sentiment, which can not be eradicated by 
 legal measures, which all the human powers have 
 been directed against, at one time or another, 
 stands red-handed close beside the door of every 
 
 home and claims its victims by the millions. 
 
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 The seeds of it were planted back in the em- 
 bryo, and the proper steps were never taken to 
 SO guide and develop the growing being that its 
 influences might be overcome and the natural 
 consequences changed. In any treatise on the 
 subject of the sexual organs and their relations 
 to health this subject must invariably obtrude it- 
 self. It is the channel of the most terrible havoc, 
 next to the wasting diseases that follow the prac- 
 tice of secret and unnatural vices. 
 
 If we take the city of New York, for example, 
 we can readily understand the important part 
 prostitution plays in the matter of sexual health 
 and hygiene. There are literally thousands of 
 prostitutes in that city. They are of every de- 
 gree and nationality, and the vices they practice 
 and disseminate are of every conceivable kind. 
 Of all these thousands of unfortunate women, 
 who offer themselves as panderers to the lust of 
 men, there is probably a very, very small per- 
 
 centage that is not diseased. Their calling en- 
 
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 tails sexual diseases, and those of the gravest 
 nature. They spread the seeds of infection rap- 
 idly, and every physician with a private practice, 
 every surgeon in charge of a hospital, will tell 
 you that by far the larger part of his cases are 
 patients who come to be treated for alleged pri- 
 vate diseases—that is, diseases they endeavor to 
 keep secret. Possibly one man in a thousand 
 who resorts with prostitutes escapes infection. 
 The percentage is scarcely above that, and when 
 one considers that these prostitutes are supported 
 to a great extent by the patronage of married 
 men, the terrible consequences of the practise 
 can be understood. The diseases of the brothel, 
 the loathsome filth of the gutter, are carried into 
 the home, and spread there, where innocence and 
 trust are outraged and sacrificed to the monster 
 Lust. 
 
 THE RISK OF INFECTION 
 No man who has any understanding of the life 
 
 of the prostitute would ever allow himself to be- 
 
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 come so mastered by lust as to habitually con- 
 sort with them. Statistics prove that on an aver- 
 age the New York prostitute in order to support 
 herself by her illegitimate calling, must give her- 
 self to the embraces of from three to five men 
 daily. When one understands the physiological 
 conditions of the sex, and how utterly incom- 
 patible such habits are with the laws of health, 
 he can understand at least one of the prolific 
 sources of disease. 
 
 A man who would voluntarily undertake to 
 breathe the noxious atmosphere of a sewer is on 
 the same plane of intellectuality as the man who, 
 with any knowledge of prostitution, ever con- 
 sorts with a member of the guild. 
 
 We offer no remedy for prostitution. It is 
 the outgrowth of lust on one side and necessity 
 on the other. We are not talking to or lecturing 
 prostitutes, but we do desire to tell our male 
 readers a few truths which they will do well to 
 heed. 
 
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 WHAT MAKES THE PROSTITUTE 
 Lust is responsible for the existence of the 
 prostitute, as well as for the existence of nine- 
 tenths of the physical and mental ills that rob 
 life of its pleasure and joy. Lust is not the at- 
 
 tribute or characteristic of health. It is a dis- 
 order, just as the delirium of fever is a disorder. 
 
 Virility can not be made the slave of lust, for 
 lust destroys virility. Impotence is as certain a 
 result of lust as indigestion is of over-eating. 
 Therefore none of the channels for the gratifi- 
 cation of lust, none of the expedients, which entail 
 the gratification of lust, can ever strengthen or 
 restore the powers impaired by lust. 
 
 When any man attempts to argue that prostitu- 
 tion is a necessary evil, just confront him with 
 that proposition. He certainly cannot understand 
 the processes by which the living body manufac- 
 tures energy, nor the laws of its expenditure and 
 expression, of its production and conservation. 
 
 It is significant in this connection that while 
 
 prostitutes become such from a variety of mo- 
 
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 tives—to escape poverty, to secure fine clothes, 
 to earn a living—very few become such because 
 of lust in themselves. They offer themselves to 
 the lust of men, and they continue in the calling 
 only as long as the lust of men makes it profitable. 
 This fact is worth considering along with the 
 moral aspects of this question. And, I want to 
 say here that it is impossible to treat this sub- 
 ject without taking up the moral side of it. 
 Books have been written in which this part has 
 been eliminated, whose authors have proceeded 
 upon the hypothesis that the sexual nature of men 
 and women was purely muscular. That the in- 
 dividual that developed an ox-like physique 
 would be powerful sexually, and the unexpressed 
 inference was that he would be more potential 
 
 for the gratification of his lusts. 
 
 ERRONEOUS IDEAS OF VIRILITY 
 There was never a more misleading conception. 
 
 Well-trained athletes are often wofully and con- 
 
 fessedly deficient in virility, while their muscu- 
 
80 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 lar system is well-nigh perfection. In fact, a 
 close observer of strong men and athletes, who 
 is also a physician, is my authority for the state- | 
 
 ment that athletes as a rule are below instead of 
 being above the average in virility. This con- 
 
 dition argues eloquently against the hypothesis 
 above cited, and indicates that virility—by which 
 term we mean a normal appetite with regard to 
 sex, and powers to gratify that appetite—is a con- 
 dition not due and not wholly dependent upon the 
 
 muscular condition of the individual. It be- 
 comes impaired as the disease of lust advances, 
 
 and it can be repaired only by overcoming and 
 remedying this abnormal mental attitude, this 
 
 mental disease. 
 Here is a hint for those who desire to regain 
 
 their manhood, and would proceed intelligently 
 towards sure results. Let them know that 
 all effort in the direction of repair is useless 
 as long as the cause is permitted to flourish—that 
 is, unbridled lust. The very first step must be 
 
 towards the removal and remedying of that. The 
 
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 first thing to be attempted is to secure a normal 
 condition of the mind, a proper mental atti- 
 tude towards life, towards the sphere of the indi- 
 vidual, towards the other sex. When this has 
 been commenced the cure is then but a matter 
 of time. And it must be remembered that it 
 will not be permanent if the old habits of thought, 
 the old vicious systems of luxury are resorted to 
 at any time. They will produce again weak- 
 
 ening and destroying effects. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 THE RESULT OF LUST. 
 
 The first manifestation of lust, and the mani- 
 festations that result, perhaps, in more physical 
 suffering than any other, are found among in- 
 fants—the immature boys and girls of the coun- 
 try. For years educators and moralists have rec- 
 ognized that there were potential influences at 
 work among the youth of the nation for demor- 
 alizing and weakening the whole race. Careful 
 watch in institutions of learning, where they are 
 brought together, the tabulated results of inves- 
 tigation of attacks of illness upon juvenile pa- 
 tients and the confessions of the youthful suf- 
 ferers have proven conclusively that secret vice, 
 or masturbation, is doing more to destroy and 
 debase than any other influence at present exert- 
 ing itself upon the race. 
 
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THE RESULT OF LUST 833 
 
 SECRET VICE 
 
 The gambling instinct, drink, the use of drugs, 
 are all habits that usually follow in the train of 
 this vice, contracted at tender age. The vice it- 
 self is but one of the many outcroppings of the 
 universal lust malady, and being one of the ear- 
 liest, it entails many others in its train. The 
 reader who has perused this book thus far, will 
 understand why the practice of secret vice by 
 the immature is by far worse than the usual 
 excesses of the adult, so far as the influences 
 upon the individual are concerned. The drain 
 of physical and nervous force is so great that no 
 one may estimate it. The victim is literally rob- 
 bing himself of life, and all that makes life worth 
 living, and goes on doing it for years until he 
 suddenly wakes up to the fact that all his powers 
 are impaired, that he is not developing into man- 
 hood, and that he is trembling on the verge of 
 total wreck. Then begins a wild, hopeless quest 
 
 for relief. Wherever he turns for advice, he is 
 
84 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 met with excuses, with like ignorance as his own. 
 He is induced to try various quack preparation 
 appliances and methods of effecting a cure, but 
 with lust still firmly in control of his mind, with 
 habits of thought established that are strong and 
 masterful, he drops lower and lower. Drugs, 
 electricity, mechanical devices, alike fail to re- 
 lieve, because the great master cause, the impel- 
 ling force, that led first to his downfall is there 
 in all its power, and he has not made an effort 
 
 to escape from it that was not abortive. 
 
 ITS BANEFUL EFFECTS 
 It would be useless to enter into any enumera- 
 
 tion here of the ills that are consequent upon 
 this vice, this terrible practise, that is mildly re- 
 ferred to as youthful folly. Indeed, it is youth- 
 ful folly! It is suicide, if not weeded out, erad- 
 icated, uprooted. Careful observance of the mor- 
 tality reports of our great cities show that the 
 greatest number of victims claimed by consump- 
 
 tion are attacked between the ages of fourteen 
 
THE RESULT OF LUST 85 
 
 and eighteen, and between those ages the practise 
 of the death-dealing secret vice is mostly con- 
 tracted. Many a bright and healthy boy or girl 
 has entered school with the promise of growing 
 into a strong and beautiful adult, and in the few 
 years that follow, gradually dwindled, and with- 
 ered, and weakened, until the hacking cough, 
 the diseased lungs, and then the undertaker, 
 have completed the chapter of their history. In 
 ninety-nine cases out of every hundred of this 
 character there is but one underlying cause. The 
 physician who has tried to save them knows it, 
 but respect for the parents, a sort of exaggerated 
 self-modesty has kept him from telling them the 
 real cause, and they believe that the flower of their 
 family was stricken by the monster death because 
 he or she was a shining mark, and they go to their 
 graves mourned as victims of fate, when they 
 themselves called Death to their side and gave 
 
 their tender bodies to his cold clasp. 
 
86 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 SOME ALARMING FIGURES 
 Statisticians have estimated that of the av- 
 
 erage child population of any of our larger towns, 
 less than twenty per cent. are free from this 
 baneful and hurtful practise. They do not learn 
 it in their homes. Their home teaching and in- 
 fluence is such that if they were perfectly healthy 
 mentally and physically, they would not be con- 
 taminated by it, if learned at school, from lewd 
 companions, or from playmates on the street, but 
 the seeds of lust, due to some libertine ancestor, 
 has made them easy preys to the most transient 
 
 influences for evil, and they fall. 
 
 THEORIES OF PREVENTION 
 Some writers have argued that frank teaching 
 on the subject, and that habits that would make 
 the sexes perfectly familiar with each other would 
 reduce this vice to a considerable extent. This 
 is far from being true. Right instruction upon 
 the matters of physiology will do much, but with- 
 
 out having removed the lustful propensity in some 
 
THE RESULT OF LUST 87 
 
 way, such instruction merely opens the door for 
 their immediate practise. And as to the question 
 
 of exposure, of familiarizing children with their 
 sexual natures, the folly of such an undertaking 
 
 is proved over and over again in those localities 
 where slight precautions, if any, are taken to 
 
 keep the sexes apart, or to maintain any sort of 
 
 outward decorum in their manners. The man 
 who argues such a cause is utterly ignorant, or 
 
 completely vicious, one of the two. 
 
 The methods adopted by the leading nations 
 of earth to-day are the best. They are the meth- 
 ods that have been tried and have given the best 
 results. Keeping the subject away from the im- 
 mature mind of the child as much as possible, 
 feeding his mind on healthy matters of investi- 
 gation, teaching it to express its energy in other 
 
 directions, until that balance is established that 
 will enable him to control to some degree the 
 
 lustful propensity which he, in common with 
 
 others of the race, has inherited, is the only safe 
 way. 
 
88 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 DO NOT FOLLOW THE ADVICE OF 
 
 IDIOTS 
 
 We have had some pathetic letters from mis- 
 guided parents who, at the suggestion of fanatics 
 or fakers, have blurted out indecencies to their 
 children, under the impression that they were 
 imparting much needed information, that were 
 pitiful in their import. One father who had read 
 the maunderings of a self-styled authority on 
 this subject, and had undertaken to give sexual 
 instruction orally to his three boys, of ten, twelve 
 and fourteen, wrote that his kindly intended act 
 had resulted in making all of his sons victims 
 of the very habit he would have given his life 
 
 to keep from them. 
 
 THE PROPER PREVENTIVES 
 Therefore, while we know that secret vice ex- 
 ists to an alarming extent among the youth of 
 both sexes, the proper way to attempt its exter- 
 mination is not by going forth and blowing the 
 
 breath of sexuality upon all the children of the 
 
Sus 
 THE RESULT OF LUST 89 
 
 nation; it will not be cured by imparting to the 
 youthful mind the information that it does exist, 
 describing its modus operandi, and winding up 
 with a catalogue of its horrors. Such a course is 
 
 the course of a madman or a fool. 
 
 WHAT PARENTS SHOULD DO 
 
 If parents would cooperate in the direction of 
 guarding their children from this vice, they must 
 make them companions, seek always to guide 
 their minds towards ideal things, give them op- 
 portunity to use the enormous amount of energy 
 their young bodies and brains are producing in 
 directions that are at once pleasant to the chil- 
 dren and beneficial to them. Their lives should 
 have as much pleasure as. possible, and they 
 should be guided to the higher pleasures, and 
 not told of the bestial and warned against them. 
 
 This is the only way, the proper way of com- 
 batting this early manifestation of lust. Good 
 
 food, mental and physical activity, and habits of 
 
90 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 cleanliness insisted upon, will prevent the ac- 
 quirement of the vicious habits in a far greater 
 percentage of cases, than any special instruction 
 
 on the subject would do. 
 
CHAPTER VII: 
 THE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAL RUIN. 
 
 Parents are grossly ignorant of their off- 
 springs’ precocity in matters of sex. They are 
 blind to all the avenues open to the child for ac- 
 quiring damning and misleading ideas on the 
 subject, and they rest in false security that their 
 own teachings, in general terms, with regard 
 to purity of habits and thoughts will be all suf- 
 ficient protection. The experience of the world 
 proves the foolishness and stupidity of this as- 
 sumption. 
 
 There is an authenticated’record of one moth- 
 er’s experience. She had had her eyes opened 
 to the duty of parents in guarding their boys and 
 girls against the acquirement of health-destroy- 
 ing secret habits; and she approached her oldest 
 son when he was sixteen with her message of 
 
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92 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 knowledge. She was astounded to learn that 
 he was already a victim. Then she tried with 
 the next, twelve years old, and he too was pol- 
 luted. In terror she proceeded to the youngest, 
 an infant of ten, and found that he too had 
 acquired the blighting habit, which it had been 
 
 in her power to forestall and prevent. 
 
 PRECOCITY 
 
 The common notion that boys are ignorant, 
 in their early years, of sexual matters and of 
 the wrecking habits of sensualists is wrong. It 
 is a safe assumption to declare that seven out 
 of every ten boys throughout the country have 
 at least heard of the pernicious practises of self- 
 abuse, by the time they have reached twelve. 
 
 The testimony of educators, physicians and 
 sociologists is all one on the subject and of the 
 blighting influences of this practise. Statisti- 
 cians inform us that a large majority of the 
 inmates of asylums are there through this one 
 
 hygienic error alone. The Rev. Dr. Adam Clark 
 
THE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAL RUIN 93 
 
 speaks in no measured terms of its evil. He 
 says: “The sin of self-pollution is one of the most 
 destructive evils ever practised by fallen man. 
 In several respects it is several degrees worse 
 than common whoredom, and brings in its train 
 more awful consequences. It excites the powers 
 of nature to undue action, and produces violent 
 secretions, which necessarily and speedily exhaust 
 the vital principle and energy; hence the muscles 
 become flaccid and feeble, the tone and natural 
 action of the nerves relaxed and impeded, and the 
 understanding confused, the judgment perverted, 
 and the will indeterminate and wholly without 
 energy to resist; the eyes appear languishing and 
 without expression, and the countenance vacant; 
 nutrition fails, tremors, fears and terrors are 
 generated, and thus the wretched victim drags 
 out a miserable existence, till, superanuated even 
 before he had time to arrive at man’s estate, with 
 a mind often debilitated even to the state of idi- 
 
 ocy, his worthless body tumbles into the grave, 
 
94 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 and his guilty soul—-guilty of self-murder—is 
 hurried into the presence of its judge.” 
 
 This is remarkably strong language, but the 
 individual of immature years who for the first 
 time excites his sexual organs and causes the 
 the semen to flow, has taken a long step towards 
 ruin. The horrible aspects of the above picture 
 may not appear in all their loathsome reality until 
 a lapse of months or years, where the constitu- 
 tion is naturally strong and vigorous, but at 
 length they come like an avalanche, to overwhelm 
 
 the victim. 
 
 WHAT SEMINAL LOSSES MEAN 
 
 Loss of semen is loss of blood. The blood is 
 the very life of you, and if it is drained to a suf- 
 ficient extent life becomes extinct. All noted 
 physiologists are fixed in the following belief 
 with regard to this most potential secretion of the 
 living body: “The semen or male principle is 
 composed of the elements which form brain, 
 
 muscle and bone—in short every tissue of the 
 
THE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAL RUIN 95 
 
 body is robbed to a certain extent by- every emis- 
 sion of the fluid. By parting with it a portion of 
 the life principle is lost; and a constant loss of 
 life principle, whether for purposes of genera- 
 tion, or otherwise, must invariably drain the sys- 
 tem of a vast amount of life force, and render 
 it an easy prey to disease; as well as curtailing 
 
 its potential energy in all avenues of expression.” 
 
 SELF-ABUSE 
 
 Of all the causes that contribute to nervous 
 weakness and loss of virility this is the most po- 
 tent. Ina few cases the abuse is carried to such 
 a point that the entire structure of the generative 
 organs becomes abnormal; and there is such per- 
 manent injury to the nervous system that com- 
 plete restoration is impossible. The effects of it 
 are observed in a great many cases of insanity, 
 in palsy, locomotor ataxia, etc. The generality 
 of victims to the habit, however, generally muster 
 sufficient will power to refrain from the physical 
 
 acts in connection with it, but few of them ever 
 
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 deem it necessary to attempt any mental reforma- 
 tion; and while they stop short of the physical 
 deterioration that attacks the grosser victims, 
 they do not perceive any increase in their powers, 
 and they are constantly suffering from night 
 losses and from the feeling of nervous debility 
 that accompanies this disorder. 
 
 The mistake made by the victims of this filthy 
 and degenerate habit is that they do not work 
 upon the proper scheme. The cleansing of the 
 cup must be from within, not without. The 
 mind must be swept clear of the thoughts that 
 have preceded and accompanied the debauchery ; 
 the expenditure of nervous force always accom- 
 panying any sexual excitement must be over- 
 come and placed under absolute control of the 
 will, The victim must avoid the appearance of 
 things that induce the thoughts; flee from them 
 when they arise, seek recreations and diversions 
 that stimulate physical forces or appeal to the 
 
 higher intellectual powers. 
 
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 HABITS TO CULTIVATE 
 To do this the habits must be so controlled and 
 ordered, that one lives with every hour appor- 
 
 tioned, and not in a hazy, hap-hazard manner. 
 If you, my reader, are a victim to lust in this form 
 arrange to have every hour of the day actively 
 occupied, either with work, or some form of di- 
 version. Seek to make your sports as much of 
 an out-of-door character as as possible. If your 
 daily occupation is sedantary take long walks, 
 morning and night, and never retire until you 
 are tired and sleepy. Then, as soon as you wake 
 get out of bed; don’t indulge the demoralizing 
 habit of lazily lying in bed and permitting the 
 the half-awakened senses to wander at will. Al- 
 ways keep a firm control of your thoughts, as 
 well as your acts. The control of one’s mental 
 powers means far more than a great many people 
 suppose; and in the treatment of such a dis- 
 
 order, as the one we are discussing, it is nine- 
 tenths of the treatment. 
 We have discussed this phase of pathology 
 
98 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 with many of the leading medical men of the 
 day, and they invariably declare that producing 
 the proper mental attitude, inducing the culti- 
 vation of will power, and control of the mental 
 attitudes has more to do with the cure than any- 
 thing they know of. 
 
 In conjunction with this must go habits of 
 cleanliness; as the external points of contact of 
 the nerves must be all provided for and the ob- 
 servance of all the rules that will conduce to a 
 normal condition must be observed, embracing 
 
 proper exercise, diet and bathing. 
 
 SUBTERFUGES 
 
 It used to be the advice of a physician appealed 
 to by one of the victims of secret vice, to advise 
 his patient to get married, or get a mistress. This 
 was merely a subterfuge. If the patient acted 
 upon the advice, he found himself no better phy- 
 sically and morally than he was, and the drains 
 upon his strength continued just the same. In 
 
 fact men already weakened by such drains and 
 
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 HE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAL, RUIN 99 
 
 losses, should be cautioned against marrying 
 until they have reestablished their title to man- 
 hood. They cannot benefit themselves,and if they 
 could it would be an ultra selfish mode of pro- 
 cedure, for that benefit would be obtained at the 
 cost to the woman who married them, and the 
 children that might be born of such wedlock. 
 No man should undertake the responsibility of 
 founding a family, with such a taint in his own 
 physical and moral fibre, for it will inevitably 
 
 appear in the children he fathers. 
 
 MARRYING NOT A REMEDY 
 Moreover, such a man upon marrying, merely 
 
 changes the form of his sensuality, and the con- 
 sequences that follow sensuality will follow him 
 just the same. The forces that worked in him 
 before for his own destruction will continue, and 
 for that reason, medical men know, that the de- 
 gree of mental and physical suffering due to 
 impaired sexual powers, is greater among the 
 
 married than the single. The matter must be 
 
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 probed deeper for any method to effect permanent 
 results. Such external influences, as diet, mar- 
 riage, etc., will not remedy; nor will all the 
 moral homilies ever spun, do one whit of good. 
 Instructing boys and men in the evils that attend 
 the vice, have been tried without avail; it con- 
 tinues just the same. All of which proves, that 
 one must go deeper, and regenerate the moral 
 fibre of the being and reequip him with the 
 strength of manhood, before permanent reform 
 can be hoped for, or improved physical and 
 mental condition induced 
 
 The worst cases of locomotor ataxia I ever 
 saw, and also one of the most pitiable victims 
 of palsy, were men who were married. They 
 had probably laid the foundation for such break- 
 downs early in life and married life seemed to 
 hastenits consummation. Acting on the advice of 
 doctors both these men had married, and within 
 a few months the wreck they feared broke upon 
 
 them with full force. There was tragedy for 
 
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 you; they had already all but ruined themselves, 
 and at the advice of a physician they pulled down 
 
 others into ruin with them. 
 
 THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS RELIEF: 
 Our advice would be to banish the idea of 
 
 obtaining relief in this way. Set yourself firmly 
 in the right road. Be confident that sooner or 
 later it will lead you out of the shadows. Stick 
 to the methods prescribed further along, and you 
 will find strength and force growing in you, as 
 hope grows. This, believe me, is the only way. 
 Tt has been tried upon hundreds; even upon the 
 men referred to above, and joyous letters from 
 them attest its efficacy. 
 
 They proclaim the glad tidings that there is 
 hope, even for those who are apparently hopeless 
 wrecks, and that not only the effects of misdi- 
 rected and ill-spent energy may be overcome, but 
 such control obtained of the mental and physical 
 forces, that there will be no further abnormal 
 
 drain put upon them. 
 
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 And this condition is not held up to you, 
 solely for-the reason that it will make the gratifi- 
 cation of abnormal desires possible. Such a 
 result is impossible. Those who go seeking some 
 wonderful elixir, that will make them Satyrs are 
 doomed to disappointment. They can be men, 
 enjoying the full powers of a man, and like a 
 man know how to conserve those powers for their 
 own good and happiness. And it is worth while. 
 Those who have never known what it was to 
 be a man, complete master of himself, strong and 
 forceful, with ability to do and to dare what a 
 man might, will have opened a door of hope 
 that will expose a brighter, broader, happier life 
 
 than they ever dreamed of entering. 
 
 PRECOCIOUS PRURIENCE 
 Precocious prurience and the various abnor- 
 
 mal manifestations that accompany it, and which 
 leave such disastrous consequences in their train, 
 in the form of weakened physical powers, dis- 
 
 ordered nervous systems, and a host of diseases, 
 
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 which follow in the wake of these conditions, 
 have occupied the attention of the gravest author- 
 ities. Many theories have been advanced re- 
 garding it. It has been imputed to everything in 
 the way of diet and heredity, and various meth- 
 ods have been advocated for its remedy. With 
 few exceptions have any good results followed 
 
 the application of these theories. 
 
 DIETING OF LITTLE VALUE 
 
 Diet has comparatively little to do with the 
 manifestations which are a menace to the health 
 oi the individual, and which work so widespread 
 harm in the community. The most continent 
 nations of antiquity, the Scythians and ancient 
 Germans, were as nearly exclusively carnivorous 
 as our Indian hunting tribes, the apathy of whose 
 sexual instincts has been alleged as the explana- 
 tion of their gradual extinction. For the same 
 reason the Gauchos of the tropical pampas are 
 
 an unprolific race while the Mujiks and sluggish 
 
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 Boyars are as salacious as the natives of Southern 
 
 Italy, where the diet is largely frugivorous. 
 
 TRUER CAUSE OF INCONTINENCE 
 The true cause of incontinence, and the evils 
 
 that attend its early manifestation, lies in indo- 
 lence and inertness. Lazy cities and small, 
 thickly populated islands, like Lesbos, Paphos, 
 and Cythera, have been most conspicuous for the 
 absence of those virtues which all civilized na- 
 tions hold in esteem, and which unquestionably 
 mean greater health, vigor and mental force of 
 the individual. 
 
 The experience of specialists who have made 
 careful observation of numerous cases, shows 
 that sexual aberration in the years of immatu- 
 rity are almost exclusively the vice of male chil- 
 dren, whose potential energies, with the same 
 diet and general mode of life as their fellows, 
 find no adequate vent in an amount of active 
 exercise sufficient for the constitutional wants of 
 
 the other sex. 
 
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 The weakening secret vices which work such 
 havoc among the youth of all cities and towns, 
 where the child-life is more indolent and inactive, 
 are practicaly unknown in the country districts, 
 and especially in the frontier regions, where there 
 is a rigorous out-door existence, and the demands 
 of living are such that the child from early 
 years finds adequate employment for its physical 
 
 forces. 
 
 TEACHINGS OF THE MISGUIDED 
 
 There have been anumberof misguided persons 
 who have taught that ignorance of the sexual 
 functions was responsible for the prevalence of 
 this vice. The contention is absurd. Where the 
 most precocious knowledge is at hand, provided 
 the environment is indolent and lazy, there is the 
 ereatest amount of the vice. Just as moral lec- 
 tures fail to reform the victim of these degrading 
 and weakening vices, so knowledge will not place 
 a bar for its acquisition. We have had letters 
 
 from parents, who, following the advice given 
 
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 by these would-be teachers, have instructed their 
 children in the sex lore of adults, only to find, 
 that the development of the accursed habit fol- 
 
 lowed quickly. 
 
 EFFECTS OF WARNINGS 
 
 Acquaintance with the family lives of the Amer- 
 ican people prompts me to state that I believe 
 that the home teachings and influences are the 
 best that could be devised. There is no occasion 
 to undertake to school your child in the things 
 he cannot understand, in the hope of preventing 
 him from falling into error. The remedy lies in 
 an entirely different direction. If they were born 
 with the knowledge, and the sexes perpetually 
 commingled in a state of nudity, and these con- 
 ditions were not remedied, there would still be 
 just as great an amount of viciousness as at 
 present, and probably much more. Once in a 
 while a victim cries, “Oh! if I had only known ;” 
 “Tf I had only been told,only been warned in time, 
 
 I would never have done this!” This is the cry 
 
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 of a weakling. No warning would have saved 
 such an one; his habits and environment and his 
 own poorly nurtured intellect were responsible for 
 his fall. If such an one has not the power by 
 sheer force of will, and few of those who have 
 become victims of self-abuse have sufficient will 
 power to stop, how could he have had the will 
 power to withstand temptation simply because he 
 had been told it was harmful. The influences 
 that first induced the youth to resort to such 
 practices, and the practices that followed, exert 
 a wonderfully weakening influence upon the 
 moral forces, and it is well-nigh impossible for 
 the victim once bound in the thralls to extricate 
 himself by sheer force of will. The physical 
 powers and mental powers have to be strength- 
 ened and developed to the point where the 
 moral phase can be made strong enough to with- 
 stand all mere demands of habit, before freedom 
 
 from the thralldom of vice can be gained. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 THE IMPAIRMENT OF THE GENERATIVE FUNCTION. 
 
 All the diseases which are manifest in abnor- 
 mal conditions of the generative organs, or in 
 abnormal manifestations of their function, have 
 their origin, primarily in weakened and deteri- 
 orated muscular conditions. The manifestations, 
 however, are largely through nervous expression. 
 The cases in which the affliction is purely one of 
 the tissues, are such active diseases as gonor- 
 rhoea, syphilis, stricture, gleet, and varicocele. 
 The treatment for these, it follows, must be 
 strictly for the sake of restoring the normal con- 
 ditions, and removing the causes of the disease. 
 
 When it comes to the obscure nervous dis- 
 orders, which unquestionably first have their 
 origin in the debilitated condition of the sexual 
 organs, there is a greater problem before the in- 
 
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IMPAIKMENT OF GENERATIVE FUNCTION 109 
 
 dividual, and one that must be considered care- 
 fully, and methods of treatment adopted which 
 will gradually restore the nervous tone, and at 
 the same time stimulate the normal action of 
 all the functions of circulation, nervous system, 
 etc. 
 
 SYMPTOMS OF SEXUAL DERANGE- 
 MENT 
 
 There is no need here to enter into a long list 
 of the diseases and symptoms that afflict such 
 persons. A great many of the symptoms are 
 merely sympathetic, just as a great many of the 
 people who believe themselves to be sexually de- 
 ranged have nothing the matter with them beyond 
 a general lack of tonicity in their muscular sys- 
 tems. For such persons the very best course is 
 to merely rest for a period, refrain from all 
 pursuits calling for the expenditure of energy, 
 either muscular or physical; exercise barely 
 
 enough to make the circulation normal, eat whole- 
 some nutritious foods, and the matter will 
 straighten itself out in short order. 
 
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 DRUGS POWERLESS 
 It is this class which furnishes the great num- 
 
 ber of dupes that are swindled by quacks, and 
 by persons who pretend to hold secrets for the 
 restoration of lost powers. No such secret is 
 known to materia medica. When any power is 
 lost, it has to be regenerated in the body, devel- 
 oped by just the same process it was developed 
 by in the first instance. And as long as all the 
 organs exist for the development and expression 
 of this stored up energy, just so long will the man 
 who handles himself intelligently and knows how 
 to apply ordinary common sense to his every-day 
 life, where to set the bounds to his desires, where 
 to stop himself in all pursuits, whether eating, 
 exercising, etc., need have no grave apprehen- 
 
 sion. 
 
  NATURE’S INTENT 
 The first thing necessary is knowledge of self 
 
 of sufficient degree to measure your ability to 
 
 expend both nervous and physical force. Not 
 
IMPAIRMENT OF GENERATIVE FUNCTION {hi 
 
 every man can do the feats of another and 110 
 manner of training, no course of development 
 could ever fit them for it. Nature has made 
 the machine, and the intelligence within it must 
 direct it in keeping with its capacity for work, 
 for thought, for whatever nature designed. 
 This chapter is intended directly for that large 
 class who have listened to the misleading, de- 
 ranged degenerate who has entirely false ideas 
 of manhood and its powers and means of ex- 
 pression. The best thing they can do is to get all 
 ideas of comparison as to their persons out of 
 their heads. You are what Nature made you, 
 and your powers lie in you just to the extent 
 Nature designed. To that extent they may be 
 employed, but not beyond it, without deranging 
 the entire machinery, and producing those terrible 
 effects from which scores of men and boys make 
 a lifelong, and too often a hopeless, struggle be- 
 
 cause not advised according to the truth. 
 
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 TRAIN FOR SELF CONTROL 
 
 If one of the poor unfortunates who has 
 through ignorance harmed his physical and nerv- 
 ous powers falls into the hands of the quack the 
 chances are that he will never have them restored 
 to their normal strength. The methods of treat- 
 ment are against this. If, however they under- 
 take to control themselves, are willing to subject 
 their minds and their bodies to the discipline of 
 a few months’ or a year’s training, there is no rea- 
 son why complete restoration may not be 
 achieved. We have given the preceding chapter 
 on general physiology in order that the individual 
 who reads this book may have a clear idea of 
 what the processes of development are, how 
 strength is developed in the first place in the 
 growing body, and how it can be restored in the 
 body that has been drained or depleted to the 
 extent of causing a shortage in either physical 
 
 power or nervous force. 
 
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 NO HOPE FOR THE GROSS AND 
 BESTIAL 
 
 Unless there is such an understanding of the 
 needs of the body and appreciation of hygienic 
 laws, there is no need to try to effect the rebuild- 
 ing we have set out to outline. The person who 
 is sO gross as to merely desire the abnormal con- 
 dition, and an abnormal ability to expend nervous 
 force, regardless of everything else, who cares 
 nothing and knows nothing about its effects upon 
 his body and mind, why let them go. They are 
 better as they are, or let the quacks have them 
 and drain them of their substance, as well as of 
 their health and happiness. 
 
 We have compiled this work with the idea that 
 such a thing as complete manifestation of the at- 
 tributes of a man is worth striving for and if they 
 have been lost through ignorance or overstrain 
 the cost of regaining them will not be too great, 
 and the lesson learned by the individual will be 
 such that it will prevent him again falling into the 
 
 same errors. Henceforward we shall have to 
 
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 speak very plainly, and we do it with all rever- 
 ence, simply because there have been conditions 
 created, through ignorance, and the effects of bad 
 associates, and the always present type of de- 
 generate in the community, which every man and 
 woman should be warned against, as well as in- 
 structed in the measures to adopt for regaining 
 
 pristine health and strength. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 THE THINGS THAT WRECK. 
 
 The nervous organization is the master system 
 of the body. For it all the other organs exist 
 and perform their functions. Man has a mus- 
 cular system merely for the purpose of locomo- 
 tion, to enable him to move from place to place, 
 in search of the materials that may be turned 
 into nervous energy; and his muscular powers 
 assist him in transforming it into the particular 
 sort of force that restores the nervous organiza- 
 tion and provides the energy for its expression. 
 
 There is the most intimate connection between 
 the great nervous and muscular centers and 
 the creative organs of both sexes. The nerves 
 of this tract are among the most powerful and 
 intricate in the human body, and through its 
 venous and arterial systems it is connected di- 
 
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 rectly with the heart, that the proper amount of 
 nutrition in the form of blood may be supplied 
 
 direct to them. 
 
 THE BEGINNING OF THE EVIL 
 
 Until the age of puberty there is no call for the 
 expression of nervous energy along these lines, 
 unless, it is of a perverted, distorted sort. Yet, 
 owing to the lewdness of many persons, whose 
 degeneracy is such there are placed before the 
 tenderest minds before reason has been developed 
 to the extent that self-restraint may be practised, 
 images of sensations and acts, that invariably re- 
 sult in damage of untold character being brought 
 about. In those rare cases where there is a 
 weakened condition of the virile forces, and the 
 organs intended for their expression, by abuses 
 practised before the age of puberty is reached, 
 there is no possibility of ever bringing the individ- 
 ual to that degree of happiness, good health and 
 nervous force he would otherwise have attained. 
 
 The misuse of the organs when they were in 
 
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 their developing stage is responsible for this, 
 and the best that can be done is to remedy the 
 existence of unnatural drains and restore. the 
 equilibrium. The tissues, nervous and muscular, 
 will require long and very careful attention to 
 even approximate the powers that should have 
 
 been those of the individual afflicted. 
 
 HYPOCHONDRIACS 
 But these cases are the rarest in the history of 
 
 sexual diseases. We all know that there are both 
 boys and girls who very early learn and prac- 
 tise secret vice, just as there are born degenerates, 
 who, whatever the surroundings, the environ- 
 ment, the moral teaching, the will cultivation 
 you give, will remain degenerates, and manifest 
 their degeneracy in spite of all. But the ma- 
 jority of those who suffer, or who think they 
 suffer, and consequently bring themselves into 
 a nervous state that is worse for them than if 
 they really suffered from some physical ill, are 
 
 those who have not built up constitutional ab- 
 
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 normalities in their organism, but whose habits, 
 diet, etc., have been such as to. weaken their 
 nervous powers, and to make their normal ex- 
 pression well-nigh impossible. For this class, 
 which is that from which most of the quacks who 
 advertise nostrums and fake cures draw their 
 victims, there is the brightest hope. They have 
 the means of cure entirely within themselves, 
 and all that can be done by medical men, or by 
 any other specialist is to show them the way 
 where ignorance of it exists, and for the patient 
 to have judgment enough and will enough to 
 put his feet upon it and continue there withcut 
 slip or doubt. 
 
 As we have pointed out above, there is a class 
 that has really impaired the organs through 
 which the expression of nervous force may be 
 made and who must subject themselves to the 
 most careful systems of body building and men- 
 tal culture to obtain relief from the ills they have 
 
 brought upon themselves. There is also a class 
 
THE PHINGS TUAT WRECK 119 
 
 whose ills are largely imaginary, who have over- 
 taxed their powers of producing energy, and 
 when they find their bodies’ or their minds’ de- 
 mands upon it not meeting with the wonted re- 
 sponse, immediately imagine that they are sub- 
 ject to grave disorders, which, by continually 
 dwelling upon, they aggravate to such an extent 
 that they become to all intents and purposes what 
 
 they imagine themselves to be. 
 
 PLAIN TRUTHS 
 The evils of secret vice, however, are nothing 
 
 as compared to persistent excessess, and then 
 seeking artificial stimulation, when the jaded 
 nerves and tissues fail to respond as they were 
 wont to do. Where there is one man who has 
 ruined his life through onanism, there are liter- 
 ally thousands, who, letting the brute take the 
 reins in the direction of their living, have be- 
 come poor, weak, useless beings, a bundle of 
 
 nerves, victims of all sorts of nervous disease, 
 
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 which the specialists have named and from which 
 they obtain no relief day or night. 
 Popular belief on this subject, as upon most 
 other things it deals with, is entirely at fault. 
 There are hundreds of men who believe that mar- 
 riage, or the association of a man, who has his 
 sexual powers impaired, with a woman, will work 
 restoration. Nothing could be further from the 
 truth, unless the association is of the right sort. 
 A great many physicians will recommend mar- 
 riage, and the layman, taking their word for it, 
 imagines that assuming the marital relation and 
 merely changing the scope of their vicious habits 
 will cure them. It will not. If they have mar- 
 ried for love, and the woman’s finer instincts ex- 
 ercise a restraining influence upon the monster 
 lust, that has been permitted to grow up in the 
 mind, then there is a chance; but if the individual, 
 as most do, merely reasons that he will escape 
 the punishment he has merited by a_ different 
 
 form of indulgence, he is doomed to despair. 
 
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 THEORIES OF SEXUAL LAW 
 There are a great many theories about the re- 
 
 productive organs, and their powers and effi- 
 ciency. Some of the leading writers on the sub- 
 ject have gone into curious details as to the mys- 
 terious magnetic influences that emanate from 
 the contact of the male and female organs of re- 
 production, and have argued from this theory 
 that there is a mysterious human magnetic cur- 
 rent turned loose which offsets the effects of the 
 act upon the male. This theory is supported by 
 a good many phenomena, which can not be ex- 
 plained satisfactorily in any other way. But the 
 presence, or absence, of such a current will not, 
 as has been claimed by some, offset the physical 
 effects of sexual congress upon the parties. This 
 theory can be easily disproved, and it has been 
 sompletely refuted by experiments with domestic 
 animals. The male animal is utterly without re- 
 fraint, just as a great many human beings are. 
 
 If he were supplied with the exciting causes and 
 
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 the means for gratification he would run into just 
 as great excesses as any man and with the same 
 results. All breeders know this to be true, and 
 they provide very carefully for the stallions, 
 dogs and boars that their powers may not be 
 over-taxed. Nature will stand just so much, 
 with reserve force behind to effect recuperation, 
 and when that limit is reached there is sure to 
 be the piper to pay. And you can’t pay him in 
 doctor’s fees and obtain relief by taking a few 
 drugs; nor can you undertake any specified form 
 of muscle or nerve building that will equip you 
 with the constitution of a Satyr. You must know 
 yourself, and, being reasonable, be guided by 
 
 reason. 
 
 RELATION BETWEEN BLOOD AND 
 EXCESSES 
 
 Students of physiology have shown what an 
 intimate association there is with the procreative 
 act and the most vital organs of our being. The 
 
 very best blood of the heart is required to pro- 
 
THE THINGS THAT WRECK 123 
 
 duce the seminal fluid. The most intense 
 nervous force is necessary to effect the physical 
 changes and reactions that must take place when 
 this fluid is expended in the real, or abortive, act 
 of reproduction. This being the case, it becomes 
 merely a question of understanding the rules that 
 govern the expression of nervous force, and the 
 accumulation of the physical elements that enter 
 into this matter, for us to so gauge our lives as 
 to make them harmonious and healthy. 
 
 So far as human research can show, and 
 guided by the dim lights of very ancient history 
 that have been handed down to us in myths and 
 legends, the early types of man were long-lived— 
 a great deal longer-lived than they are at the 
 present time or have been for thousands of cen- 
 turies. This is probably due to the fact that in 
 those earlier days there were fewer females; 
 monogamy was enforced, and the hardships of 
 living were such that the pair were far nearer 
 
 the animal instincts sexually than men and 
 
124 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 women are at the present day. And there was 
 an utter absence of all®the forms of excess which 
 have cursed humanity since. The plurality of 
 wives was the first weakening influence that was 
 put upon the race, and it has worked evils which 
 have not been overcome even to this day, and 
 which will probably bind the race down to a cer- 
 
 tain level through all the ages that are to follow. 
 
 THE BENEFICIAL MARRIAGE 
 In this connection we desire merely to offer one 
 
 suggestion. The methods of living at present 
 are such as to keep alive the degenerate instincts 
 the race has developed, whereas, if there were 
 proper safeguards they would not exist. Marriage 
 ought to be made an absolutely imperative duty. 
 Reason, intelligence and hygiene will assuredly 
 preserve the balance of population to a limit that 
 will always suit the productiveness of the earth. 
 And the married state is the state that the race 
 was designed for. Our forms of marriage have 
 
 deteriorated to such an extent that they can 
 
THE THINGS THAT WRECK 125 
 
 hardly be called marriage. They are responsible 
 for much of the weakening excesses and much of 
 the suffering that one encounters. Men and 
 women in civilized countries, while apparently 
 exercising their will and rights in choosing their 
 _mates, are really influenced by almost every mo- 
 tive except the right one. Desire for position, 
 for power, for wealth are the motives in most 
 cases, and from this there can not result any- 
 thing but inharmony. 
 
 The ideal marriage, from the hygienic point of 
 view, and from the point of view of the moralist 
 as well, is that which prevails among some of the 
 very oldest peoples of the world. Where the child- 
 ren are betrothed in childhood, are schooled for 
 each other, have the idea of their association al- 
 ways before them; become so palpably one in 
 training, in thought and in motives, that they real- 
 ly have the ideal marriage. No marriage founded 
 on a month’s or a year’s courtship will ever afford 
 
 the results to the individual, or to the race, that 
 
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 these marriages are designed and prepared for. 
 Then marriage is divested of all its mysteries to 
 the mind of the child. It is prepared for it. 
 There is none of that freebooting, that exploring 
 for the forbidden fruit, that always arises in the 
 mind of the-boys and girls who are raised up and 
 then turned. loose to forage for themselves, as 
 
 they are in our boasted civilization. 
 
CHAPTER X, 
 FOOL THEORIES, 
 There is not a thing that touches the life of, 
 
 man about which the ignorant and the ill-ad- 
 vised have not spun theories. The hobby-horse 
 riders have theories about diet that are radical, 
 about exercise, about rest, about everything, and 
 there are a plentiful supply of theories regarding 
 sexual science. I refer to most of these as fool 
 theories. That is the proper characterization of 
 them. Take, for instance, the theory of the man 
 who argues that purity, continence and sexual 
 normality would be promulgated by a return to 
 habits of nudity. Only a crazy man could earn- 
 estly put forward such a theory as that; for the 
 history of humanity is that in those communities 
 where nudity has been permitted and encouraged 
 there has been the greatest amount of sexual de- 
 moralization and physical decay. 
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 NUDITY CRANKS 
 There are some curious facts to be cited in this 
 
 connection that are worthy of the reader’s atten- 
 tion. In those countries where sensuality has 
 been permitted to thrive without protest, where 
 nudity has been encouraged and permitted, the 
 grossest forms of sensuality, and consequently 
 the most pronounced physical consequences have 
 resulted. Wherever one goes to-day he hears, in 
 a veiled way, of the sensual practises on the seas, 
 which have gradually been scattered over the 
 world, carrying in their train results that are 
 terrible in their consequences. If a criminolo- 
 gist or physician seeks for the most pronounced 
 types of physical and mental degeneration he 
 looks among this class. It furnishes a rich supply 
 of the weak, the suffering, the pitiful. 
 
 The irresistible lesson from these facts is that 
 for the modern man a normal exercise of the 
 sexual function must be adhered to if virility and 
 
 physical strength would be maintained, and that 
 
FOOL, THEORIES 129 
 
 sensuality in any form is as sure to sap and un- 
 
 dermine it as the sun is to rise to-morrow. 
 
 LIMITATION OF MARITAL INTER- 
 COURSE 
 
 Among the fool theories respecting the exercise 
 of the sexual function may be mentioned that of 
 some ascetics who assert that for a man and wife 
 to indulge in the sexual act oftener than once a 
 month or once a fortnight at the most is detri- 
 mental, is the veriest rubbish. There are times 
 when the physical powers are lowered and weak- 
 ened, when the participation in the sexual act 
 would endanger the very existence of the in- 
 dividual, and a man ought to have common 
 sense enough to avoid it, and to avoid sexual ex- 
 citement of all kinds on such occasions. When 
 he is in physical health, however, and there is the 
 desire, not stimulated by drugs or stimulants, 
 there can not be any harm in a more frequent 
 indulgence. 
 
 PHYSICAL BALANCE THE GUIDE 
 The aim of this book is to give facts—facts, 
 
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 observation and science have proved, and not 
 merely untried theories, or the theories of per- 
 sons who speak without authority. The very 
 first thing to do is to seek to secure and maintain 
 physical balance, and when that is done be guided 
 in the matter of your sexual appetite much as you 
 would be guided in the matter of taking food. Do 
 not seek a continual round of sexual excitement, 
 for it will surely undermine and destroy your 
 nervous strength. Be able to completely control 
 your passion, and not be controlled by it, and you 
 will obtain a much richer reward of happiness 
 and contentment than any libertine, or sensualist, 
 or any ascetic recluse, who tortures the body by 
 denying the naturalness, or the hygienic import 
 of the act. 
 
 QUACKS AND NOSTRUMS 
 In every large community, where there is a 
 percentage of persons who as youths or as adults 
 are engaged in pursuits that do not call for any 
 
 great amount of physical exercise, we find weak 
 
FOOL THEORIES 181 
 
 men—men who have aborted instincts, who are 
 slaves of sensuality in one form or another. 
 These individuals are not hopelessly lost. Sooner 
 or later each of them, whatever the character of 
 excesses that have been the cause of their un- 
 doing, become aware of the fact that they are not 
 complete men; that they do not have within 
 their bodies all the powers and forces for suc- 
 cess, for health and happiness that their more 
 fortunate fellows have, and they unhesitatingly, 
 as soon as they are aware of this lack, would 
 part with all the wealth of the world to regain it. 
 
 Pick up any newspaper or magazine, and one 
 of the conspicuous features on their advertising 
 pages is the “quack” advertisement of a nostrum 
 that claims to restore lost vitality, retone depleted 
 nervous forces, give strength and vigor to the 
 weak, nervous man. All these advertisements 
 tell one story: That of thousands of wrecks seek- : 
 ing a way to be relieved from the bondage of sin 
 
 and weakness they Have made for themselves. 
 
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 It may be said in passing that any reliance 
 placed upon these alleged remedies is hope 
 wasted. They can not in any measure restore 
 that power which is dependent upon the healthy 
 functional activity of a properly nurtured, prop- 
 erly developed, properly used body. They are 
 relics of superstitions, the transparent ruses of 
 the unscrupulous to eke profit out of the mis- 
 
 fortunes of others. 
 
 APHRODISIACS DANGEROUS 
 It is a well-known fact that any poisonous 
 
 drug that has aphrodisical properties sufficiently 
 strong to stimulate the nervous system and cen- 
 tres that control the sexual function have an in- 
 eradicably ill effect upon the general health. They 
 merely spur jaded powers and functions to spas- 
 modic over-exertion again, and leave them still 
 further weakened and injured. Moreover, all 
 such preparations that have effects upon the 
 nervous system such as described are powerful 
 
 irritant poisons, which impart injurfes to still 
 
FOOL THEORIES 188 
 
 other parts of the body, and the reaction follow- 
 ing the false stimulation usually makes manifest 
 still other disorders than those sought to be reme- 
 died. 
 
 There are few such drugs, but we caution all 
 readers against them. Avoid them as you would 
 deadly poisons. That is what they are, and 
 while the quack may administer doses of such 
 smallness that immediate death may not follow, 
 yet the seeds are being planted more and more 
 ‘thickly in your system, and they will bear fruit 
 
 tsooner or later. 
 
 FAKERS AND THEIR DUPES 
 
 Against these ultra powerful drugs there is not 
 so much need to be cautioned, as against the 
 fakes, pure and simple, that are built up around 
 this class of disorders. The true aphodisiacs are 
 so potential for harm that even physicians who 
 have the patient completely under their observa- 
 tion are loath to employ them, knowing, as they 
 
 do, the far-reaching evil influences that attach to 
 
134 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 their use. But superstition and ignorance have 
 supplied the pharmacopz with scores of filthy, 
 dangerous compounds which possess no power of 
 stimulating or exciting the nervous system, and 
 yet they are advertised as certain cures for weak- 
 ness, losses, lack of virility! These advertise- 
 
 ments are merely traps for the unwary. 
 
 STRANGE DELUSIONS OF THE 
 ANCIENTS 
 
 In the early days of medicine, dried and pow- 
 dered frogs were administered for this purpose, 
 and the victims of excesses and the prematurely 
 old swallowed the nlthy concoction in the hope 
 that it would restore youth. It is patent to any 
 one that powdered toad would have no more 
 effect than dried fish or dried mice or any other 
 form of dead and pulverized animal matter. 
 
 In China and some other countries certain 
 kinds of lizzards are esteemed valuable as 
 remedial agents in such cases. There is a pecu- 
 
 liarly hideous lizzard that inhabits the northern 
 
FOOL THEORIES 185 
 
 part of Africa, and the old Romans and Greeks, 
 used to have them hunted and their livers care- 
 _ fully extracted and dried, and from this a powder 
 of reputed potency was evolved. Science made 
 
 such things appear absurd. 
 
 FOLLIES OF TO-DAY 
 
 But in our day we have just as filthy, just as 
 senseless remedies being offered broadcast over 
 the country, as baits to catch the weak and the 
 hopeless. Recently the advertising pages of a 
 well-known newspaper contained ten advertise- 
 ments of fake remedies for men. That they were 
 fakes any person with the slightest intelligence 
 could see at a glance, One, which boasted a large 
 space, advertised that a certain extract had been 
 obtained from healthy young bullocks, which 
 would do the work! Another fakir advertised an 
 extract from goats, and still another one from 
 sheep ; others offered vegetable and mineral com- 
 pounds that would effect a cure of all cases of 
 
 sexual derangement! 
 
186 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 If there is any part of medicine in which there 
 is need for reform, and on which there is light 
 needed, it is this. Go to any reputable and intel- 
 ligent physician and he will tell you that there 
 is no way to restore those powers except by rest, 
 proper body building habits, and living hygenic- 
 ally. And that is the sum total of it. Do not 
 waste your money and still further weaken your 
 vitality by following after the fellows who ad- 
 vertise cures of these disorders. They can do 
 you no good. 
 
“ities 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 THE REMEDY. 
 
 Active exercise is the only remedy for sexual 
 vice and for most of the ills it produces. Drugs, 
 etc., will have no beneficial effects upon them in a 
 remedial way. They arise, as we have stated, in 
 indolence, and improper means of expressing the 
 physical powers, energy that is being manufac- 
 tured under certain conditions. Provide for the 
 expression of that energy, and you get at the very 
 seat of the trouble. The habit will quickly be- 
 come distasteful. 
 
 Parents who are anxious to prevent their chil- 
 dren from falling victims to this habit, should 
 constantly have this in mind. Do not be so much 
 exercised about what they shall or shall not learn, 
 as to how much opportunity they shall have for 
 the exnenditure of their rapidly accumulating 
 
 137 
 
138 SPECIAL EXERCISES. 
 
 EXERCISE A—Lie on the back as shown. Kick 
 
 upward vigorously as indicated by the dotted 
 line. Repeat until tired. 
 
THE REMEDY 189 
 
 physical energy. Don’t permit an indolent and 
 ambitionless boy to be among your brood. See 
 to it that they get out of doors and employ their 
 muscles. Encourage them in games, seek to stim- 
 ulate a desire to excell in all those sports which 
 boyhood indulges in. Running, jumping, wrest- 
 ling, boxing, any form of the sport in which he 
 manifests an interest, encourage. Help him to 
 develop the skill and the strength to serve well 
 in it, and be sure you are placing the best safe- 
 guard between the child and any unnatural and 
 weakening vicious habit that he might otherwise 
 acquire. 
 HABITS TO CULTIVATE 
 
 In the beginning, always from babyhood, see 
 that the child bathes regularly and well; en- 
 courage him in the use of cold water, and do not 
 encourage the practise of sleeping in a_ close 
 room, with heavy covering. Make it your object 
 to stimulate the manly side of him at all times, 
 
 never encourage effeminacy. And when he is 
 
140 SPECIAL EXEREISES. 
 
 Fs = 
 “ See SSE SS 
 ‘ ne Sage UE ’ EE —————— = 
 
 EXERCISE B—Lie on the back as shown. Per- 
 form a running motion with legs as indicated by 
 the dotted lines. Execute the motion quite rapid- 
 
 ly. Continue until slightly tired. 
 
SPECIAL EXERCISES. 141 
 
 EXERcISE C—Lie on the back as shown. Al- 
 ternately bring the knees toward the head as in- 
 dicated, Perform movement with vigor. Make 
 twenty to forty movements with each leg. 
 
142 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 large enough to get out of doors send him there; 
 let him play out of doors to his heart’s content; 
 and encourage him to participate in the hardiest 
 games his age and strength will permit. By so 
 doing you will be giving him something better 
 and helping him to an estate more desirable than 
 by leaving him a hoard of gold, or making him 
 
 the sticcessor to a business. 
 
 APPEARANCE TO EMULATE 
 To the youth into whose hands this volume may 
 
 fall and who will be under the necessity of work- 
 ing out his own salvation from a labyrinth of 
 evil into which he, perchance, may have strayed, 
 we give this advice: Begin to cultivate your 
 manly qualities at once, however weak and im- 
 poverished they may be. Join your fellows in out 
 of door sports; take up systematic exercises, and 
 seek to develop your body; that is the first step 
 toward emancipation, and health, and vigor. You 
 may assist in hastening the control by adopting 
 
 a frugal diet, as we have hinted in another cliap- 
 
SPECIAL EXERCISES. 148 
 
 FExercisE D—Lie on the back as shown. Keep 
 the legs straight and bring them over the head al- 
 
 ternately as indicated by the dotted lines. Make 
 long, full sweeps with the legs. Twenty to forty 
 movements according to strength, 
 
144 SPECIAL RXERCIONG, 
 
 & Fal a 
 
 @e. 262 bX win ee aeH-' 
 
 ExercisE E—Lie on the back as shown. Ex- 
 tend the legs as indicated and spread them as 
 wide apart as possible, then bring them together, 
 observe the angle at which the legs are extended. 
 Do not bring them to a vertical position. Con- 
 tinue until tired. 
 
THE REMEDY 446 
 
 ter, but in the great work of regeneration you will 
 have to make a muscular work first. The moral 
 fone and strength will gradually be acquired. 
 We have given, under a separate chapter, a com- 
 plete system of exercises for building up and 
 stimulating the depleted musclar and nervous cen- 
 tres, and practise these faithfully. 
 
 The health of the sexual organs, and conse- 
 quently the health of the entire system, is de- 
 pendent very largely upon the amount of nutri- 
 tion, and the hygienic care the part of the body 
 in which the sexual organs lie receives. We know 
 that exercise is one of the most potential aids 
 in stimulating circulation and supplying nutri- 
 tion to any part of the body. Therefore, it is clear 
 that exercise must play an important part in the 
 process of strengthening and building up the sex- 
 ual system. 
 
 General exercise is good for this, such as a long 
 daily walk, participation in out-door sports that 
 
 are not of too strenuous a character, general 
 
146 SPECIAL EXERCISES. 
 
 EXERCISE F—Clasp the hands around the 
 knees as shown. Pull with great pressure on the 
 knees. Duration of pull should be about two 
 seconds; rest about five seconds and repeat. 
 
 Repeat exercise ten to fifteen times, 
 
THE REMEDY 147 
 
 physical culture, either at home or in a gym- 
 nasium. All of these are to be very earnestly 
 commended for the better your physical tone, the 
 better will be your nervous organization, as a 
 
 rule. 
 
 ; SPECIAL TREATMEN T NEEDED 
 
 But there are some cases where abnormal con- 
 ditions have been brought about by habits that 
 are unhygienic, and in order to quickly overcome 
 these, the stimulation must be applied more di- 
 rectly and constantly to the parts affected than 
 would be obtained by general exercise. To meet 
 the demand for this sort of cases, and to provide 
 readers with a method of quickly overcoming cer- 
 tain organic ailments that may affect the sexual 
 tracts, we have designed the exercises shown in 
 this chapter, which while affording mild stimula- 
 tion to the body in general, and promoting a more 
 equal blood circulation, will react wonderfully and 
 quickly upon the muscular and nervous systems 
 
 of the sexual tract. 
 
148 SPECIAL EXERCISES. 
 
 EXERCISE G—Lie on the back as shown. Clasp 
 the hands firmly on the knees. Spread the 
 knees apart as far as possible, then bring them 
 together, resisting the movement as much as pos- 
 sible with the hand. Relax and repeat until tired. 
 
THR REMEDY 149 
 
 HOW TO EMPLOY THESE EXERCISES 
 These exercises should be taken just before re- 
 
 tiring at night and immediately upon waking in 
 the morning. Take them with as little clothing 
 on as possible and follow them by giving a brisk 
 friction treatment to the lower part of the body, 
 the thighs and surrounding parts. A bristle 
 brush is the best implement to use for this pur- 
 pose. Then bathe the parts in cold water for a 
 few moments; or, better still, if you have the 
 conveniences, allow a small stream of cold water 
 
 to flow over the external sexual organs for a few 
 seconds. 
 
 In the beginning make the exercises conform to 
 your strength. Do not persist in them if they 
 
 produce soreness, and do not carry them to the 
 point of producing exhaustion. In addition to 
 
 these exercises stay in the open air as much as 
 possible each day, and at all times practise deep 
 breathing. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL POISE. 
 
 In comparatively recent times men and women 
 have become aware of the importance of the men- 
 tal attitude in controlling conditions of the body. 
 Hunger, thirst, and even disease, are remarkably 
 influenced by the mental attitude of the indi- 
 vidual. If the mind can be kept free from worry 
 and the taint that afflicts the body, the most seri- 
 ous disease can be quickly cured. This studying 
 and inducing of mental attitudes is one of the 
 most important elements of the healer’s art. Every 
 physician makes it one of his most important aids. 
 When he knows the thought habits and the tem- 
 perament of his patient, his treatment becomes 
 largely directed toward producing cheerful, con- 
 fident, and hopeful thoughts in his patient, and 
 there is immediate beneficial results. 
 
 150 
 
“HE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL POISE 151i 
 
 HOW MENTAL HEALING WORKS 
 
 We have been informed by numbers of the 
 leading physicians of the country that a majority 
 of the sexual disorders that come to them, in their 
 professional work, are due entirely to wrong 
 mental ideas, wrong mental attitudes and Ses 
 roneous thoughts. If they could enlighten the 
 thought of the patient, and free him from brood- 
 ing and morbid introspection, a cure would be 
 certain in ninety-five per cent. of the cases of im- 
 potence, sexual derangement, and nervous disor- 
 
 ders arising from such derangement. 
 
 FIRST STEPS IN MENTAL TREATMENT 
 
 Therefore, the most important thing for the in- 
 dividual to do is to inform his mind accurately 
 of the physiological and hygienic facts relating to 
 sex. Knowledge on these points will relieve him 
 from baneful influences of wrong ideas. The 
 than, who has been made to think that his sexual 
 powers are something entirely apart from his 
 
 physical body, and who, when heobserves the first 
 
152 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 signs of exhaustion, begins to worry, learns there 
 is no cause for worry. That given rest, nutritious 
 diet, and recuperation will follow. And the mind 
 once put in this attitude, the nervous system is 
 telieved from the strain and recovery is assured. 
 
 Then, when we go one step further and take up 
 the class of patients, who are really suffering 
 from prolonged abuse of these powers, and we 
 can convince them that they are suffering from a 
 physical ill which under proper laws of living or 
 Proper habits will be straightened out, and we 
 can induce them to assume a cheerful aspect, to 
 seek the diversions of the healthy minded, and to 
 cultivate an atmosphere of hope and joyousness, 
 their case becomes simple, and a few weeks or 
 months will work wonders. 
 
 Once a man or woman becomes convinced that 
 something is the matter with his or her sexta] ap- 
 paratus, they are in a fair way to becoming ut- 
 terly impotent. All through the influence of the 
 
 thought, solely. The writer has known scores 
 
THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL POISE 163 
 
 of men who were to all intents and purposes sex- 
 ual wrecks, who, because they had sinned and had 
 brooded upon some of the primary results of that 
 
 sin, became what they imagined themselves to be. 
 
 CULTIVATING THE MENTAL ATTITUDE 
 
 The cultivation of this mental attitude is not 
 so difficult. One does not need an instructor to 
 guide one in it. The application of mental thera- 
 peutics is so simple that any one who can read and 
 who can think at all, may be guided by it. One 
 merely has to keep watch of the mind. Prevent 
 it from idle incursions in the land of day dreams. 
 Avoid any introspection and seek healthy forms 
 of mental occupation during the waking hours. 
 This is all for the effect upon the conscious mind, 
 the voluntary thinking. 
 
 The sub-conscious part, the involuntary part 
 must be trained too, and this is a trifle more dif- 
 ficult, and will require more patience, but it can 
 be done, just as surely as a child can learn the 
 
 alphabet. It requires reiteration, persistence, and 
 
154 ; SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 little aids to keep the idea constantly in mind for 
 a sufficient period for the habit of thought to be 
 established. 
 
 This part of the treatment should be sought to 
 be established scientifically. The faith cure, 
 where one is asked to believe, and the intellect is 
 forced into a belief that may be at utter variance 
 to the facts, is useless. Such an attitude might 
 be arrived at by certain temperaments and held 
 for a period, but invariably there comes a time 
 when it fails, because it is not an established habit 
 of thought. The intellect has not been permitted 
 to arrive at it, logically, so as to never release it. 
 
 To prove to yourself the potentiality of the 
 mind, I would advise the patient to try a few ex- 
 
 periments. 
 
 EXPERIMENTS 
 Fix the mind on any part of the body and think 
 
 constantly that the channels of circulation are 
 open, that the blood is flowing there at your will, 
 in greater and greater quantities, and watch 
 
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL POISE 155 
 
 the result. A few moments of such concentra- 
 tion will inevitably result in an increased blood 
 supply to that portion, and a rise in tempera- 
 ture. I suggest this as a preliminary step in 
 order to convince the reasoning part of the 
 mind of the logical nature of the treatment. This 
 once established, the patient may proceed to the 
 cultivation of the thought habits, and the auto 
 suggestions that will aid him to accomplish his 
 
 desires in the-way of improvement. 
 
 MENTAL DRILLS NECESSARY 
 
 To do this a regular system of exercises should 
 be established. We will take it for granted that 
 you have, by means of the experiment suggested 
 above, or some other, in proving to your own in- 
 telligence, the independent and powerful influence 
 of the will or mind or thought over the functions 
 of the body. The next step is to rid yourself of 
 the thought habits you have had with regard to 
 
 yourself, and the condition of your body. 
 
156 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 FIRST STEPS 
 
 The first step in this is to read carefully and 
 to understand what has been said, preceding, with 
 regard to sexual physiology. When you have 
 done this, you will understand, and your intellect 
 will approve the understanding that any manifes- 
 tations that you may have out of the ordinary, are 
 merely temporary, and due entirely to your non- 
 compliance with the laws of health and being. 
 The conclusion to draw from this is that com- 
 pliance with those laws, together with rest, will 
 result in rehabiliment. This will give you the 
 more necessary interest and stimulation to under- 
 take to follow carefully the instructions, as to diet 
 
 and hygiene, and the government of the body. 
 
 HOW TO MAKE AUTO-SUGGESTIONS 
 We will now proceed to the more subtle sugges- 
 
 tions; suggestions which will bear directly upon 
 the healing, or re-establishing of normal func- 
 tions. 
 
 Every night before yeu fall asleep bring all 
 
THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL, POISE 157 
 
 your mental powers into control. Review the 
 thought conclusions you have been led to arrive 
 at from the foregoing. 
 
 Say to yourself over and over again, “I am 
 observing the laws of health with regard to my 
 sexual being. Rest means recuperation. I can 
 experience the effects of my reformed habits, 
 which are already beginning to show changes in 
 my body. I no longer commit abuses on my 
 body. My mind is right, and will stay right. 
 I feel better, therefore I know that I am better. I 
 know that I will be still better in the morning. I 
 have no cause to worry any more. I do not 
 
 worry.” 
 
 CONCENTRATION 
 
 Keep these thoughts in your mind for a suf-. 
 ficiently long time to make their repetition easy 
 without mental concentration. And when you 
 arise in the morning say over to yourself, men- 
 tally, the same sort of suggestions. Think during 
 
 the day of strength, of strong objects, of moun- 
 
158 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 tains, of masculine things. Seek to surround 
 yourself with objects that suggest strength and 
 rigidity. Avoid all feminine fripperies. Dress 
 in a manly fashion. When you start out in the 
 morning, throw your shoulders back and walk 
 as if you were the lord of creation. Inhale deep 
 breaths, slowly and rhythmically, and with every 
 inhalation say to yourself, Iam aman. I know 
 it. I feel it. ‘ 
 
 And do not allow any doubts, and brooding, to 
 obtrude themselves upon this mental attitude. 
 Keep the idea of improvement present with you at 
 every moment when your mind is not otherwise 
 occupied with business or diversion. If you read, 
 read books of strong deeds; history and historical 
 romances, Avoid psychological and sensual 
 works, and every suggestion of weakness or 
 femininity. 
 
 Now, at the close of this chapter, let me again 
 say to you that it is the most important in the 
 
 book. The physical aids, suggested before, are 
 
THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL POISE 159 
 
 utterly powerless to help you unless you seri- 
 ously want to be helped to a condition of true 
 manliness, and are so enthused over it that you 
 will lend your aid in establishing that desire su- 
 preme in your life for the time being. 
 
 The understanding and application of the prin- 
 ciples set forth in this chapter will work a miracle 
 in a short time if you follow them seriously and 
 absolutely, 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 
 
 There are a number of queries forever being 
 put by men and women, who, by their inquiries, 
 show that they would do the right thing, act in 
 accord with Nature’s laws, and the laws of Hy- 
 giene, if they knew them. For the benefit of 
 such, this chapter is intended, and in it we shall 
 attempt to place the answer to a great many ques- 
 tions that arise in connection with sexual phys- 
 iology, and which have not come up in the other 
 chapters, where the specific function of the or- 
 gans have been treated, and the abnormalities 
 that may arise, are set forth. 
 
 HERMAPHRODITISM 
 First, we shall treat here, briefly, the subject of 
 
 bi-sexuality, or hermaphroditism. There is a 
 vastly extended popular belief in this double-sex 
 160 
 
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 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 161 
 
 idea. There is not the slightest doubt, in the 
 minds of scientific men now, that all such cases 
 as have been reported were myths. That such 
 a thing as true hermaphroditism, or double-sex 
 does not exist and has never existed. Ina former 
 chapter, in describing the organs of the female 
 sex, we made reference to one organ, situated 
 near the external orifice, called the clitoris. This 
 in a normal state is a small, glandular body, with 
 erectile tissue, similar to that found in the male 
 penis. Under certain abnormal conditions, and 
 sometimes from birth, there have existed females 
 with this organ unduly enlarged. There have 
 been cases known where the clitoris, from being 
 a small and obscure organ, became of such promi- 
 nence as to extend from an inch to two and a 
 half inches beyond the external opening. It na- 
 turally presents the phenomena of becoming erect 
 under sexual excitement, very much the same as 
 the male penis does. But the similarity ends 
 
 there. The clitoris is not penetrated by a canal. 
 
162 ~~ SEXUAL, VITALITY 
 
 It is not-connected by any personal channels with 
 the. rest.of ‘the sexual system,, and. there is. not 
 a possible chance for any of the phenomena that 
 occur with regard to.the penis and. its append- 
 ages during sexual congress happening. with. this 
 organ, .It has. been pretty well, proved that.in . 
 most, cases.in which such apparent, abnormality 
 has been. observed;.that the woman has -been. of 
 coarse moral fibre, and more.masculine in appear- 
 ance and shape, than the: ordinary female. types. 
 They may also develop . degenerate’ sexual. -in- 
 stincts, but. whatever these may be. there are no 
 
 cases authenticated. of.a bi-sexual function. 
 
 DEGENERATES 
 This brings us to the discussion of those pe- 
 culiar forms of mental disorder, which produce 
 sextial deverierates. All medical men, know and 
 recognize that there are such—persons ‘in whom 
 the sexual instinct isso distorted that they ‘no 
 longer desire:or seek gratification’in the ordinary 
 
 manner. , There: are half a dozen types of these, 
 
MISCELLANEOUS Norris ) 1€3 
 so disgusting and: loathsome in their practises, 
 that even a cataloguing of them in such a work 
 as this:is not permissible. «Suffice it to say, that 
 such disorders are of a psychological instead ‘of 
 physical nature. They are: victims of mental 
 disorder. Perhaps early excesses, secret’ vice 
 and: diverse forms of » sensuality, ‘may ‘have 
 had. much to do with producing these debased 
 types of humanity, but their treatment and cure 
 lie in another: domain than ours. 
 
 The: true cases of sexual degeneracy are prac- 
 tically incurable forms of insanity.. One peculiar 
 feature in connection with them, which has been 
 elucidated after very. careful inquiry among. hos- 
 pital surgeons, who have had experience pe 
 such beings, and policemen, who, in. their busi- 
 ness, must in the course of time, arrest a great 
 many. of these degenerates, brings to. light the 
 fact, that, sexual perverts that have.come within 
 their observance, and.. were, strangely enough, 
 
 sometimes, very powerful physically. This «con- 
 
164 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 controverts the theory of some persons that 
 sexual depravity of this sort means physical 
 weakness. A man, or what passes for a man, 
 may be physically strong and symmetrical, and 
 still practise the lowest, most loathsome and de- 
 praving vices. It also proves the further truth, 
 that the mere physical development, in such cases, 
 has nothing whatever to do with working a 
 cure. Their instincts have become completely 
 metamorphosed, and they are astruly insane as 
 any inmate of an asylum in the world, and the 
 mere production of physical strength in no way 
 
 reforms them. 
 
 QUESTIONS OF THE NEWLY MARRIED 
 
 There are sometimes delicate questions that 
 come up between the newly married. Sometimes 
 there is utter inability, or apparent inability to 
 consummate the marriage. This may be due to 
 two things, either an abnormal condition of the 
 female organs, in which case a surgeon should 
 be immediately consulted, or, to the fact that the 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 165 
 
 husband is an éxceedingly high strung, nervous 
 individual. When the latter is the case, and there 
 is any difficulty in consummating the marriage, 
 there is liable to be a premature discharge of. 
 semen, and often many such annoying failures. 
 Such a case as this does not require the services 
 nor the advice of a physician. Patience and the ex- 
 ercise of will power, and the avoidanceof all haste, 
 
 are the only things to be observed. 
 
 RELATIONS OF HUSBAND AND WIFE 
 Usually a man’s sexual knowledge is far 
 
 greater than the woman’s. She, under our 
 system of training, in a majority of cases, comes 
 to her husband with absolutely no hint of what 
 the relation of husband and wife means. For 
 any husband to unmask that relation at once, fol- 
 lowing the excitement and stress of the prepara- 
 tion for, and going through the marriage cere- 
 mony, is for him to run the risk of impairing 
 his entire future happiness. Because a woman 
 
 has been married is no reason for forcing upon 
 
166 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 her something she may be in total ignoratice of, 
 and which may have ‘such a psychological effect 
 upon her, as to make similar acts forever dis- 
 tasteful to her. The courtship has not ended 
 with marriage. The parties are simply brought 
 into a lost relationship’ from which they may, 
 by the proper methods, enter into that complete 
 wedding that is the basis of ideal marriage. The 
 newly married husband should’ be sufficiently 
 master of himself to control his passions,.and. he 
 should gain his wife’s complete confidence... Her 
 association with him will, in good time, . bring 
 her to that state of reciprocity where the con- 
 summation of the marriage may~ be. effected, in 
 such a manner as to be mutually joyful, stimulat- 
 
 ing and ennobling. 
 
 PHENOMENA ATTENDING CONCEPTION 
 There is no doubt but that a majority of the 
 
 readers of this book, are; or will become hus- 
 bands and fathers. To be prepated’ for that’ 
 
 function, and to understand ‘what their relations 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 167 
 
 to their wives should be under all the circum-° 
 stances attending conception, birth and the car- 
 ing’ for ‘the ‘child, until it has’ reached’ an age 
 where a mother’s care, so far as its physical be- 
 ing is: concerned, is no longer necessary, ‘it is 
 necessary to: branch off here upon a description 
 of:'the: physiological changes: which: take» place™ 
 in, the, female, at, and after conception: 
 -In.the preceding..chapter. we have gone into. 
 the method of. ovulation... Now, when. the. re- 
 pined ovum descends into the womb, and_.is met 
 there by a spermatazoa, impregnation. occurs. 
 There is a diversity of opinion as how the. sper-, 
 matazoa comes into contact with the ovum. .Some 
 authorities hold that the spermatazoa possess 
 sufficiently the power of motion, to propel them- 
 selves through the mouth of the womb, and into 
 the uterus, where they come in contact with the 
 ovum; others contend that during  coition, the 
 mouth of the ttterus opens, that there is a profuse ~ 
 
 secretion at that point from the tiny glands that - 
 
168 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 surround it, and that there is a mechanical force 
 of sufficient strength to draw up into the uterus 
 the semen which may be deposited at the mouth 
 of the womb upon the ejaculation of the male. 
 Whatever may be true with regard to this, the 
 spermatazoa finds its way to the ovum, and im- 
 mediately penetrates it. Within a few hours, the 
 ovum thus impregnated, attaches itself to the 
 walls of the uterus, where it grows fast; as soon 
 as this occurs the mouth of the womb becomes 
 closed, ovulation is suspended in the ovaries, and 
 to all intents and purposes the sexual function of 
 the mother is suspended until after birth, and 
 
 the period of lactation is passed. 
 
 CONTROLLING SEX OF OFFSPRING 
 
 Of late years considerable interest has been 
 aroused in the subject of control of the sex in 
 offspring. Prof. Schenck, a German physician, 
 gained considerable notoriety by announcing a 
 
 few years ago that he understood how to effect 
 
 ~ 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES  t¥69 
 
 such control, that parents could have either a 
 girl or a boy, as they wished. 
 
 This matter has been understood, to some de- 
 gree by animal breeders, for many years, but no 
 absolute rule has ever been formulated. At the 
 present time it seems to be the general opinion 
 of such as have studied the phenomena, that a 
 limited diet, vigorous exercise on the part of 
 the pregnant woman, a life in the open air,—in 
 short all those habits that go with an austere and 
 ascetic life, persisted in from the time of concep- 
 tion, will, in a majority of cases, be followed by 
 the birth of a male. And that high feeding, lei- 
 sure, absence of physical exertion during the 
 period of gestation, will in a majority of cases, 
 result in the birth of a female. This is the theory 
 horse and cattle breeders proceed upon, and it is 
 the only one that appears to have a scintilla of 
 
 scientific authority to support it. 
 
 ATTITUDE OF HUSBAND TO WIFE 
 
 Women may gratify their husbands’ amorous- 
 
170 ‘SEXUAL ‘VITALITY: 
 
 ness during the early stages of pregnancy; but it 
 is a matter that doesnot need’ proof, thatiin’ all 
 cases, save such as» present abnormal degree of 
 amorousness, the wife is not-a patticipant in the 
 act, in the sense that she shouldbe; and>the»act 
 itself. is of more ‘or less detriment to her ‘and: to 
 the child she is to bear. Ve 
 
 Following impregnation, there, is.rapid, de+ 
 velopment. of the foetus; .The.attachment.to the 
 wall of the uterus gradually assumes the form. of 
 a sac, in.which, there are. numerous blood vessels, 
 through which the embryo may be furnished nu- 
 
 triment.. The blood circulation of the mother 
 and infant are practically one, until the child 
 
 leaves the mother’ s body, and it is necessary for 
 the mother to be in a healthy condition to have 
 a well nurtured body, i in order to bear a healthy 
 and vital child. The period necessary for the de- 
 velopment of the embryo to the state at which 
 
 birth occurs is about nine lunar months. When, 
 for arly reason birth occurs sooner it ig an abor- 
 tion ef Nature’s intent, or a miscarriages 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES | 171 
 
 ACTS THAT BRING SUFFERING” 
 
 Insmodern years the practise of producing 
 abortions; or miscarriages ‘has grown’ to a ‘tre 
 mendous extent. Justa word is necessary ‘here: 
 and perhaps women would not heed’ it if they 
 were told it. oyerand,over.again and again; ; No 
 woman can interfere with the course of..Nature 
 by producing, or submitting to an abortion, with- 
 out gravely imperilling her own life. No woman 
 who has. ever had an abortion performed. is ever 
 after the same physically and mentally as: she: was 
 before, She becomes the victim of grave female 
 disorders, for which the medical profession, have 
 not discovered any cures, 
 
 A practise almost as harmful is that-of seeking. 
 to prevent conception... France, asa nation,-has 
 endeavored.to control, the birth rate, and>:with: 
 what result. the history of the race, and ‘its laws: 
 and disorders for.a century testify: The desire 
 to prevent conception is‘itself an outrage upon 
 
 the nature and instincts of the race, and would 
 
172 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 produce ill results if it were never the father to 
 an act, but the methods by which this is attempted 
 result in a vast amount of suffering and the re- 
 ducing of women to lower forms intellectually 
 
 and physically. 
 
 PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION WRONG 
 
 There is no safe method of attempting to pre- 
 vent conception. Certain physiologists, basing 
 their theory upon the monthly maturing of an 
 ovum, have set it down as being reasonably safe to 
 cohabit during the two weeks midway between the 
 periods of menstruation, but time and again con- 
 ception has taken place under these circum- 
 stances, and the theory fails as often as it is borne 
 out by experience. 
 
 Resort to any form of mechanical] device is of 
 ‘the gravest detriment. With these forms of pre- 
 vention there cannot be that completion of the 
 act that is necessary for the well being of the 
 sexes, and the participants merely subject them- 
 
 selves to unnatural losses for the sake of gratify- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 173 
 
 ing an aborted instinct. Their use is invariably 
 followed by inflamed and deranged conditions of 
 the sexual tract, which if permitted to continue in 
 a short time become chronic and reduce the indi- 
 vidual to the estate of a perpetual sufferer. 
 
 In short, Nature seems to have hedged about 
 this great function with every safeguard to pre- 
 vent it from being abused, and she punishes every 
 act that tends to abuse it. Reason and knowledge 
 should be the accompaniments of it, and where 
 either is lacking there should not be even the op- 
 portunity for the gratification that brute instinct 
 
 seeks. 
 
 RULES FOR THE WEDDED 
 Unquestionably the healthy, the most economi- 
 
 cal rule for the congress of the sexes, from the 
 view point of Nature, which is always economical, 
 is for the wedded pair to cohabit at the period 
 when Nature has prepared the ovum for impreg- 
 nation. That is the object of the function, and 
 
 the changing of it to any other form is a de- 
 
174 “SEXUAL VITALITY: . 
 
 parture from law.; It' makes no difference: what 
 may be: said -for-it; or what theories advanced in 
 its defence, - It is useless to attempt to argue the 
 point with a libertine, and if such-read-this book, 
 we only have to say, they. have done.and will do 
 much ill to themselves and-others, but Nature has 
 kindly. set.a barrier to the ill they may do, and the 
 sooner. their, potency..ceases the. better. it will be 
 for all.concerned.. | 
 
 ‘We are. speaking especially. to-those who are 
 honest in wanting to know;.and who are intclli- 
 gent enough to be guided: by what their own rea- 
 son and experience will tell them is right. -Per- 
 haps any attempt to hold the race as a general 
 thing down to this strict rule would result in as 
 great a degree of individual s suffering as it would 
 produce general good. There is no question but 
 that an improved race would follow, but for those 
 who live now, there might be conditions of grave 
 import, The gratification of desire on the part 
 
 of the sexes, like the menstrual, function, while 
 
MISCELLANEOUS: NOTES 175 
 
 not a natrual desire in the beginning, by. long-cus- 
 tom has. become such, and must. be recognized..as 
 such... It, merely becomes; then, a question as to 
 where a curb shall be placed. We have seen-how 
 license will bring impotency, how excess wrecks, 
 and the reader i iS perhaps more interested i in. the 
 question of where the line between gratification 
 
 and license or libertinism exists. 
 
 “INFORMATION FOR GUIDANCE OF 
 HUSBAND AND WIFE 
 
 z This is a question some. writers Wee left un- 
 answered on the theory that in every, pair of in- 
 dividuals different conditions and, different tem- 
 peraments, different energies and different physi- 
 cal powers are shown. This, in a. measure, is 
 true, and it opens the way, for the general state- 
 ment, that the weak, those suffering from: a-de- 
 pletion. of the physical. and nervous forces, from 
 either over-work Or worry, should never permit 
 themselves to go in that condition to the sexual 
 
 embrace... Nothing but harm can. result from. it. 
 
176 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 This, of course, means that those suffering from 
 energy-devouring diseases, should be careful not 
 to sap their little store of vitality by any such at- 
 tempts. 
 
 WHAT HYGIENE DEMANDS | 
 Then comes the question of to what extent the 
 
 average individuals, husband and wife, of ordi- 
 nary health and strength may safely gratify their 
 amorousness, without inviting harm. The only 
 safe guide is this: Never carry the indulgence 
 to the point of producing exhaustion, or a feeling 
 following the act of depression and weakness. 
 With this guide, each individual or pair should be 
 able to determine what is best adapted to their 
 individual strength, resisting powers and general 
 health. 
 
 It is plain, we take it, to the most ignorant 
 reader, that hygiene cannot be conserved by in- 
 discriminate intercourse, not by intercourse, when 
 the female is in the midst of her menstrual period. 
 
 Perhaps this caution is not needed, but we have 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 177 
 
 heard of some brutal husbands, whose distorted 
 ideas of their marital rights were such that their 
 suffering wives were even made to bear with 
 their brutal lust when suffering actual pain, and 
 when in such a condition that any excitement of 
 
 the parts might occasion grave septic disorders. 
 
 THE GENERATIVE ACT 
 There are a few other points of interest, which 
 may as well be discussed here, as elsewhere. Few 
 questions are of more practical importance to the 
 human race than under what circumstances the 
 generative act should be performed. I will give 
 my opinion briefly, stating the reasons where they 
 
 are not self-evident or apparent. i 
 The generative act should be performed by two 
 persons, arrived at a full development of their 
 powers, physical and intellectual. At all events, 
 this should be the condition of one of the parties 
 —better of both. The children of young and im- 
 
 mature parents are apt to be weak and scrofulous. 
 
178 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 Age can not be given as an absolute index of ma- 
 
 turity, and there are some who are never mature. 
 
 LOVE IMPORTANT 
 It should be performed with all the attraction 
 
 and charm of a mutual love; and the existence of 
 this is the best evidence that the parties are suit- 
 ably related to each other; for those similarities 
 of constitution, which forbid the marriage of near 
 relations, and which often exist without consan- 
 guinity, and are sometimes wanting with it, also 
 prevent a true love. Hence, marriages of family 
 interest, convenience, similarity of tastes, and 
 friendship, may be very unfortunate with respect 
 to children. Love, and its functions, require a 
 mingling of opposite qualities. No man ought 
 ever to beget a child for a woman he does not 
 love; and, especially, no woman ought ever to 
 submit to the sexual embrace of a man, unless 
 assured that the union is sanctioned by a mutual 
 passion. Every child should be a love-child, and 
 
 this is the only legitimacy that nature knows; and 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 179 
 
 this would be the case, if the legal marriage was 
 what it always should be, the outward expression 
 
 of an inward reality. 
 
 f 
 
 DISEASED SHOULD ABSTAIN . 
 
 It should not be performed, by either man or 
 woman, so as to entail hereditary disease upon 
 their offspring. Insanity, scrofula, consumption, 
 syphilis, diseased amativeness, deformities of 
 body, or distressing singularities of mind, should 
 
 not be entailed upon posterity. 
 
 AVOIDIN G CONCEPTION 
 A woman should avoid conception, if her pelvis 
 is so small, or so deformed, as to hazard her own 
 life in delivery, or destroy that of the child, or 
 
 compel an abortion. 
 
 SEX IN MIND 
 Influence of sex runs through the whole mental 
 and moral character. Men differ from women 
 as much in brain as in body. They have certain 
 
 organs relatively larger, and others relatively 
 
180 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 smaller, than women. The moral organs cor- 
 respond intimately with all physical differences. 
 There is a vast number of traits of character con- 
 nected with the testes and its secretion in the male, 
 as well as in the ovaries, uterus, clitoris, and 
 mammary glands of the female. No man can 
 know what a world of delicate tenderness finds 
 its seat in a woman’s swelling bosom; so no 
 woman can know all the nobility of manhood that 
 
 centres in the virile organs of the man. 
 
 WOMAN ABUSED 
 If we could compare the most masculine 
 
 woman with the most feminine man, there would 
 still be a wide difference. But this wide differ- 
 ence does not prove that woman was intended to 
 be the slave, the tool, and the victim of man, as 
 she is and has been. In making her such, man 
 wrongs his own nature as much as he wrongs 
 hers, and he wrongs the whole human race. If 
 man would follow his own pure instincts, woman 
 
 would have nothing to complain of, and nothing 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 181 
 
 to desire. By the rights of her love, by the power 
 of her beauty, by the strength and tenderness of 
 her passional nature, she would be acknowledged 
 as the queen of the social universe, while man 
 would reign in the sphere of intellect and ma- 
 terial achievement. 
 
 We do not exaggerate the perfections of 
 woman. We think we know her character, and 
 we demand her rights, not so much for her own 
 sake as for the sake of all. We can have no true 
 social condition until woman finds her much- 
 talkked-of “sphere.” 
 
 WHAT IS VIRTUE 
 
 The meaning of the word is manhood, but its 
 present application is almost entirely feminine. A 
 virtuous woman is one who strictly conforms to 
 the customs of society. If unmarried, she is vir-. 
 tuous if she refrains from gratifying her sexual 
 desires with a man, though she may destroy her- 
 self by masturbation. In fact, the most rigid 
 
 prudes, those who repulse all the approaches of 
 
182 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 men the most indignantly, and who condemn all 
 freedom in others most violently, are commonly 
 those who have destroyed all desire or capacity 
 for pleasure in themselves by early and continued 
 self-pollution. This is civilized virtue. 
 
 Virtue, in a married woman, is to submit to the 
 embraces of a husband she never loved, or has 
 ceased to love, and to deny herself to any other. 
 A true chastity and a true fidelity are worthy of 
 all praise, but there are few things in the world 
 
 more false than what is often considered virtue. 
 
 WOMAN EXPECTED TO BE AN ANGEL 
 
 Owing to the usurped despotism of man over 
 woman, the civilized standard of virtue differs 
 much in the sexes. A woman is expected to 
 come, a chaste virgin, to the arms of her husband; 
 but a man would incur ridicule who should make 
 such a pretension. A man who indulges in gal- 
 
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 lantries is “rather gay” ;“a little wild, you know” ; 
 “sowing his wild oats”; but is only the more dis- 
 
 tinguished and caressed. Unless coarse, low and 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 1838 
 
 excessively profligate, his youthful gallantries are 
 no bar to marriage. The same conduct in a 
 young woman, if known, drives her from society 
 and plunges her into a pit of infamy and despair. 
 It is the same, though in a less degree, of married 
 men and women. In the upper classes, men have 
 less liberty after marriage, and women more; still, 
 there is far from being an equality. 
 
 There seem to us to be certain simple, common- 
 sense rules, which may apply even amid our social 
 discordances and consequent immoralities. 
 
 There should be honesty. Men and women 
 should not more deceive each other in love mat- 
 ters than in business. If they do, they are 
 swindlers and cheats. A simple, frank honesty 
 would do much to reform love relations. 
 
 In point of fact, men and women are not on 
 equal terms, in the present form of marriage. 
 Women have no pecuniary independence, nor, ex- 
 cept in rare cases, the means of acquiring it. For 
 
 the most part they are dependent parasites; and, 
 
184 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 though the cares of a family and the bearing of 
 children may be equal to any exertions of the 
 husband, still the woman, by custom and law, is 
 made dependent upon man for support. As long 
 as a woman lives in this condition of acknow- 
 ledged dependence, she must conform to her hus- 
 band’s wishes, and can not exercise the rights of 
 
 a sovereign individual. 
 
 WOMAN SHOULD CHOOSE 
 
 A woman has, naturally, the supreme right of 
 choosing who shall be the father of her child; but 
 she can have no right to receive the support of 
 one man, while she bears a child to another, ex- 
 cept by consent. A woman is bound, therefore, 
 to be true to her marriage relation, while that re- 
 lation exists. She has no more right to cheat 
 her husband than a slave has to cheat his master. 
 It is true that if love, the sole condition of mar- 
 riage, does not exist, it is no marriage in fact, but 
 only in form; a mere sham, a legalized adultery, 
 
 a sin against nature and its author. God joins 
 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 185 
 
 people in love; not in simply friendship, not in 
 indifference, not in hate and discord, repulsion 
 and horror. But if a woman, for any considera- 
 tion of property, or children, or worldliness, 
 choose to remain in such a relation, she must be 
 true to its falsity. 
 
 The duties of a husbind to his wife must be 
 reciprocal just as far as their relations are equili- 
 brated. In some respects they strikingly differ. 
 During a large portion of the time, a child-bear- 
 ing woman is not in a condition to allow sexual 
 intercourse. A woman has usually no such ex- 
 cuse for infidelity. A man, in the sexual act im- 
 parts; a woman receives, and possibly retains. 
 With the man, the physical consequences termi- 
 nate with the act; with the woman, they may re- 
 main for months and years. These are evidently 
 real differences, which must modify our ideas of 
 duty and criminality, in and out the marriage 
 relation, and the civilized notions in this respect 
 
 are not entirely destitute of foundation. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 SEXUAL HYGIENE, 
 
 The subject of this chapter covers the ground 
 of the most general ignorance and inquiry. In 
 a dim way many persons realize the conditions 
 and facts set forth in preceding chapters, and 
 
 the question arises, “What shall we do?” 
 
 DIET 
 The best advice is to be temperate. Temper- 
 
 ance never produces disorder. The man who 
 ceases eating before his appetite is entirely satis- 
 fied seldom suffers from disorders of the diges- 
 tive organs. We have attempted to show that 
 lust, a creature fed on intemperance in sexual 
 matters, is the real destroyer of virility. Do not 
 permit yourself to become a slave to the monster, 
 Avoiding this, or throwing off the bondage if 
 you have fallen under it, the rest becomes easy. 
 186 ; 
 
SEXUAL HYGIENE 187 
 
 Systematic daily exercise that will provide nat- 
 ural, wholesome, and non-exciting stimulation of 
 the muscular portions of the system should be 
 regularly practised. 
 
 HABITS 
 
 The habits of eating, sleeping, bathing, should 
 likewise be regular. Water is one of most sooth- 
 ing agents of Nature, and while its external use, 
 beyond its cleansing functions, may not contri- 
 bute any remedial elements, it allays influcations, 
 relieves congestion, and aids the organs of the 
 
 body to re-establish their normal functions. 
 
 WATER 
 Besides bathing often and regularly, every in- 
 
 dividual should drink a sufficient quantity of pure 
 water. Most persons fail to do this, as they fail 
 to breathe as much air as the body requires to 
 carry on its ceaseless activities. Habits of drink- 
 ing at regular intervals, and stated quantities, 
 will be found beneficial in a great many cases. 
 
 In all cases of derangement of the sexual or- 
 
188 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 gans, the internal bath, or colon flushing, for 
 the rectum, is a beneficial measure. It serves to 
 relieve the congested parts from pressure, be- 
 sides allaying inflammations, and cleansing the 
 colon of poisonous matters. 
 
 In cases of acute inflammation of the parts, due 
 to such diseases as are manifested locally, the 
 forms of hydropathic treatment are very effica- 
 
 cious. 
 
 GONNORRHOEA 
 Gonnorrhoea is a local disease, and cleansing 
 
 the urethra with frequent injections of warm 
 water, and applying cold water packs externally 
 
 is one of the best treatments. 
 
 SYPHILIS 
 In attacks of syphilis, the disease being con- 
 
 stitutional, the treatment must be such. A diet 
 largely vegetarian, and observance of all the 
 strength building rules heretofore mentioned, to- 
 gether with every means you can employ for com- 
 
 pletely oxygenating the blood in the lungs, is the 
 
SEXUAL HYGIENE 189 
 
 best form of treatment. A good physician should 
 be consulted at once when this disease appears. It 
 usually manifests itself by an external lesion, 
 and no chances should be taken. 
 
 Diet is a matter of considerable importance. 
 One should never eat food that taxes the powers 
 in its digestion, or that tends to produce constipa- 
 tion. A mixed diet, with plenty of uncooked 
 vegetables and fruits, is the best. Highly sea- 
 soned dishes, sugary and starchy foods should be 
 eaten very sparingly. And tea, coffee, liquors, 
 tobacco, and all nerve exciting drugs should be 
 
 eschewed entirely. 
 
 FOR LOCAL INFLAMATIONS 
 In all disorders affecting the testes and ovaries, 
 
 suck as inflammation, varicocele, intuoles, swell- 
 ings, etc., the best course to pursue, is to abso- 
 lutely avoid the least sexual excitement, until the 
 trouble is overcome. Where the testes are af- 
 fected, a support should be worn while the acute 
 
 stage of the trouble continues. Two or three 
 
190 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 times daily,acold sitz bath should betaken, lasting 
 from one to three minutes, and a thick, wet cloth 
 should be bound over the parts on retiring, and 
 allowed to remain all night. Varicocele, which 
 is an enlargement of one of the veins of the scro- 
 tum, cannot be overcome speedily, and this treat- 
 ment, together with light stimulating exercises 
 must be persisted in for several months to effect 
 
 a cure, 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 CHASTITY. 
 
 Among the many erroneous things promul- 
 gated with regard to the sexual function, none 
 has been productive of more harm than that 
 which is held among a vast majority of the un- 
 educated,—that the exercise of the function is 
 absolutely necessary to health. As soon as a boy 
 is old enough to meet with his fellows in school, 
 or in business, his mind is assailed by this per- 
 nicious theory, and he is led to believe that his 
 lack of developing in any manly direction is due 
 to the lack of exercise of this function. So he 
 is made a recruit for the places of prostitution, 
 and led to offer his body a sacrifice to some or 
 all of the loathsome diseases that have their ori- 
 gin there. There is assuredly need for some 
 plain speaking on this particular point for the 
 
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192 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 benefit of those who may still possess their nat- 
 ural gift of manhood, without having impaired 
 
 it as so many thousands do by wrong acts. 
 
 NATURE’S PROVISIONS 
 
 At a glance it seems strange that nature should 
 have provided for the visitation of such severe 
 penalities upon the gratification of the sexual 
 instincts outside of the married state, and at the 
 same time have rendered their gratification uader 
 proper hygienic, and sanitary conditions, bene- 
 ficial, and healthful. Because of the presence 
 of the desire, some writers on the subject have 
 placed the gratification of this desire on the same 
 plane as the gratification of appetite for food. 
 They claim that both are essential. We hope 
 that those who have read the preceding chapters 
 of this book, and understand something about 
 the physiology of the sexual system, will be able 
 to see clearly the error of such teaching as this. 
 Some of these writers have gone so far as to con- 
 
 jure up imaginary cases of horrible aspects, due, 
 
CHASTITY 1938 
 
 so they claim, to sexual starvation. These voice 
 the blind, superstititous belief of that great un- 
 der-mass that knows desire, but knows nothing 
 
 of its laws of proper expression. 
 
 NO SEXUAL STARVATION 
 
 A little examination of the claims of this the- 
 ory will convince any one against it. We chal- 
 lenge any person, professional or otherwise, to 
 produce a caseof theso-called “sexual starvation,” 
 where conditions inimical to health resulted from 
 failure to periodically gratify the sexual desire. 
 The desire for sexual congress can not in any 
 way be likened to the desire for food. One de- 
 sires food daily. It is necessary for the support 
 of the body, for the production of energy, for 
 keeping all the functions of the body properly 
 working. The sexual desire, on the contrary 
 is a sporadic one. It is not present with the un- 
 varying regularity of the desire for food, save in 
 such persons, as have completely distorted and 
 
 changed their nature. It is a desire dependent 
 
194 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 upon something outside of the individual’s own 
 body—some exciting cause. A thought, in- 
 duced by some pictured object, or by the appear- 
 ance of a member of the opposite sex. The tak- 
 ing of food, to carry the comparison further, re- 
 sults in building up the body. Every act of sex- 
 ual congress, in greater or less degree, produces 
 
 debility and destruction. 
 
 STIMULATION OF THE IN STINCT 
 
 As stated in a previous chapter, sexual instincts 
 in both sexes are in a condition to be manifested, 
 when the proper environment offers, when the re- 
 spective ages reach puberty. In the case of the 
 male, there are certain distinct manifestations 
 in connection with this period, as we have pointed 
 out previously, but none of them point emphati- 
 cally to the fact that there is a physiological de- 
 mand for the exercise of the function. Too early 
 an exercise of the sexual organs of the youth, 
 however, they be made, will result in stunting | 
 
 the growth, retarding the mental development, 
 
CHASTITY 195 
 
 and produce various physical derangements be- 
 sides. In some cases it kills outright. For this 
 same reason, masturbation is condemned by phy- 
 sicians and moralists, for the great physical evil 
 it works in its victims. Its effects are not a whit 
 less disastrous in the case of the immature youth 
 than the use of the sexual organs in a natural 
 way, during the adolescent period. The only 
 difference between the two forms of indulgence, 
 is that masturbation presents a constant oppor- 
 tunity, absent in most cases of youthful indul- 
 
 gence in prostitution. 
 
 CHASTITY BENEFICIAL 
 
 That it is possible for the youth, or the mature 
 man to carry himself for indefinite periods with- 
 out resorting to the indulgence of the instinct, is 
 convincingly proved. Thousands have done it 
 and instead of imparing their energy, strength, or 
 virility have greatly increased them all. The most 
 perfectly developed, and greatest resisting indi- 
 
 viduals are thore who pass through the trying 
 
196 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 period of youth without weakening themselves by 
 any gratification of the sexual instinct whatever. 
 Such individuals excel in bodily development, in 
 mental force, and in all those powers that go to 
 make the complete man. 
 
 THEORIES 
 
 Those who oppose the idea of chastity, argue 
 that when the age of puberty arrives, the manu- 
 facture of semen begins in the testes, and that 
 there must be an avenue for its discharge or de- 
 triment will result. We need only to point such 
 reasoners to the animals, which are reared under 
 conditions that make it impossible for them to 
 gratify this instinct, and they are invariably fine 
 specimens. When a stdllion, for instance, is put 
 to the stud, he is no longer useful as a race horse, 
 in which pursuit there is a demand for the great- — 
 est degree of energy, vim and physical power. 
 Deterioration in these particulars begin when he 
 enters the list of breeders. Another strong argu- 
 
 inent against this idea is found in the carefuliy 
 
CHASTITY 197 
 
 collected results of physicians, who have made a 
 study of the subject. From statistics collected 
 by these it appears that the youth who has con- 
 scientiously avoided the gratification of his desire 
 in every shape and manner, is virtually free from 
 
 nocturnal emissions, 
 
 THE LAW OF DESIRE 
 
 The law stands that with respect to this desire, 
 and its gratification, the mind is the master. 
 That lust kept from a foothold in its precincts, 
 purity and chastity and all the blessings that ac- 
 company them are certain. A clean mind, prop- 
 perly drilled, and taught to direct intelligently 
 the acts of the body and desire, is a servant that 
 will not even trouble with its appearance and 
 will not occasion any great effort to keep it in con- 
 trol. The youth, or man, who desires to so bridle 
 and curb, lust and desire, must abstain from in- 
 
 toxicants, from drugs, from heating foods, and 
 
198 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 live a regular life, in which exercise is regularly 
 
 taken, and there is constant and intelligent care 
 of the body, with regard to bathing, and the 
 regular performance of its function of the de- 
 
 purating organs. 
 DR. TRALL’S OPINIOW 
 Dr. Trall, who went deeply into this subject, 
 
 says: “One may so live as to keep all his lower 
 propensities in a state of preternatural excite- 
 ment, and mistaking the insatiate cravings of 
 morbid instinct for a natural necessity, soon ex- 
 haust the power of life by inordinate indulgence. 
 Such has been the history of thousands who have 
 applied to me for advice. Had they been proper- 
 ly directed in early life, their history would have 
 been different. The more these desires are stimu- 
 lated, the stronger they become, until any refusal 
 of gratification will seem to result in serious dis- 
 order of the procreative organs. Yet such dis- 
 orders betoken a no more diseased state of these 
 
 organs than did the constant excitation and de- 
 
CHASTITY 199 
 
 mand for relief. A habit has been acquired of 
 unnatural activity in the testicular glands, so that 
 the spermatic vessels become congested with the 
 seminal secretion, and the secretion produces a 
 sense of relief. But no sooner are the congested 
 vessels emptied than they begin to fill at once, and 
 again reach a state of congestion. They must be 
 restored to their normal action,and that cannot be 
 done by continuing or further increasing their 
 activity. Excessive gratification, either in a natu- 
 ral or unnatural way, tends to derangement and 
 premature impotency.” 
 
 Most of the seeming demands for the gratifi- 
 cation of the sexual instinct among men, married 
 and unmarried, are due to false notions and false 
 modes of living, and uncleanliness of the sexual 
 organs, or the colon. Frequent and thorough 
 bathing of the parts in cold water will remove 
 accumulations of irritating substances, and tend 
 to allay inflammations. Sponging off the parts 
 
 with cold water twice a day, and in cases where 
 
200 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 there is any weakened condition of the system, 
 a daily sitz bath of from eight to fifteen minutes’ 
 
 duration will be found very efficacious. 
 
 CURE FOR IMPURE THOUGHTS 
 
 In this connection, it is perhaps well to quote 
 a few words by Dr. Dio Lewis, who was one of 
 the foremost authorities on this subject. He said, 
 anent the necessity for controlling the mind. and 
 avoiding the harboring of lascivious thoughts: 
 
 “Where one person is injured by sexual com- 
 merce, many are made nervous and feverish by 
 harboring lewd thoughts. Rioting in visions of 
 nude women may exhaust one as much as an 
 excess in actual intercourse. This species of in- 
 dulgence is well-nigh universal, and as it is the 
 source of all the other forms, the fountain from 
 which other vices spring, the nursery of mastur- 
 bation and prostitution, it is surprising that so 
 little has been said about it.” The following 
 was the advice he gave to a patient, troubled with 
 impure thoughts: 
 
CHASTITY 201 
 
 “Fix it in your mind that a sensual idea is 
 harmful ; then the instant one comes it will startle 
 you. By an effort of will, change the subject im- 
 mediately. You can do this if you are in earnest. 
 Set such an alarm in your mind that if the las- 
 civious thought occurs when you are asleep it will 
 waken you. A number of persons have tried this 
 method and found it effective. Each effort will 
 be easier, until after a week or two you will have 
 complete control of your thoughts, and you will 
 
 feel much more like a man, and be more like one.” 
 
 CELIBACY 
 
 In connection with this subject of chastity, an- 
 other suggests itself. What about celibacy, sin- 
 gle blessedness; living alone? This question has 
 occupied many minds. Some unhesitatingly pro- 
 nounce it false, unnatural and unhealthy for 
 either man or woman. Others contend that there 
 is no degree of ill health attendant upon it. We 
 incline to this latter belief. When the thought is 
 
 right, one may live in that state as long, and be 
 
202 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 as healthy as any other individual. Indeed some 
 of the statistics seem to indicate that celibacy 
 is conducive to longevity. Be that as it may, 
 there are certain conditions, under which it is ab- 
 solutely imperative. And the public should be 
 quickly schooled to that idea. Any man or 
 woman that suffers from a wasting disease, that 
 has any deformity, or, who is not in a position 
 to properly take care of children, to provide them 
 that environment that would afford them an op- 
 portunity for proper development, should not 
 think of marrying, and consequently should not 
 
 undertake the gratification of the sexual instinct, 
 
 WHO SHOULD REMAIN SINGLE 
 That both men and women are happier in the 
 married state, there can be no doubt, and we 
 recommend it, but in every instance, it is recom- 
 mended for the wholly strong, those capable of 
 becoming parents and providing for families— 
 
 not merely begetting offspring that shall be 
 
CHASTITY 263 
 
 lower in the scale of being than many brutes. 
 Such persons commit a heinous crime. 
 
 There are many pleasures for the celibate, that 
 may be enjoyed by those who are in circum- 
 stances of health, or otherwise, that prevent them 
 from being proper candidates for matrimony. 
 Their minds are free from family cares; they 
 are not subjected to the stresses of passion and 
 emotion that are the lot of those who wed. Ac- 
 quaintance with a great many unmarried persons 
 of both sexes whose high spirits, fine appearance, 
 and good temper, show that they are of the 
 healthiest types, indicate that in the matter of 
 health, they are as greatly favored as any of the 
 
 race. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 GENERAL HINTS. 
 
 Any work intended to be of practical value to 
 the individual would not be complete without in- 
 cluding in its pages the directions for building 
 strength and virility. The expression of Opinion 
 on the various subjects treated herein are valuable 
 as educating the reader regarding the powers and 
 limitations of his own body. Having familiar- 
 ized himself with these, the next step is to begin 
 the development of such attributes as are desir- 
 able, and especially preparing the body to manu- 
 facture and preserve energy in the greatest de- 
 gree. To that end, we have included in this 
 work, a chapter, in which is set forth a simple, 
 easy, but scientific and highly effective system of 
 physical culture, which can be advantageously 
 employed in connection with the hygienic regu- 
 
 204 
 
GENERAL HINTS 205 
 
 lations laid down in other chapters. Bear in 
 mind that a sound body is the best temple of a 
 sound mind, and that the healthier and stronger 
 your body is the better prepared it is for produc- 
 ing energy, or for resisting the attacks of dis- 
 eases, or counterbalancing the effects of weaken- 
 ing influences. We strongly recommend the 
 readers of this volume to begin at once the prac- 
 tise of the exercises illustrated and explained in 
 the concluding chapter, and we can assure them 
 that the more faithfully they perform those gen- 
 eral body building and circulation stimulating ex- 
 ercises, the quicker will be their improvement in 
 other directions. 
 
 ‘These exercises will provide a method too, for 
 offsetting the baneful influences of too sedantary 
 a life in the case of children in schools, or persons 
 
 engaged in office employments. 
 
 EXERCISE A REMEDY 
 The researches of scientists into the causes of 
 
 the vices whose baneful effects we have referred 
 
206 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 to elswhere, and which have made so many per- 
 sons slaved and subjects, can best be combated 
 by mild stimulation of the general physical pow- 
 ers, without reference to particularly strengthen- 
 ing the sexual system, and in all cases where the 
 trouble threatened rather than manifestly present, 
 we can emphatically say that a careful, consistent 
 course of physical training, with this system as 
 the foundation, pursued to the extent of produc- 
 ing a mild degree of fatigue each day will give 
 one quick and complete mastery of the mind, 
 and aid in driving out the impure thoughts that 
 are so potent of evil. 
 
 INDOLENCE A BREEDER OF VICE 
 
 It has been found that the greatest degree of 
 vice and depravity, with reference to population, 
 exists in those communities where there is least 
 physical development, and the least expression 
 of energy along purely physical lines. Where 
 environment and conditions make necessary a life 
 
 of considerable activity we find the nearest ap- 
 
GENERAL HINTS 207 
 
 proaches to that chastity that should be the prac- 
 tise of all, and as we approach nearer and nearer 
 to those warm enervating climes where life is 
 easily maintained, and hardships and bodily fa- 
 tigue are seldom required, there is a tremendous 
 increase in vice, and its attendant ills, and dis- 
 
 eases. 
 
 PROGRESS SLOW BUT SURE 
 
 We can not say to readers of this book that the 
 pursuance of the simple exercises, alone, shown 
 in a previous chapter, and the constant practise of 
 the bathing and other hygienic agencies that we 
 have recommended in the treatment and develop- 
 ment of those troubles will result in hasty perma- 
 nent cures, if practised without the assistance of 
 other body building methods. But we can state 
 that if a consistent system of body stimulation is 
 entered upon, and persistently followed, in time 
 the worst cases of sexual debility and derange- 
 ment can be eventually overcome. We do not 
 
 desire to raise false hopes in the breasts of the un- 
 
208 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 fortunate by stating to them that they can easily 
 become the strongest specimens of their race, but 
 they may be healthy, and add many years to their 
 lives by taking the course here prescribed. It 
 will require persistence in the line of endeavor 
 outlined here. Some cases will unquestionably 
 quickly react, and there will be apparent hasty re- 
 covery ; but some cases, where conditions have be- 
 come chronic, it will require persistence, and per- 
 severance for many months before the longed for 
 results will follow. The reader must bear in 
 mind that the undermining process required many 
 months, and years to bring the sufferer to his 
 present condition, and that rehabilitation by nat- 
 ural methods will of necessity be slow. Cell by 
 cell, certain portions of the body will have to be 
 repaired, and new tissues built up, and as this is 
 done, general improvement of a gradual sort will 
 
 be noticed. 
 
 FOR THOSE PAST FORTY 
 
 There are cases in which too much exercise 
 
GENERAL HINTS 209 
 
 will be of detriment. It is difficult to point these 
 out because hard to know the needs of every in- 
 dividual. In general terms we would state the 
 following advice: In all cases of debility of the 
 sort we have been speaking of in this book, that 
 exists in men who have passed the age of forty 
 years, systematic exercise for the stimulation of 
 the sexual tract, the employment of the sitz and 
 friction baths (the latter taken by rubbing the 
 lower part of the abdomen, the thighs and the 
 external organs with a wet cloth) will be found 
 ‘invariably beneficial. In stich cases the instruc- 
 tions if followed carefully will invariably bring 
 
 results. 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES 
 A powerful physique is by no means a certain 
 
 indication of great sexual power. Indeed, there 
 are professional strong men and well-known 
 athletes before the public to-day who are known 
 to be impotent, but all other things being equal, 
 the more robust and perfectly muscled a man is, 
 the stronger and more enduring his sexual 
 power. 
 
 Physical exercise is an absolute necessity. Its 
 principal value lies in its effect on the circulation 
 of the blood. It plays an important role in the 
 maintenance of sexual power. 
 
 We present herewith a complete system of 
 exercise for the development’ of the entire body, 
 a system which we know to be the most effective 
 now before the public. The system was devised 
 
 210 
 
MOMENTUMSINERTIA EXERCISES 211 
 
 by Prof. Paul von Boeckmann, the well-known 
 physical culturist. 
 It is known as the Momentum-Inertia System. 
 
 THE MOMENTUM-INERTIA SYSTEM 
 OF EXERCISES 
 
 By P. Von Boeckmann 
 
 In my correspondence courses of physical 
 training, I have employed, with marked success, 
 for a number of years, a series of exercises which 
 I termed “tonic exercises.”’ The object of these 
 movements is to stimulate the important nerve 
 centres, and to promote general blood circulation. 
 I have found “tonic exercises” so vastly superior 
 to any other form of physical exercise, not only 
 as a means of invigorating the entire body, but 
 also for the development of the most desirable 
 type of muscular tissue, that I have devised a 
 complete system, or series of exercises, suited to 
 the development of the entire body, based upon 
 the physiological principles that underlie the tonic 
 
 exercises. 
 
212 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 I term this new and original system the 
 “Momentum-Inertia” system, as the movements 
 are based on the well-known principles of 
 
 mechanics—momentum and inertia. 
 
 BLOOD CIRCULATION 
 The Momentum-INeErtIA system of exercises 
 
 differs from all other systems, in that every mo- 
 tion consists of sudden alternate muscular con- 
 tractions and relaxations. From careful observa- 
 tion, with the aid of the sphygmograph, I have 
 found that with the Momentum-INERTIA system 
 of exercise the blood circulation is assisted, not 
 retarded, as in many forms of exercises without 
 apparatus, now so much in vogue. The retarda- 
 tion of circulation is especially noticeable in such 
 exercises as necessitate a muscle remaining in a 
 tense or flexed state, during several successive 
 
 heart beats. 
 
 PLIABLE MUSCLES 
 My system has been thoroughly tested upon 
 
 thousands of pupils, and I, myself, stand as an 
 
MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES 213 
 
 example of its splendid tonic and muscle-produc- 
 ing effects. Though my muscles are as hard as 
 steel when contracted, they are as soft as a babe’s 
 when relaxed—a condition that has caused much 
 wonder and astonishment among the scores of 
 medical and other experts who have examined 
 
 me. 
 
 ENDURANCE 
 As an example of the great advantage of such 
 
 a physiological condition of the muscles, I cite 
 the following test—one of many I have made. I 
 can hold my arm at full length from the shoulder, 
 horizontal to the floor, from half to three-quarters 
 of an hour, without experiencing the least pain, 
 cramping, etc. With a majority of persons, in- 
 cluding alleged strong men, usually five minutes 
 is sufficient to cause intense pain, which is due 
 entirely to strangulation of the blood vessels. 
 MoMENTUM-INERTIA exercises must be per- 
 formed with a sudden snap—that is, the move- 
 
 ments should be quick and vigorous, just as if 
 
aware 
 
 214 SEXUAL VITALITY 
 
 you were striking an imaginary object and sud- 
 denly check the blow. 
 
 Exercise No. 1 is the key to all the movements 
 that follow. Therefore, thoroughly master this 
 exercise, observing every point mentioned in 
 connection with it. Perform all the exercises in 
 a similar manner, as far as your strength and 
 physical condition will allow. It may be advis- 
 able in some cases to execute certain movements 
 
 with one arm at a time, instead of both together. 
 
MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 215 
 
 Exercise No. 1 is the key to all the movements 
 that follow. Therefore, thoroughly master this 
 exercise, observing every point mentioned in con- 
 nection with it. Perform all the exercises in a 
 similar manner, as far as your strength and physi- 
 cal condition will allow. It may be advisable in 
 some cases to execute certain movements with one 
 arm at a time, instead of both together. 
 
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 EXERCISE 1—Assume position as indicated by 
 dotted lines in Fig. 1. Hands partly closed, 
 palms inward, backs of fingers touching lightly. 
 Suddenly strike downward with great force, 
 keeping the arms straight and fingers bent. 
 When the arms reach the position indicated by 
 the solid lines, suddenly check the blow, keeping 
 
216 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 
 
 the arms rigid for an instant. Slowly bring the 
 arms over the head, then repeat the movement 
 until signs of fatigue are felt. The value of the 
 exercise is lost if the arms are brought down in 
 a haphazard manner. The blow and its termi- 
 nation must be made with a snap. Make one 
 blow every three seconds, 
 
 EXERCISE 2—Assume position as indicated by 
 solid lines in Fig. 1. Reverse Exercise I, that 
 is, strike upward with the arms, checking the 
 blow suddenly, so that the fingers barely collide. 
 
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 dotted lines in Fig. 2. Movements same as Ex- 
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 EXERCISE 4—Assume position as indicated in 
 solid lines in Fig. 2. Movement same as Exer- 
 
 cise 2 (hands changed). 
 
218 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES, 
 
 Fig. 3 
 
 EXERCISE 5—Assume position as indicated in 
 dotted fines in Fig. 3. Movement same as Exer- 
 cise I (hands changed). 
 
 Exercise 6—Assume position as indicated by 
 solid lines in Fig 3. Movements same as Exer- 
 cise 2 (hands changed). 
 
MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 219 
 
 Fig. 4 
 
 ExeRcIsE 7—Stand as shown in Fig. 4, hands 
 gently touching. Strike backward, keeping the 
 arms straight and checking the blow when po- 
 sition as shown in Fig. 5 is attained. Observe 
 same rules as in Exercise I. 
 
220 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 
 
 Fig. § 
 
 EXERCISE 8—Reverse Exercise 7, striking for- 
 ward instead of backward. 
 
MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 221, 
 
 Fig. 6 
 
 ExercIsE 9—Assume position as indicated by 
 dotted lines in Fig. 6. Strike downward as 
 shown. Observe previous rules. Note position 
 of the hands. 
 
 EXERCISE 10—Reverse Exercise 9, that is, 
 strike upward. 
 
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 EXERCISE 11—Assume position as indicated in 
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 EXERCISE 12—Reverse of Exercise 11. 
 
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 EXERCISE 13—Assume position as indicated in 
 dotted lines in Fig 8. Execute as Exercises 9 
 and 11. Note position of the hands. 
 
 EXERCISE 14—Reverse of Exercise 13. 
 
224 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 
 
 Fig. 9 
 
 EXERCISE 15—Assume position as indicated in 
 dotted lines in Fig 9. Execute on the- same 
 
 principle as previous exercises, bringing the 
 hands close to the chest. 
 
 EXERCISE 16—Reverse of Exercise 1 5: 
 
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 EXERCISE 17—Assume position as indicated by 
 dotted lines in Fig. 10. Execute movement same 
 as in Exercise 15. Note position of the hands. 
 
 EXERCISE 18—Reverse of Exercise 17. 
 
 EXERCISE 19—Sare as Exercise 17, but with 
 palms downward. 
 
 EXERCISE 20—Reverse of Exercise rg. 
 
226 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES, 
 
 Fig. 11 
 
 EXERCISE 21—Asstume position as indicated by 
 dotted lines in Fig. 11. Hands open and touch- 
 ing lightly. Strike downward as shown, extend- 
 ing the fingers. 
 
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 EXERCISE 22—Assume position as indicated by 
 dotted lines in Fig. 12. Strike downward with 
 the hands so that they almost touch the chest, 
 keeping the fingers extended. 
 
 EXERCISE 23—Reverse of Exercise 22. 
 
228 MOMENTUM INERTIA EXERCISES. 
 
 Fig. 13 
 EXERCISE 24—Assume position as indicated by 
 dotted lines in Fig. 13, keeping the fist clenched 
 
 Strike forward as shown. (Do not reverse this 
 exercise. ) 
 
MOMENTUMSINERTIA EXERCISES. 229 
 
 Fig. 14 
 
 EXERCISE 25—~Assume position as indicated by 
 dotted lines in Fig. 14. Fingers touching lightly. 
 Strike downward as snown. 
 
 EXERCISE 26—Reversz of Exercise 25. 
 
230 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 
 
 Fig, 15 
 
 EXERCISE 27—Alternately swing the arms up- 
 ward and downward as shown in F ig. 15, check- 
 
 ing the movement suddenly at the end of each 
 swing, 
 
MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 231 
 
 Fig. 16 
 
 EXERCISE 28—Walk forward, alternately strik- 
 ing with the right and left hand at an imaginary 
 point in front and on the level with the face. 
 When striking with the left hand, step forward 
 with the left foot; when striking with the right 
 hand, step forward with the right foot. 
 
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 Bring the hands down as indicated, checking the 
 
 movement about three times during the entire 
 half circle, 
 
MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 2383 
 
 Fig. 18 
 
 EXERCISE 30—Stand as shown by the solid 
 lines in Fig. 18. Raise the left foot off the 4oor 
 and allow the body to fall forward, suddenly 
 checking the fall of the body when position as in- 
 dicated by the dotted lines is attained. (In the 
 dotted figure the left foot is in front.) 
 
 EXERCISE 31—Reverse Exercise 30, placing the 
 right foot and right arm in front. 
 
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 dotted lines in Fig. 19 (hands over the head). 
 Strike downward to position indicated when the 
 arms are parallel with the floor. Check the 
 movement at this point an instant, then strike 
 downward as indicated by the solid lines, keeping 
 the knees as straight as possible. 
 
 EXERCISE 33—Reverse Exercise 32. 
 
MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 235 
 
 Fig. 20 
 
 EXERCISE 34—Stand as indicated by solid lines 
 in Fig. 20. Raise the right foot off the floor and 
 allow the body to fall forward, checking the fall 
 when the position indicated by the dotted lines is 
 attained. 
 
 EXERCISE 35—Reverse Exercise 34, bringing 
 the left foot forward. 
 
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 in Fig. 21. Suddenly throw the right foot back, 
 checking the fall of the body when the position 
 indicated by the dotted lines it attained. 
 
 EXERCISE 37—Reverse Exercise 36, threwing 
 back the left foot. 
 
MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 237 
 
 Fig. 22 
 
 EXERCISE 38—Stand as indicated by solid lines 
 in Fig. 22. Throw the right foot back, checking 
 the fall of the body when the position indicated 
 by the dotted lines is attained. 
 
 EXERCISE 39—Reverse Exercise 38, throwing 
 back the left foot. 
 
238 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 
 
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 EXERCISE 40—Assume position as indicated by 
 solid lines in Fig. 23. Drop the body as indi- 
 cated by the dotted lines, checking the fall when 
 the left knee almost touches the floor. In bring- 
 ing the arms downward allow them to drop side- 
 
 ways, not forward. 
 
 EXERCISE 41—Reverse Exercise 40, bringing 
 the right knee near the floor 
 
MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 239 
 
 Fig. 24 
 EXERCISE 42—Alternately throw the body from 
 one side to the other as indicated in Fig. 24, sud- 
 
 denly checking the movements as previously de- 
 scribed. 
 
240 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES, 
 
 Fig, 25 
 
 EXERCISE 43—Assume position as indicated by 
 the solid lines in Fig. 25. Allow the body to 
 drop forward as shown, suddenly checking the 
 fall. 
 
 EXERCISE 44—Assume position as indicated by 
 the dotted lines in Fig. 25. Suddenly raise the 
 body erect as illustrated. By bracing the feet 
 under some object the movement can be checked 
 suddenly, 
 
MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERGISES. 241 
 
 EXERCISE 45—Rapidly swing the body from 
 side to side as illustrated in Fig. 26, keeping the 
 legs straight and the hands as near the floor as 
 possible. 
 
242 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES 
 
 Fig, 27 
 
 EXERCISE 46—Alternately bring the knees 
 rapidly up as illustrated in Fig. 27, suddenly 
 checking the movement when the knee has 
 reached the highest point, 
 
MOMENTUM INERTIA EXERCISES, 2438 
 
 Fig. 28 
 
 EXERCISE 47—Shrug the shoulders rapidly and 
 forcibly as shown in Fig. 28. 
 
244 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 
 
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 Exercise 48—Lock the hands behind the back 
 as indicated by the solid lines in Pigs 207") Suds 
 denly contract the muscles of the back and throw 
 the shoulders back as indicated by the dotted 
 lines. This exercise is especially valuable in pre- 
 venting round shoulders, 
 
MOMENTUM INERTIA EXERCISES. 245 
 
 Fig. 30 
 
 EXERCISE 49—Balance yourself by holding to a 
 chair, bringing the leg out as indicated by the 
 dotted lines in Fig. 30. Suddenly swing the left 
 leg downward and in front of the right leg as il- 
 lustrated, suddenly checking the movement. Re- 
 verse exercise for the right leg, 
 
246 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 
 
 Fig. 31 
 
 EXERCISE 50—Execute the movement de- 
 scribed in Fig. 31 on the same principle as fxer- 
 cise 49. Also reverse the exercise by kicking 
 backward as well as forward. 
 
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 From Chronic Invalidism to Perpetual Health — Wis- 
 dom of Animals vs. Folly of Men — Instinct the Only In- 
 fallible Guide — Discovery and Use of the Unique ‘“ Natural 
 Bath ’” — True Explanation of Massage — Mistakes of Pre- 
 ceding Systems of Nature-Cure — Hygiene of Clotaing and 
 House Furnishing — Directions for Sleeping on the Ground 
 —Beneficence of Air Baths—HEarth Compresses for Local 
 Ailmients — Man’s Natural Food — Errors of Current Vege- 
 tarianism — Diet and Religion—Physiological Origin of 
 Sin — Tue Superfluity of Cooking — Natural Care of Chil- 
 dren, as to Dress, Feeding, Education, etc. —C nical Rec- 
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 flammatory Rheumatism, Nervous Affections, Deafness, 
 Dyspepsia, Skin, Throat and Contagious Diseases, Bladder 
 Troubles, Pneumonia, Typhoid Fever, Diabetes Spinal 
 Tuberculosis, Sex Derangements. 
 
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Uncocked Foods and How to Use Them 
 
 With Recipes for Wholesome Preparations, Combinations, 
 and Menus, and the Reason Uncooked Food is Best fior the 
 Promotion of Health, Strength and Vitality, by Mr. and 
 Mrs. Eugene Christian, with introduction by W. R. C. 
 Latson, M.D. Illustrated, 12 mo., fine extra cloth binding. 
 
 The first and only complete and comprehensive work 
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 A PRACTICAL WORK 
 
 It not only. shows why food should be taken in its 
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 given as to how to begin the use of uncooked foods, as to 
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 devoted to the questions invofvéd in the use of uncooked 
 foods, it takes a broad viewof the diet question and offers 
 many practical suggestions for the guidance of those who 
 are interested in right living. 
 
 A general idea of the scope of the work may be 
 gathered from the following 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 PART I. 
 Introduction, 
 “Why This Book was Written.” 
 “The Problem of Prohlems.”’ 
 ‘The Functlons of Foods.’’ 
 *-Food Products.’”’ 
 ‘Raw Foods.”’ 
 “aga Remedy.” 
 “Kconomy and Simplicity.’ 
 «The Emancipation of Woman.”’ 
 “The Secretion of Foods.’’ 
 ‘Food Combinations.’’ 
 “Preparation of Foods.’’ 
 «‘Preparation of Uncooked Foods.” 
 “Effect of Cooking Food.”’ 
 “Cooking Milk.” 
 ‘‘Pleeh Foods.”’ 
 “Nuts.” *Fruits.’’ 
 “Cereals.’? Vcgetables.’’ 
 “‘Bread—Fermentation.”’ 
 “Condiments.” 
 ‘How to Eat.’ 
 “‘Mastication.”? 
 “Food Values, with Tablos.’’ 
 ‘Feeding of Children.’’ 
 
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 Jellies. 
 
 Cakes and Puddings, 
 
 Ice Cream and Ices. 
 
 Cheese and Junket, 
 
 Drinks. 
 
 Menus for One Week, 
 
 Banquet Menus, 
 
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wrecked and Rescued 
 
 How Strength and Vigor is Lost, and How 
 Manhood May he Restored by Self-Treatment 
 
 By DR. W. J. HUNTER 
 
 This is a most timely and important work, by one who has 
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 THE WRECK.—Primeval man—His dignity and purity—Causes 
 of the wreck—Ignorance of natural law—Sexual perversions the 
 crowning cause—Touches more than half the race—When sexual 
 passion abates in man, 
 
 AN ANCIENT WRECK.—Sensuality the sin of the ages—The 
 old devil of sensuality —Sensuality in the patriarchal age. 
 
 A MODERN WRECK.—The history of prostitution—The doc- 
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 poisoned by venereal diseases—Thirty theusand men daily infected 
 in the United States—Hi-tory of venereal diseases. 
 
 A YOUTHFUL WRECK—Masturbation—-Puberty; its indica- 
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 THE RESCUE BEGUN.—Dces nature forgive ?—Natural lawis 
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 the rising of the sun é 
 
 THE RESCUE COMPLETED —The medical profession—8e- 
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