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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Sex + Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English + +Author: Henry Stanton + +Release Date: December 2, 2007 [EBook #23680] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEX *** + + + + +Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was +produced from scanned images of public domain material +from the Google Print project.) + + + + + + +</pre> + +<h1>SEX</h1> + +<h2 style="padding-top: 0em">AVOIDED SUBJECTS DISCUSSED IN<br /> +PLAIN ENGLISH</h2> + +<p class="center" style="padding-top: 4em; text-indent: 0em"><i>By</i></p> + +<p class="center" style="font-size: 130%; text-indent: 0em">HENRY STANTON</p> + +<p class="publisher"> +SOCIAL CULTURE PUBLICATIONS<br /> +151 FIFTH AVENUE<span style="padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px">·</span> NEW YORK<br /> +</p> + +<p class="copyright"> +Copyright, 1922<br /> +<span class="smcap">Social Culture Publications</span><br /> +MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A.<br /> +</p> + + +<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></h2> + + +<table summary="table of contents"> +<tr><td> </td><td> </td><td class="pageno"><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> +<tr><td class="chapterno"><a href="#CHAPTER_I">I.</a></td><td><span class="smcap">Sex</span></td><td class="pageno"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="chapterno"><a href="#CHAPTER_II">II.</a></td><td><span class="smcap">The Transition from Cell to Human Being</span></td><td class="pageno"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="chapterno"><a href="#CHAPTER_III">III.</a></td><td><span class="smcap">Sex in Male Childhood</span></td><td class="pageno"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="chapterno"><a href="#CHAPTER_IV">IV.</a></td><td><span class="smcap">Sex in Female Childhood</span></td><td class="pageno"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="chapterno"><a href="#CHAPTER_V">V.</a></td><td><span class="smcap">Sex in the Adolescent Male</span></td><td class="pageno"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="chapterno"><a href="#CHAPTER_VI">VI.</a></td><td><span class="smcap">Sex in the Adolescent Female</span></td><td class="pageno"><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="chapterno"><a href="#CHAPTER_VII">VII.</a></td><td><span class="smcap">Sex in the Marriage Relation (The Husband)</span></td><td class="pageno"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="chapterno"><a href="#CHAPTER_VIII">VIII.</a></td><td><span class="smcap">Sex in the Marriage Relation (The Wife)</span></td><td class="pageno"><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="chapterno"><a href="#CHAPTER_IX">IX.</a></td><td><span class="smcap">Sex Diseases</span></td><td class="pageno"><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="chapterno"><a href="#CHAPTER_X">X.</a></td><td><span class="smcap">Love and Sex</span></td><td class="pageno"><a href="#Page_57">57</a> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></td></tr> +</table> + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></h2> + +<h3>SEX</h3> + + +<p class="newchapter"><span class="firstword"><span class="dropcap">T</span>he</span> happiness of all human beings, men and +women, depends largely on their rational solution +of the sexual problem. Sex and the part it +plays in human life cannot be ignored. In the case +of animals sex plays a simpler and less complex +rôle. It is a purely natural and instinctive function +whose underlying purpose is the perpetuation of +the species. It is not complicated by the many incidental +phenomena which result, in man's case, from +psychologic, economic, moral and religious causes. +Climate, social conditions, individual modes of life +and work, alcohol, wealth and poverty, and other +factors affect sexual activity in human beings.</p> + +<p>Sexual love, which is practically unknown to the +animals, is a special development of the sex urge +in the human soul. The deeper purpose of the sex +function in human beings, likewise, is procreation, +the reproduction of species.</p> + +<p>The average man, woman and child should know +the essential sex facts in order to be able to deal +with the sex problems of life. Of late years there +has been a greater diffusion of such knowledge. To +a large extent, however, children and adolescents +are still taught to look on all that pertains to sex +as something shameful and immodest, something +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>not to be discussed. Sex is an “Avoided Subject.”</p> + +<p>This is fundamentally wrong. Sex affects the +very root of all human life. Its activities are not +obscene, but Nature's own means to certain legitimate +ends. The sex functions, when properly controlled +and led into the proper channels, are a most +essential and legitimate form of physical self-expression. +The veil of secrecy with which they +are so often shrouded tends to create an altogether +false impression regarding them. This discussion +of these “Avoided Subjects,” in “Plain English,” is +intended to give the salient facts regarding sex in a +direct, straightforward manner, bearing in mind the +true purpose of normal sex activities.</p> + +<p>The more we know of the facts of sex, the right +and normal part sex activities play in life, and all +that tends to abuse and degrade them, the better +able we will be to make sex a factor for happiness +in our own lives and that of our descendants. Mankind, +for its own general good, must desire that +reproduction—the real purpose of every sexual +function—occur in such a way as to perpetuate its +own best physical and mental qualities.</p> + + +<h5>THE LAW OF PHYSICAL LIFE</h5> + +<p>It is a universal rule of physical life that every +individual being undergoes a development which we +know as its individual life and which, so far as its +physical substance is concerned, ends with death. +Death is the destruction of the greater part of this +individual organism which, when death ensues, +once more becomes lifeless matter. Only small +portions of this matter, the germ cells, continue<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> +to live under certain conditions which nature has +fixed.</p> + +<p>The germ cell—as has been established by the +microscope—is the tiny cell which in the lowest +living organisms as well as in man himself, forms +the unit of physical development. Yet even this +tiny cell is already a highly organized and perfected +thing. It is composed of the most widely differing +elements which, taken together, form the so-called +protoplasm or cellular substance. And for all life +established in nature the cell remains the constant +and unchanging form element. It comprises the +cell-protoplasm and a nucleus imbedded in it whose +substance is known as the nucleoplasm. The nucleus +is the more important of the two and, so to +say, governs the life of the cell-protoplasm.</p> + +<p>The lower one-celled organisms in nature increase +by division, just as do the individual cells of a more +highly organized, many-celled order of living beings. +And in all cases, though death or destruction of the +cells is synonymous with the death or destruction +of the living organism, the latter in most cases +already has recreated itself by reproduction.</p> + +<p>We will not go into the very complicated details +of the actual process of the growth and division of +the protoplasmic cells. It is enough to say that in +the case of living creatures provided with more +complicated organisms, such as the higher plants, +animals and man, the little cell units divide and +grow as they do in the case of the lower organisms. +The fact is one which shows the intimate inner +relationship of all living beings.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span></p> + + +<h5>THE LADDER OF ORGANIC ASCENT</h5> + +<p>As we mount the ascending ladder of plant and +animal life the unit-cell of the lower organisms is +replaced by a great number of individual cells, +which have grown together to form a completed +whole. In this complete whole the cells, in accordance +with the specific purpose for which they are +intended, all have a different form and a different +chemical composition. Thus it is that in the case +of the plants leaves, flowers, buds, bark, branches +and stems are formed, and in that of animals skin, +intestines, glands, blood, muscles, nerves, brain and +the organs of sense. In spite of the complicated +nature of numerous organisms we find that many of +them still possess the power of reproducing themselves +by division or a process of “budding.” In the +case of certain plants and animals, cell-groups grow +together into a so-called “bud,” which later detaches +itself from the parent body and forms a new +individual living organism, as in the case of the +polyps or the tubers in plant life.</p> + +<p>A tree, for instance, may be grown from a graft +which has been cut off and planted in the ground. +And ants and bees which have not been fecundated +are quite capable of laying eggs out of which develop +perfect, well-formed descendants. This last +process is called parthenogenesis. It is a process, +however, which if carried on through several generations, +ends in deterioration and degeneracy. In the +case of the higher animals, vertebrates and man, +such reproduction is an impossibility.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> + +<p>These higher types of animal life have been provided +by nature with special organs of reproduction +and reproductive glands whose secretions, +when they are projected from the body under certain +conditions, reproduce themselves, and increase +and develop in such wise that the living organism +from which they proceed is reproduced in practically +its identical form. Thus it perpetuates the +original type. Philosophically it may be said that +these cells directly continue the life of the parents, +so that death in reality only destroys a part of the +individual. Every individual lives again in his +offspring.</p> + + +<h5>THE TRUE MISSION OF SEX</h5> + +<p>This rebirth of the individual in his descendants +represents the true mission of sex where the human +being is concerned. And reproduction, the perpetuation +of the species, underlies all rightful and +normal sex functions and activities. The actual +physical process of reproduction, the details which +initiate reproduction in the case of the human being, +it seems unnecessary here to describe. In the animal +world, into which the moral equation does not +really enter, the facts of conjugation represent a +simple and natural working-out of functional bodily +laws, usually with a seasonal determination. But +where man is concerned these facts are so largely +made to serve the purposes of pruriency, so exploited +to inflame the imagination in an undesirable +and directly harmful way that they can be approached +only with the utmost caution.</p> + +<p>The intimate fact knowledge necessary in this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> +connection is of a peculiarly personal and sacred +nature, and represents information which is better +communicated by the spoken than by the printed +word. The wise father and mother are those naturally +indicated to convey this information to their +sons and daughters by word of mouth. By analogy, +by fuller development and description of the reproductive +processes of plant and animal life on which +we have touched, the matter of human procreation +may be approached. Parents should stress the point, +when trying to present this subject to the youthful +mind, that man's special functions are only a detail—albeit +a most important one—in nature's vast +plan for the propagation of life on earth. This will +have the advantage of correcting a trend on the +part of the imaginative boy or girl to lay too much +stress on the part humanity plays in this great general +reproductive scheme. It will lay weight on the +fact that the functional workings of reproduction +are not, primarily, a source of pleasure, but that—when +safeguarded by the institution of matrimony, +on which civilized social life is based—they stand +for the observance of solemn duties and obligations, +duties to church and state, and obligations to posterity. +Hence, parents, in talking to their children +about these matters should do so in a sober and instructive +fashion. The attention of a mother, perhaps, +need not be called to this. But fathers may +be inclined, in many cases, to inform their sons +without insisting that the information they give +them is, in the final analysis, intended to be applied +to lofty constructive purposes. They may, in their<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> +desire to speak <i>practically</i>, forget the moral values +which should underlie this intimate information. +Never should the spirit of levity intrude itself in +these intimate personal sex colloquies. Restraint +and decency should always mark them.</p> + +<p>In making clear to the mind of youth the fact +data which initiates and governs reproduction in +animal and in human life, the ideal to be cultivated +is continence, the refraining from all experimentation +undertaken in a spirit of curiosity, until such +time as a well-placed affection, sanctioned by the +divine blessing, will justify a sane and normal exploitation +of physical needs and urges in the matrimonial +state. To this end hard bodily and mental +work should be encouraged in the youth of both +sexes. “Satan finds work for idle hands to do,” has +special application in this connection, and a chaste +and continent youth is usually the forerunner of a +happy and contented marriage. And incidentally, +a happy marriage is the best guarantee that reproduction, +the carrying on of the species, will be +morally and physically a success. Here, too, the +fact should be strongly stressed that prostitution +cannot be justified on any moral grounds. It represents +a deliberate ignoring of the rightful function +of sex, and the perversion of the sane and natural +laws of reproduction. It is in marriage, in the +sane and normal activities of that unit of our whole +social system—the family—that reproduction develops +nature's basic principle of perpetuation in +the highest and worthiest manner, in obedience to +laws humane and divine.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></h2> + +<h3>THE TRANSITION FROM CELL TO +HUMAN BEING</h3> + + +<p class="newchapter"><span class="firstword"><span class="dropcap">I</span>n</span> the functional processes alluded to in the preceding +chapter, the male germ-cell and the female +germ-cell unite in a practically equal division of +substance. We say “practically” because the maternal +and the paternal influences are not equally +divided in the offspring. One or the other usually +predominates. But, as a general rule, it may be +said that in the development of the embryonal life +the process of cell division proceeds in such a way +that every germ of the child's future organism represents +approximately one-half maternal and one-half +paternal substance and energy.</p> + +<p>In this process lies the true secret of heredity. +The inherited energies retain their full measure +of power, and all their original quality in the +growing and dividing chromosomes (the chromosome +is one of the segments into which the +chromoplasmic filaments of a cell-nucleus break +up just before indirect division). On the other +hand, the egg-substance of the female germ-cell, +which is assimilated by the chromosomes, and which +is turned into <i>their</i> substance by the process of +organic chemistry, loses its specific plastic vital +energy completely. It is in the same way that food<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span> +eaten by the adult has absolutely no effect on his +qualitative organic structure. We may eat ever +so many beef-steaks without acquiring any of the +characteristics of an ox. And the germ-cell may devour +any amount of egg-protoplasma without losing +its original paternal energy. As a rule a child +inherits as many qualities from its mother as from +its father.</p> + + +<h5>DETERMINATION OF SEX</h5> + +<p>Sex is determined after conception has taken +place. At an early stage of the embryo certain +cells are set apart. These, later, form the sex +glands. Modern research claims to have discovered +the secret of absolutely determining sex in the +human embryo, but even if these claims are valid +they have not as yet met with any general application.</p> + + +<h5>EARLY DEVELOPMENT</h5> + +<p>Some twelve days after conception, the female +ovule or egg, which has been impregnated by the +male spermatazoön, escapes from the ovary where +it was impregnated, and entering a tube (Fallopian) +gradually descends by means of it into the cavity +of the womb or uterus. Here the little germ begins +to mature in order to develop into an exact counterpart +of its parents. In the human being the womb +has only a single cavity, and usually develops but +a single embryo.</p> + + +<h5>TWINS</h5> + +<p>Sometimes two ovules are matured at the same +time. If fecundated, two embryos instead of one +will develop, producing twins. Triplets and quadruplets,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span> +the results of the maturing of three or four +ovules at the same time, occur more rarely. As +many as five children have been born alive at a +single birth, but have seldom lived for more than +a few minutes.</p> + + +<h5>GESTATION</h5> + +<p>The development of the ovule in the womb is +known as gestation or pregnancy. The process is one +of continued cell division and growth, and while it +goes on the ovule sticks to the inner wall of the +womb. There it is soon enveloped by a mucous +membrane, which grows around it and incloses it.</p> + + +<h5>THE EMBRYO</h5> + +<p>The <i>Primitive Trace</i>, a delicate straight line appearing +on the surface of the growing layer of cells +is the base of the embryonic spinal column. Around +this the whole embryo develops in an intricate +process of cell division and duplication. One end +of the Primitive Trace becomes the head, the other +the tail, for every human being has a tail at this +stage of his existence. The neck is marked by a +slight depression; the body by a swollen center. +Soon little buds or “pads” appear in the proper +positions. These represent arms and legs, whose +ends, finally, split up into fingers and toes. The +embryonic human being has been steadily increasing +in size, meanwhile. By the fifth week the heart +and lungs are present in a rudimentary form, and +ears and face are distinctly outlined. During the +seventh week the kidneys are formed, and a little +later the genital organs. At two months, though<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +sex is not determined as yet, eyes and nose are +visible, the mouth is gaping, and the skin can be +distinguished. At ten weeks the sexual organs +form more definitely, and in the third month sex +can be definitely determined.</p> + + +<h5>THE FOETUS</h5> + +<p>At the end of its fourth month the embryo—now +four or five inches long and weighing about an +ounce—is promoted. It receives the name of foetus. +Hairs appear on the scalp, the eyes are provided +with lids, the tongue appears far back in the mouth. +The movements of the foetus are plainly felt by +the mother. If born at this time it lives but a few +minutes. It continues to gain rapidly in weight. By +the sixth month the nails are solid, the liver large +and red, and there is fluid in the gall bladder. The +seventh month finds the foetus from twelve and a +half to fourteen inches long, and weighing about +fifty-five ounces. It is now well proportioned, the +bones of the cranium, formerly flat, are arched. All +its parts are well defined, and it can live if born. +By the end of the eighth month the foetus has +thickened out. Its skin is red and covered by a delicate +down; the lower jaw has grown to the same +length as the upper one. The convolutions of the +brain structure also appear during this month.</p> + + +<h5>PLACENTA AND UMBILICAL CORD</h5> + +<p>During gestation the unborn infant has been supplied +with air and nourishment by the mother. An +organ called the <i>Placenta</i>, a spongy growth of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +blood vessels, develops on the inner point of the +womb. To this organ the growing foetus is moored +by a species of cable, the <i>Umbilical Cord</i>. This +cord, also made up mainly of blood vessels, carries +the blood of the foetus to and from the <i>Placenta</i>, +absorbing it through the thin walls which separate it +from the mother's blood. Only through her blood +can the mother influence the child, since the Umbilical +Cord contains no nerves. The Umbilical +Cord, attached to the body of the child at the navel, +is cut at birth, and with the Placenta is expelled +from the womb soon after the child has been born. +Together with the Placenta it forms a shapeless +mass, familiarly known as the “afterbirth,” and +when it is retained instead of being expelled is apt +to cause serious trouble.</p> + + +<h5>CHILDBIRTH OR PARTURITION</h5> + +<p>At nine month's time the foetus is violently thrust +from that laboratory of nature in which it has +formed. It is born, and comes into the world as a +child. Considering the ordinary size of the generative +passages, the expelling of the foetus from +the womb would seem impossible. But Nature, during +those months in which she enlarged the womb +to hold its gradually increasing contents, has also increased +the generative passages in size. She has +made them soft and distensible, so that an apparent +physical impossibility could take place, though it is +often accompanied by intense suffering. Modern +medical science has made childbirth easier, but the +act of childbirth is usually accompanied by more<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +or less suffering. Excessive pain, however, is often +the result of causes which proper treatment can remove +before and at the time of confinement.</p> + + +<h5>TWILIGHT SLEEP</h5> + +<p>The so-called “Twilight Sleep,” a modern development, +by which the pangs of childbirth are +obviated by the administration of drugs or by hypnotic +suggestion, has its opponents and defenders. +The advantage of a painless childbirth, upon which +the mother can look back as on a dream, is evident. +The “Twilight Sleep” process has been used with +the happiest results both for parent and child. +Opponents of this system declare that the use of +powerful drugs may injure the child. A method +commended is the administration of a mixture of +laughing gas and oxygen, which relieves the mother +and does not affect the child.</p> + + +<h5>THE NEW-BORN INFANT</h5> + +<p>The average weight of the new-born child is +about seven and a half pounds. It is insensitive +to pain for the first few days, and seems deaf (since +its middle ears are filled with a thick mucus) for +the first two weeks. During the first few days, too, +it does not seem able to see. The first month of +its existence is purely automatic. Evidences of +dawning intelligence appear in the second month +and at four months it will recognize mother or +nurse. Muscularly it is poorly developed. Not +until two months old is it able to hold up its head, +and not until three months does voluntary muscular<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> +movement put in an appearance. The new-born's +first self-conscious act is to draw breath. Deprived +of its usual means of supply it must breathe or +suffocate. Its next is to suck milk, lest it starve.</p> + + +<h5>HEREDITY</h5> + +<p>We often find children who offer a striking resemblance +to a paternal grandfather, a maternal +aunt or a maternal great-grandmother. This is +known as avatism. There are many curious variations +with regard to the inheritance of ancestral +traits. Some children show a remarkable resemblance +to their fathers in childhood, others to their +mothers. And many qualities of certain individual +ancestors appear quite suddenly late in life. Everything +may be inherited, from the most delicate +shadings of the disposition, the intelligence and the +will power, to the least details of hair, nails and +bone structure, etc. And the combination of the +qualities of one's ancestors in heredity is so manifold +and so unequal that it is extremely difficult to +arrive at fixed conclusions regarding it. Hereditary +traits and tendencies are developed out of the +energies of the original conjugated germ-cells +throughout life, up to the very day of death. Even +aged men often show peculiarities in the evening +of their life which may be clearly recognized as +inherited, and duplicating others shown by their +forbears at the same period of life.</p> + +<p>As has already been mentioned every individual +inherits, generally speaking, as much from his paternal +as from his maternal progenitors. This in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> +spite of the fact that the tiny paternal germ-cell is +the only medium of transmission of the paternal +qualities, while the mother furnishes the much +larger egg-cell, and feeds him throughout the embryonic +period.</p> + + +<h5>THE ENGRAM</h5> + +<p>An interesting theory maintains that the external +impressions made upon an organism which +reacts to them and receives them, might be called +<i>engrams</i> or “inscriptions.” Thus the impression of +some object we have seen or touched (let us say +we have seen a lion) may remain engraved on our +mind as an impression. Hence every memory picture +is one of engrams, whether the impression is +a conscious one or an unconscious one. According +to this same theory the reawakening of an older +impression is an <i>ecphory</i>. Some new stimulation +may thus ecphorate an old engram. Now the entire +embryonal development of the human child is in +reality no more than a continuous process of ecphoration +of old engrams, one after another. And the +entire complex of our living human organism is +made up entirely of these energy-complexes engraved +on our consciousness or subconsciousness. The sum +total of all these engrams, in a living human being, +according to the theory advanced, is given the name +of <i>mnema</i>. That which the child receives in the +way of energies contained in the germ-cells from +its ancestors is his hereditary <i>mnema</i>. And that +which he acquires in the course of his own individual +life is his acquired or individual <i>mnema</i>.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></h2> + +<h3>SEX IN MALE CHILDHOOD<br /> + +<small>(FROM 14 TO 16)</small></h3> + + +<p class="newchapter"><span class="firstword"><span class="dropcap">D</span>uring</span> the first years of child life all those +laws of practical hygiene which make for good +health should be carefully observed. Every organ +of the body should be carefully protected, even at +this early age. The genital organs, especially, +should not be rubbed or handled under any pretext, +beyond what is absolutely necessary for cleanliness. +The organs of generation, which we are apt +to treat as nonexistent in children, just because they +are children, claim just as much watchful care as +any others.</p> + + +<h5>SEX PRECAUTIONS IN INFANCY</h5> + +<p>Even in infancy, the diaper should fit easily about +the organs which it covers, so as not to give rise +to undue friction or heating of the parts. And for +the same reason it should always be changed immediately +after urination or a movement of the +bowels. No material which prevents the escape of +perspiration, urine or fecal matter should be employed +for a diaper. The use of a chair-commode +as early as the end of the first year is highly to be +commended, as being more comfortable for the +sex organs and healthier for the child. It favors,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> +in particular, a more perfect development of limbs +and hip joints.</p> + + +<h5>EARLY SEX IMPRESSIONS</h5> + +<p>Sex impressions and reactions are apt to develop +at an early age, especially in the case of boys. If +the child's physical health is normal, however, they +should not affect his mind or body. The growing +boy should be encouraged to take his sex questions +and sex problems to his parents (in his case preferably +the father) for explanation. Thus they may +be made clear to him naturally and logically. He +should not be told what he soon discovers is not +true: that babies are “dug up with a silver spade,” +or make their appearances in the family thanks to +the kind offices of storks or angels. Instead, by +analogy with the reproductive processes of all +nature, the true facts of sex may be explained to +him in a soothing and normal way.</p> + + +<h5>EVIL COMMUNICATIONS</h5> + +<p>Too often, the growing boy receives his first lessons +regarding sex from ignorant and vicious associates. +Curiosity is one of the greatest natural +factors in the child's proper development, if rightly +directed. When wrongly led, however, it may have +the worst consequences. Even before puberty occurs, +a boy's attention may be quite naturally drawn +to his own sex organs.</p> + + +<h5>NATURAL CAUSES OF INFANT SEXUAL PRECOCITY</h5> + +<p>Sexual precocity in boys may be natural or it may +be artificially called forth. Among natural causes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> +which develop sex precocity is promiscuous playing +with other boys and girls for hours without supervision. +It may also be produced by playful repose +on the stomach, sliding down banisters, going too +long without urinating, by constipation or straining +at stool, irritant cutaneous affections, and rectal +worms. Sliding down banisters, for instance, produces +a titillation. The act may be repeated until +inveterate masturbation results, even at an early age. +Needless laving, handling and rubbing of the private +parts is another natural incitement to sexual +precocity.</p> + + +<h5>PRIAPISM</h5> + +<p><i>Priapism</i> is a disease which boys often develop. +It may be either a result or a cause of sexual precocity, +and may come from undue handling of the +genital parts or from a morbid state of health. It +takes the form of paroxysms, more or less frequent, +and of violent and often painful erection, +calling for a physician's attention. If the result +of a functional disorder, and not arrested, it is in +danger of giving rise to masturbation. This morbid +condition sometimes seriously impairs the health.</p> + + +<h5>MASTURBATION</h5> + +<p><i>Masturbation</i>, the habit of self-abuse, often +formed before puberty, is an artificial development +of sexual precocity. Most boys, from the age of +nine to fourteen, interest themselves in sex questions +and matters, but these are usually presented to +them in a lewd and improper manner, by improperly +informed companions. Dwelling upon these thoughts<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +the boy is led to play with his sex organs in secret +and masturbation results. A secret vice of the most +dangerous kind, masturbation or self-pollution is +often taught by older boys and takes place, to quote +an authority “in many of our colleges, boarding, +public and private schools,” and is also indulged +in by companions beneath the home roof. If it +becomes habitual, generally impaired health, and +often epilepsy, and total moral and physical degradation +results. Stains on the nightshirt or sheet +occurring before puberty are absolute evidence of +the vice in boys.</p> + + +<h5>WHAT FATHERS SHOULD DO FOR THEIR BOYS</h5> + +<p>Make sex facts clear to your boy as interesting, +matter-of-fact developments of general natural +laws. Ungratified or improperly gratified curiosity +is what leads to a young boy's overemphasizing the +facts of sex as they apply to him. Make him your +confidant. Teach him to think cleanly and to act +cleanly, neither to ignore nor to exalt the sexual. +Especially, when he himself is directly disturbed +sexually, either in a mental or physical way, let +him feel that he can apply to you naturally for +relief and explanation. If this be done, your boy's +sex development before puberty will be natural and +normal, and when the more serious and difficult +problems of adolescence present themselves, he +will be prepared to handle them on the basis of +right thinking and right living. Natural and healthy +sport in the open air, and the avoidance of foul +language and indecency should be stressed. The<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> +use of alcohol, coffee and tea by children tends to +weaken their sexual organs. Every boy should +know that chastity means continence. He should +know that lascivious thoughts lead to lascivious +actions, and that these are a drain on his system +which may spoil his life in later years.</p> + +<p>In the education of his children the average man +is only too apt to repeat the same mistake of unconsciously +crediting the child with the possession +of his own feelings and his own outlook, that is the +feelings and outlook of the adult. In general, +things which may make an impression in a sex +way on the adult are a matter of indifference to +the sexually unripe boy. Hence it is quite possible +for a father to discuss sex matters with his young +son and inform him constructively, without in any +undue way rousing his sex curiosity or awakening +desire. Such talks, of course, should be in accordance +with the principles already laid down in +the section on “Reproduction.”</p> + +<p>If a boy is accustomed and taught to regard sex +conditions and matters in a proper and innocent +manner, as something perfectly natural, improper +curiosity and eroticism are far less likely to be +aroused than when this is not the case. For the +whole subject will have lost the dangerous attraction +of novelty. On the other hand, we find boys +who have been brought up with great prudery and +in complete ignorance of sex matters (save that +which may come to them from impure sources) +greatly excited and ashamed by the first appearance +of the indications of puberty. Secrecy is the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +enemy of a clean, normal conception on the part +of the child as to the right place sex and the sex +function play in life and in the world. It stands +to reason, of course, that every least detail of the +sex question cannot be intelligently made clear to a +little child. But his questions should all be answered, +honestly, and with due regard for his age and his +capacity to understand what is explained to him.</p> + +<p>One very great advantage of an early paternal +explanation of sex matters to the boy is its beneficial +effect on the mind and the nerves. Many boys brood +or grow melancholy when confronted with sex riddles +and problems for which they are unable to find +a solution; and as the result of totally erroneous +ideas they may have formed with regard to sex +matters. At the same time too much attention should +not be paid the discussion of sex questions between +father and son. A father should, so far as possible, +endeavor to develop other interests and preoccupations +in his boy, and turn his mind as much as may +be <i>away</i> from matters sexual, until the age when +the youth is ripe for marriage is reached.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></h2> + +<h3>SEX IN FEMALE CHILDHOOD<br /> + +<small>(FROM 12 TO 14)</small></h3> + + +<p class="newchapter"><span class="firstword"><span class="dropcap">W</span>hat</span> has been said in general about practical +observance of the laws of sex hygiene in the +preceding chapter for boys, applies to girls as well. +If anything the sex precautions taken in infancy +should be even more closely followed, as girls are +by nature less robust than boys. If children could +be raised in entire accordance with natural laws, +the sexual instinct of girls as well as boys would +probably remain dormant during the period stretching +from infancy to puberty. As in the case of the +boy, so in that of the girl, any manifestation of +sexual precocity should be investigated, to see +whether it be due to natural or artificial causes. In +either case the proper remedies should be applied.</p> + + +<h5>SEX PRECOCITY IN GIRLS</h5> + +<p>There are cases of extraordinary sex precocity +in girls. One case reported in the United States +was that of a female child who at birth possessed +all the characteristics usually developed at puberty. +In this case the natural periodical changes began at +birth! Fortunately, this is a case more or less unique. +In little girls and boys undue sexual handling or<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> +titillating of their genital organs tends to quiet +them, so nurses (let us hope in ignorance of the +consequences!) often resort to it. Sending children +to bed very early, to “get rid of them,” or confining +them in a room by themselves, tends to encourage +the development of vicious habits. A single bed, +both in the school and in the home, is indispensable +to purity of morals and personal cleanliness. It +tends to restrain too early development of the +sexual instinct both in small girls and small boys.</p> + + +<h5>SEXUAL SELF-ABUSE IN GIRLS</h5> + +<p>Small girls, like small boys, display an intelligent +curiosity as regards the phenomena of sex at an +early age. And what has already been said regarding +its improper gratification in the preceding +chapter, so far as boys are concerned, applies with +equal force to them. In their case, however, the +mother is a girl's natural confidant and friend. +Self-abuse in one or another form is as common +in the case of the girl as in that of the boy. As a +rule, girls who live an outdoor life, and work with +their muscles more than their mind, do not develop +undue precocious sexual curiosities or desires. At +least they do not do so to the same extent as those +more nervously and susceptibly constituted. The +less delicate and sensitive children of the country +tend less to these habits than their more sensitively +organized city brothers and sisters. Girls who have +formed vicious habits are apt to indulge in the practice +of self-abuse at night when going to bed. If +there is cause for suspicion, the bedclothes should<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> +be quickly and suddenly thrown off under some +pretense. Self-abuse usually has a marked effect on +the genital organs of girls. The inner organs become +unnaturally enlarged and distended, and +<i>leucorrhea</i>, catarrh of the vagina, attended by a +discharge of greenish-white mucus, often develops.</p> + + +<h5>RESULTS OF SELF-ABUSE IN GIRLS</h5> + +<p>Local diseases, due to this cause, result in girls +as well as boys. Temporary congestions become +permanent, and develop into permanent irritations +and disorders. Leucorrhea has already been mentioned. +Contact with the acrid, irritating internal +secretions also causes <i>soreness of the fingers at +the root of the nails</i>, and warts. Congestion and +other diseases are other ultimate results of the habit; +and these congestions to which it gives rise unduly +hasten the advent of puberty. Any <i>decided enlargement +of the labia and clitoris in a young girl</i> may be +taken as a positive evidence of the existence of the +habit of self-abuse. Sterility, and atrophy of the +breasts—their deficient development—when the vice +is begun before puberty, is another result.</p> + + +<h5>PRURITIS AND FEMININE NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS</h5> + +<p><i>Pruritis</i> (itching genitals), though not necessarily +caused by self-abuse, may be one of its consequences. +Continued congestion causes the genital parts +to itch terribly. This itching increases until the +desire to manipulate the genitals becomes irresistible. +It will then be indulged in even in the presence +of strangers, though the girl in question at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +other times may be exceptionally modest. Girls +addicted to the vice also suffer from nocturnal +emissions. The general effect of self-abuse is much +the same in the case of a girl as in that of a boy, +for leucorrhea is injurious in somewhat the same +fashion as seminal loss. In the case of girls the +greatest injury, however, is due to the nervous exhaustion +which succeeds the unnatural excitement.</p> + + +<h5>WHAT MOTHERS SHOULD DO FOR THEIR GIRLS</h5> + +<p>A healthy girl should be happy and comfortable +in all respects. She will not be so, especially with +regard to her sex problems, unless she can appeal +to her mother as a friend and confidant. While +keeping your girl's mind pure and healthy by precept +and example, do not forget that the best way +to protect her against evil influences and communications +is to tell her the exact truth about sex facts, +as they apply to her, just as the father should his +boy. Keep your girl fully occupied and do not leave +her sex education to the evil winds of chance.</p> + +<p>Let sex knowledge take its place as a proper, +necessary part of her general education. If your +daughter feels she can at all times talk freely to +you all will be well. Gratify her natural sex curiosity +in a natural way. See that <i>immediate</i> medical +attention is given inflammations, excoriations, itchings +and swellings of her genital organs. Such conditions +will lead her to rub and scratch these parts—never +to be touched—for relief. If, as a result of +the sensations experienced, masturbation results, +<i>yours is the sin</i>.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span></h2> + +<h3>SEX IN THE ADOLESCENT MALE<br /> + +<small>(FROM PUBERTY TO MATURITY)</small></h3> + + +<p class="newchapter"><span class="firstword"><span class="dropcap">A</span>dolescence</span> is the period when the boy is +lost in the man. It is the time of life embraced +between the ages of fourteen or sixteen and the age +of twenty-five. Every boy, if properly trained, +should reach this period in a state of good general +health and spirits. Hitherto he has been led and +guided. Now he must develop mental strength and +will power himself to choose the good and refuse +the evil in the sexual problems confronting him.</p> + + +<h5>PUBERTY</h5> + +<p>According to climate puberty, the age when the +human male becomes sexually perfect, varies from +ten to fifteen years. In the United States puberty in +the male usually occurs at the age of fourteen and a +half years. In tropical climates it occurs at nine or +ten, and in cold countries, such as Norway and +Siberia, it may not take place until eighteen or +nineteen. Vigorous physical exercise tends to delay +puberty, anything exciting the emotions tends to +hasten it. Stimulating foods, pepper, vinegar, mustard, +spices, tea and coffee, excess meat nutriment +hasten puberty. A cool, unstimulating vegetable +and farinaceous diet may delay the development of +the sexual system several months or a year.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> + + +<h5>THE SIGNS AND CHANGES OF PUBERTY</h5> + +<p>In the boy the signs of puberty are the growth +of hair on the skin covering the pubes and in the +armpits. Chest and arms broaden, the frame grows +more angular, the masculine proportions more pronounced. +The vocal cords grow longer and lower +the pitch of the voice. Hair grows on chin, upper +lip, cheeks, and often on the body surface.</p> + + +<h5>THE SEXUAL MORAL LAW</h5> + +<p>The sexual moral law is the same for both sexes, +and equally binding. It may be summed up as +follows: “Your sexual urges, instincts and desires +should never consciously injure an individual human +being or mankind in general. They should be exercised +to further the value and happiness of both.”</p> + + +<h5>THE MALE ADOLESCENT AND CONTINENCE</h5> + +<p>The perfect carrying out of this general moral +law implies continence on the part of the male +adolescent until marriage. Continence is positive +restraint under all circumstances. Strict continence +is neither injurious to health, nor does it produce +impotence. While self-denial is difficult, since the +promptings of nature often seem imperious, it is not +impossible. It is certain that no youth will suffer, +physically, by remaining sexually pure. The demands +which occur during adolescence are mainly +abnormal, due to the excitements of an overstimulating +diet, pornographic literature and art, and the +temptations of impure association.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p> + + +<h5>WHY YOUNG MEN GO WRONG</h5> + +<p>Foul thoughts, once they enter the mind, corrode +it. The sensual glance, the bawdy laugh, the ribald +jest, the smutty story, the obscene song may be met +with on street corner, in the car, train, hotel lobby, +lecture hall and workshop. Mental unchastity ends +in physical unchastity. The habit common to most +adolescent boys and young men of relating smutty +stories, repeating foul jokes and making indecent +allusions destroys respect for virtue. In addition +there are such direct physical causes of undue adolescent +sexual excitement as constipation and alcoholism, +and such mental ones as nervous irritability.</p> + +<p>To the constant discussion and speculation regarding +sex and its mysteries by the adolescent +young male, must be added the artificial idea that +idle prattling on the subject is a sign of “manhood.” +Thus many young men whose natural trend is in the +direction of decency and right sexual living, “step +out” or “go to see the girls,” as the phrase is, because +they think that otherwise “they are not real +men.” More subtle in its evil effect, yet somewhat +less dangerous physically, perhaps, than the professional +prostitute is the lure of the “hidden” prostitute, +who carefully conceals her derelictions, and +publicly wraps herself in a mantle of virtue.</p> + + +<h5>PROSTITUTION</h5> + +<p>The training of the average male mind in impure +language and thought during boyhood and adolescence, +the cultivation of his animal at the expense<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> +of the moral nature, often leads the adolescent to +seek satisfaction by frequenting the prostitute.</p> + +<p><i>Prostitution</i>, known as the “social evil,” is promiscuous +unchastity for gain. It has existed in all +civilized countries from earliest times. Prostitution +abuses the instinct for reproduction, the basic +element of sex, to offer certain women a livelihood +which they prefer to other means. Love of excitement, +inherited criminal propensities, indolence and +abnormal sex appetite are first causes of prostitution. +Difficulty in finding work, laborious and +ill-paid work, harsh treatment of girls at home, +indecent living among the poor, contact with +demoralizing companions, loose literature and +amusements are secondary causes. They all contribute +to debauch male and female youth and lead it to +form dangerous habits of vicious sensual indulgence.</p> + +<p>Prostitution seems inseparable from human society +in large communities. The fact is acknowledged +in the name given it, “the necessary evil.” Regulation +and medical control only arrest in a degree the +spread of venereal diseases to which prostitution +gives rise. The elementary laws on which prostitution +rests seems to be stronger than the artificial +codes imposed by moral teaching. It is an evil +which must be combatted <i>individually</i>. Men are +principally responsible, in one way or another, for +the existence of the social evil. In the case of the +young man, abstention is the only cure for the +probable results of indulging his animal passions by +recourse to the prostitute.</p> + +<p>Prostitution, both public and private is the most<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> +dangerous menace to society at large. It is the curse +of individual young manhood because of the venereal +diseases it spreads. One visit to a house of +prostitution may ruin a young man's health and life, +and millions of human beings die annually from the +effects of poison contracted in these houses. “Wild +oats” sown in company with the prostitute usually +bear fruit in the shape of the most loathsome and +destructive sex disorders.</p> + +<p>The development of self-control, the avoidance of +impure thoughts and associations, the cultivation +of the higher moral nature instead of the lower +animal one, and, finally, <i>marriage</i>, should prevent +the young man from falling into prostitution. All +the state and medical regulation in the world will +not protect him from the venereal diseases he is so +apt to acquire by such indulgence.</p> + + +<h5>FREE LOVE</h5> + +<p>Free love is the doctrine of <i>unrestrained choice, +without binding ties</i>, in sexual relations. For altogether +different reasons, however, it is quite as +objectionable as prostitution for the young man. It +may offer better hygienic guarantees. But it is a +sexual partnership which is opposed to the fundamental +institution of <i>marriage</i>, on which society in +general is based throughout the world. And, aside +from the fact that it is a promiscuous relationship +not sanctioned by law or society, it is seldom practically +successful. It cannot admit of true love without +bitter jealousies.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span></h2> + +<h3>SEX IN THE ADOLESCENT FEMALE<br /> + +<small>(FROM PUBERTY TO MATURITY)</small></h3> + + +<p class="newchapter"><span class="firstword"><span class="dropcap">A</span>dolescence</span> in the girl is the period when +she develops into a woman. It is that stage +in female life embraced between the ages of twelve +or fourteen and twenty-one years. Elasticity of +body, a clear complexion, and a happy control of +her feelings should mark the young girl at this time, +if she has been so fortunate as to escape the dangers +and baneful influences of childhood and infancy. +Her numerous bodily functions should be +well performed. Thus constituted she should be in +a condition to take up her coming struggle with the +world, and the sex problem it will present.</p> + + +<h5>PUBERTY</h5> + +<p>It has been noticed that in the case of girls, +puberty usually occurs earlier in brunettes than in +blondes. In general, it makes its appearance earlier +in those of a nervous or bilio-nervous temperament +than in those whose temperament is phlegmatic or +lymphatic. In the United States fourteen and a +half years is the usual age of puberty in girls. In +tropical lands, however, it is not uncommon for a +girl to be a mother at twelve. Country girls (and +boys) usually mature several months or a year later +than those living in cities. Too early a puberty in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span> +girls may well arouse concern. It usually indicates +some inherent constitutional weakness. Premature +puberty is often associated with premature decay.</p> + + +<h5>THE SIGNS AND CHANGES OF PUBERTY</h5> + +<p>In the girl the sign of puberty is the growth of +hair about the pubes, private organs and armpits. +Her whole frame remains more slender than in the +male. Muscles and joints are less prominent, limbs +more rounded and tapering. Internal and external +organs undergo rapid enlargement, locally. The +<i>mammæ</i> (the breasts) enlarge, the ovaries dilate, +and a periodical uteral discharge (menstruation) is +established.</p> + + +<h5>MENSTRUATION</h5> + +<p>No young girl should feel alarmed if, owing +to the negligence of her parents or guardians to prepare +her, she is surprised by this first flow from +the genital organs. Puberty is the proper time +for the appearance of menstruation. This is the +periodical development and discharge of an ovule +(one or more) by the female, accompanied by the +discharge of a fluid, known as menses or catamenia. +Menstruation, in general good health, should occur +about every twenty-eight days, or once in four +weeks. This rule, however, is subject to great +variation. Menstruation continues from puberty to +about the forty-fifth year, which usually marks the +<i>menopause</i>, or “change of life.” When it disappears +a woman is no longer capable of bearing children. +Her period of fertility has passed. In rare cases +menstruation has stopped at 35, or lasted till 60.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span></p> + + +<h5>HINTS FOR OBSERVANCE DURING MENSTRUATION</h5> + +<p>When the period arrives a girl or woman has a +feeling of discomfort and lassitude, there is a sense +of weight, and a disclination for society. Menstruation +should not, however, be regarded as a nuisance; +a girl's friends respect her most when she is “unwell.” +She should keep more than usually quiet +while the flow continues, which it will do for a few +days. Also, she should avoid all unnecessary fatigue, +exposure to wet or to extremes of temperature. +Some girls are guilty of the crime of trying +to arrest the menstruation flow, and resorting to +methods of stopping it. Why? In order to attend +a dance or pleasure excursion! Lives have been lost +by thus suppressing the monthly flux. Mothers +should instruct their daughters when the menses are +apt to begin, and what their function is. During +menstruation great care must be taken in using +water internally. A chill is sufficient to arrest the +flow. If menstruation does not establish itself in a +healthy or normal manner at the proper time, +consult a physician in order to remove this abnormal +condition. Any disturbance of the delicate +menstrual functions during the period, by constrained +positions, muscular effort, brain work +and mental or physical excitement, is apt to have +serious consequences.</p> + + +<h5>CONTINENCE AND THE YOUNG ADOLESCENT GIRL</h5> + +<p>Continence is, as a rule more easily observed by +the adolescent girl than by the adolescent youth.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> +Ordinarily the normal young girl has no <i>undue</i> +sexual propensities, amorous thoughts or feelings. +Though she is exposed to the danger of meeting +other girls who may be lewd in thought and speech, +in the houses of friends or at school, she is not apt +to be carried away by their example. Yet even a +good, pure-minded young girl may be debauched. +Especially during adolescence, the easy observance +of natural continence depends greatly on the proper +functioning of the feminine genital organs. These +may be easily disturbed. The syringe used for injections, +for so-called purposes of cleanliness, is in +reality a danger. The inner organs are self-cleansing. +Water or other fluids cast into them disorder +the mucous follicles, and dry up their secretions, +preventing the flowing out of some of Nature's +necessities. A daily washing of the inner organs +for a long period with water also produces chronic +leucorrhea.</p> + + +<h5>WHY YOUNG GIRLS FALL</h5> + +<p>Lack of proper early training, abnormal sex instincts, +weak good nature, poverty, all may be responsible +for a young girl's moral downfall. As a +general thing, right home training and home environment, +and sane sex education will prevent the normally +good girl from going wrong. It should be +remembered, though, that a naturally more gentle +and yielding disposition may easily lead her into +temptation. Girls who are sentimentally inclined +should beware of giving way to advances on the part +of young men which have only one object in view: +the gratification of their animal passion.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p> + +<p>The holding of hands and similar innocent beginnings +often pave the way for more familiar caresses. +Passionate kisses—the promiscuous kiss, by the +way, may be the carrier of that dread infection, +syphilis—violently awaken a young girl's sex instincts. +The fact is that many innocent girls idealize +their seducers. They believe their lying promises, +actually come to love them, and think that in gratifying +their inflamed desires, they are giving a proof +of the depth and purity of their own affection.</p> + +<p>Here, as in the case of the young man, self-control +should be the first thing cultivated. And self-control +should be made doubly sure by never +permitting one of the opposite sex to show undue +familiarity. Many a seemingly innocent flirtation, +begun with a kiss, has ended in shame and disgrace, +in loss of social standing and position, venereal +disease, or even death. The pure-minded and innocent +girl often becomes a victim of her ignorance +of the consequences entailed by giving in to the desires +of some male companion. <i>The girl who has a +knowledge of sex facts is less apt to be taken advantage +of in this manner.</i></p> + + +<h5>MODERN CONDITIONS WHICH ENCOURAGE +IMMORALITY</h5> + +<p><i>Excessive Freedom.</i>—The excessive freedom +granted the young girl, especially since the World +War, must be held responsible for a great increase +in familiarity between the adolescent youth of both +sexes. Many young girls of the “flapper” type, +in particular, are victims of these conditions<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span> +of unrestrained sex association. Sex precocity +is furthered in coeducational colleges, in the high +school and the home. Adolescents of both sexes too +often are practically unhampered in their comings +and goings, their words and actions. The surreptitious +pocket flask, filled with “hooch,” is often a +feature of social parties, dances and affairs frequented +by young people. Girls and boys drink together, +and as alcohol weakens moral resistance in +the one case, and stimulates desire in the other, deplorable +consequences naturally result. In the +United States the number of girls “sent home” from +colleges, and of high-school girls being privately +treated by physicians to save them from disgrace, is +incredibly large.</p> + +<p>Parents who do not control the social activities +of their daughters, who permit them to spend their +evenings away from home with only a general idea +of what they are doing or whom they are meeting, +need not be surprised if their morals are undermined.</p> + +<p><i>The Auto.</i>—The advent of the automobile is +responsible for an easy and convenient manner of +satisfying precociously aroused sex instincts in +young girls and boys. Often, unconscientious pleasure-seekers +roam the roads in their auto. They accost +girls who are walking and offer them a “lift.” +When the latter refuse to gratify their desires +they are often beaten and flung from the car. The +daily press has given such publicity to this civilized +form of “head hunting,” that it is difficult to sympathize +with girls who are thus treated. They cannot<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> +help but know that in nine cases out of ten, a +stranger who invites them to a ride, who “picks” +them up, does so with the definite purpose already +mentioned in view.</p> + +<p><i>Poverty.</i>—Poverty, too, plays a large part in +driving young girls into a life of vice. In all our +large cities there are hundreds of young women +who earn hardly enough to buy food and fuel and +pay for the rent of a room in a cheap lodging house. +Feminine youth longs for dress, for company, for +entertainment. It is easy enough to find a “gentleman +friend” who will provide all three, in exchange +for “companionship.” So the bargain is struck. +These conditions exist in a hundred and one occupations. +A young woman may go to a large city as +pure as snow, but finding no lucrative employment, +lonely and despondent, she is led to take her first +step on the downward path. Soon daily contact with +vice removes abhorrence to it. Familiarity makes it +habitual, and another life is ruined. The heartless +moral code of the cynical young pleasure-seeking +male is summed up in the cant phrase anent +women: “Find, ... and forget!” It is these girls, +who are victimized by their lack of self-restraint or +moral principle, their ignorance or weakness, who +make possible the application of such a maxim.</p> + + +<h5>VIRGINITY</h5> + +<p>Both mental and physical purity are rightfully required +of the young girl about to marry. How shall +she acquire and maintain this desirable state of +purity? The process is a simple one. <i>She must let a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> +knowledge of the true hygienic and moral laws of +her sex guide her in her relations with men.</i> She +must cultivate clean thought on a basis of physical +cleanliness. She need not be ignorant to be pure. +Men she should study carefully. She should not +allow them to sit with their arm about her waist, to +hold her hand, to kiss her. No approach nor touch +beyond what the best social observance sanctions +should be permitted. Even the tendernesses and +familiarities of courtship should be restrained. An +engagement does not necessarily culminate in a +marriage, and once the foot has slipped on virtue's +path the error cannot be recalled. These considerations, +together with those adduced in the preceding +section, “Why Young Girls Fall,” are well worth +taking to heart by every young woman who wishes +to approach matrimony in the right and proper way.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span></h2> + +<h3>SEX IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION<br /> + +<small>THE HUSBAND</small></h3> + + +<p class="newchapter"><span class="firstword"><span class="dropcap">M</span>arriage</span> is the process by which a man and +woman enter into a complete physical, legal +and moral union. The natural object of marriage +is the complete community of life for the establishment +of a family.</p> + + +<h5>THE MARRIAGEABLE AGE AND ADAPTATION</h5> + +<p>At twenty-four the male body attains its complete +development; and twenty-five is a proper age for the +young man to marry. Romantic love, personal +affection on a basis of congeniality, mutual adaptation, +a similar social sphere of life, should determine +his choice. Nature and custom indicate that the +husband should be somewhat older than the wife.</p> + + +<h5>MEN WHO SHOULD NOT MARRY</h5> + +<p>Men suffering with diseases which may be communicated +by contagion or heredity should not +marry. These diseases include: tuberculosis, syphilis, +cancer, leprosy, epilepsy and some nervous disorders, +some skin diseases and insanity. A worn-out +rake has no business to marry, since marriage is not +a hospital for the treatment of disease, or a reformatory +institution for moral lepers. Those having a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> +marked tendency to disease must not marry those +of similar tendency. The marriage of cousins is not +to be advocated. The blood relation tends to bring +together persons with similar morbid tendencies. +Where both are healthy, however, there seems to be +no special liability to mental incompetency, though +such marriages are accused of producing defective +or idiot children. Men suffering from congenital +defects should not marry. Natural blindness, deafness, +muteness, and congenital deformities of limb +are more or less likely to be passed on to their children. +There are cases of natural blindness, though, +to which this rule does not apply. Criminals, alcoholics, +and persons disproportionate in size should +not marry. In the last-mentioned, lack of mutual +physical adaptability may produce much unhappiness, +especially on the part of the wife. Serious +local disease, sterility, and great risk in childbirth +may result. Disparity of years, disparity of race, a +poverty which will not permit the proper raising of +children, undesirable moral character are all good +reasons for not marrying.</p> + + +<h5>MEDICAL EXAMINATION BEFORE MARRIAGE</h5> + +<p>Medical examination as a preliminary to marriage +is practically more valuable than a marriage license. +Since many entirely innocent young girls to-day +suffer from disease, incurred either through hereditary +or accidental infection, a would-be husband +may be said to be quite as much entitled to protection +as his bride-to-be. Prohibitive physical defects +are also discovered in this connection.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></h2> + +<h3>SEX IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION<br /> + +<small>THE WIFE</small></h3> + + +<p class="newchapter"><span class="firstword"><span class="dropcap">G</span>irls</span> marry, in the final analysis, because love +for the male is an innate natural principle of +the female nature. At its best this love is pure and +chaste. The good woman realizes that its first purpose +is not mere carnal pleasure. It is a special +avowal of the wife's relations to her husband, and +its natural as well as moral end is the establishment +of the family on the basis of a healthy progeny.</p> + + +<h5>BEFORE MARRIAGE</h5> + +<p>The wife-to-be, like her prospective husband, will +be well advised to ask for a medical health certificate. +No man, no matter how good his reputation +may be, should marry (on his own account as well +as that of the girl) without thorough examination +by a physician. The consequences of venereal infection +administered to unborn children by their parents +are too horrible to allow of any risk being +taken. Another bit of advice, which cannot be too +highly commended, is that the prospective husband +and wife, before they marry, have a plain talk with +each other regarding individual sexual peculiarities +and needs. A heart-to-heart talk of this kind would<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> +be apt to prevent great disappointments and incompatibilities +which otherwise may become permanent.</p> + + +<h5>THE WIFE AND HER POSITION</h5> + +<p>The natural instinct of a man is to seek his mate. +On her he depends for an orderly and lawful indulgence +of his sex demands. The greatest longevity +and best health are to be found among happily married +fathers and mothers. No young woman should +marry without a full knowledge of her sex duties +to her husband. And she should never consummate +the marriage vow grudgingly.</p> + + +<h5>CHILDBIRTH HYGIENE</h5> + +<p>Childbirth is the natural consequence of marriage. +Its processes have already been explained in Chapter +II of this book. There are, however, some +hygienic facts in connection with it which should +be noted. Once pregnancy is established, as soon as +the fact is suspected, the mother-to-be should look +on the little embryo as already a member of the +family. Every act of each parent should now be +performed (at least to some degree) with reference +to the forthcoming infant. The mother's thoughts +should be directed to it as much as possible. Mentally +she should read literature of a lofty and ennobling +character. The theory is that this serves a +good purpose in producing a more perfect, healthy +and intelligent child. Physically, she should take +plenty of active exercise during gestation. Active +exercise does not, of course, mean violent exercise. +And she should use a “Health Lift.” During this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> +time she should subsist as far as possible on a farinaceous +diet, fruits and vegetables. The foods +should be plainly cooked, without spices. If all else +is as it should be, the birth of the child at the end +of the customary nine months will be attended by +comparatively little pain and danger.</p> + + +<h5>HOW OFTEN SHOULD CHILDBIRTH TAKE PLACE?</h5> + +<p>It is most important that the childbearing wife and +mother have a long period of rest between births. +At least one year should separate a birth and the +conception following it. This means that about two +years should elapse between two births. If this rule +be followed, the wife will retain her health, and her +children will also be healthy. It is far better to give +birth to seven children, who will live and be healthy, +than to bear fourteen, of whom seven are likely to +die, while the numerous successive births wear out +and age the unfortunate mother.</p> + + +<h5>MATRIMONIAL ADJUSTMENT</h5> + +<p>The above paragraph deals with one detail of +what might be called “matrimonial adjustment.” +This adjustment or compromise is a feature of all +successful marriages. The individual cravings of +husband and wife must be reconciled by mutual +good will and forbearance if they are to be happy. +Attention should be paid in particular to not allowing +habit, “the worst foe of married happiness,” to +become too well established in the home, and to cultivate +that love and affection which survives the +decline of the sexual faculties.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span></p> + + +<h5>THE IDEAL MARRIAGE</h5> + +<p>The ideal marriage is the one in which affection +combines to bring happiness to both partners in a +sane union of sex and soul. As one commentator +has rather unhappily expressed it: “When married +the <i>battle</i> for one united and harmonious life really +begins!” It is, indeed, but too often a <i>battle</i>! Forbearance, +consideration and respect must be the +foundation on which the ideal married state is built. +The husband should realize that his wife's love for +him induces her to allow privileges of a personal +nature which her innate chastity and timidity might +otherwise refuse. In return, he should accept these +privileges with consideration. He should, in particular, +on his wedding night, take care not to shock +his young bride's sensibilities. He may easily give +her a shock from which she will not recover for +years, and lead her to form an antipathy against +the very act which is “the bond and seal of a truly +happy married life.”</p> + + +<h5>BIRTH CONTROL</h5> + +<p>Material changes have taken place in the birth-rate +of a number of countries during the past fifteen +or twenty years which cannot be attributed to purely +economic causes. They do not seem to depend on +such things as trade, employment and prices; but +on the spread of an idea or influence whose tendency +must be deplored, that of “birth control,” a phrase +much heard in these days.</p> + +<p>The fact that a decline in human fertility and a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span> +falling birth rate are most noticeable in the relatively +prosperous countries is a proof that it does not proceed +from economic causes; but is due rather to +the spread of the doctrine that it is permissible to +restrict or control birth. In such countries as the +United States, England and Australasia, where the +standards of human comfort and living are notoriously +high, the decline in the birth rate has been +most noticeable. On the other hand, we find perhaps +the greatest decline in the birth rate in France, +a country where the general well-being probably +reaches a lower depth in the community than in any +other part of Europe. A comparison of the birth +rates of France and of Ireland, for example, offer +a valuable illustration of the point under consideration. +In France, more than half the women who +have reached the age of nubility are married; in +Ireland, generally speaking, less than a third. In +both countries the crude birth rate is far below that +in other European lands. Yet the fertility of the +Irish wife exceeded that of her French compeer by +44 per cent in 1880, and by no less than 84 per cent +in 1900. And since that time the prolificity of the +Irish mother has so increased that she is now, approximately +speaking, inferior only to the Dutch or +Finnish mother in this respect.</p> + +<p>In general, in any country where we find a +diminished prolificity a falling off of childbirth <i>unaccompanied</i> +by a decrease in the number of marriages +occurring at the reproductive ages, we may +attribute this decrease to <i>voluntary restriction of +childbearing</i> on the part of the married, or in other<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span> +words, to the prevalance of “birth control.” This +incidentally, is not a theoretical statement, but one +supported by the almost unanimous medical opinion +in all countries. Everywhere and especially here in +our own United States, we find evidence of the extensive +employ of “birth control” measures to prevent +that normal development of family life which +underlies the vigor and racial power of every nation. +These preventive measures which arbitrarily +control human birth had long been in use in France +with results which, especially since the war, have +been frequently and publicly deplored in the press, +and have led the French Government to offer substantial +rewards to encourage the propagation of +large families. From France the preventive practises +of “birth control” had spread, after 1870, +over nearly all the countries of western Europe, to +England and to the United States; though they are +not as much apparent in those countries where the +Roman Church has a strong hold on the people.</p> + +<p>As a general thing, the practice of thus unnaturally +limiting families—“unnaturally” since the +custom of “birth control” derives from no natural, +physical law—prevails, in the first instance, among +the well-to-do, who should rather be the first to set +the example of protest against it by having the +families they are so much better able to support +and educate than those less favored with the world's +goods. If the evil of voluntary control of human +birth were restricted to a privileged class, say one +of wealth, the harm done would, perhaps, not be so +great. But, unfortunately, in the course of time<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> +it filters down as a “gospel of comfort”—erroneous +term!—to those whose resources are less. They +accept and practice this invidious system of prevention +and gradually the entire community is +more or less affected.</p> + +<p>The whole system of “birth control” is opposed to +natural, human and religious law. Nature, in none +of her manifestations, introduces anything which +may tend to prevent her great reason for being—the +propagation of the species. Birth as the natural +sequence of mating is her solemn and invariable +law. It is in birth and rebirth that nature renews +herself and all the life of the animal and vegetable +world, and her primal aim is to encourage it. Human +law recognizes this underlying law of nature +by forbidding man to tamper in a preventive way +with her hallowed and mysterious processes for +perpetuating the human race. Religious law, based +on the divine dispensation of the Scriptures, indorses +the law of nature and that of the state.</p> + +<p>We may take it, then, that “birth control” represents +a deliberate and reprehensible attempt to +nullify those innate laws of reproduction sanctioned +by religion, tradition and man's own ingrained instinct. +To say that the human instinct for the perpetuation +of his race and family has become +atrophied during the flight of time, and that he is +therefore justified in denying it, is merely begging +the question. The instinct may be denied, just as +other higher and nobler instincts are disregarded; +but its validity cannot be questioned. Whether +those who practice “birth control” are influenced<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> +by economic, selfishly personal or other reasons, +they are offending in a threefold manner: against +the inborn wish and desire which is a priceless possession +of even the least of God's creatures, that +of living anew in its offspring; against the law of +the state, which after all, stands for the crystallization +of the best feeling of the community; and +against the divine injunction handed down to us +in Holy Writ, to “increase and multiply.”</p> + +<p>“Birth control” is the foe to the direct end and +aim of marriage, which, in the last analysis, is childbirth. +As an enemy to the procreation of children +it is an enemy of the family and the family group. +As an enemy of the family, it is an enemy of the +state, the community, a foe to the whole social +system. Mankind has been able to attain its comparatively +recent state of moral and physical advancement +without having recourse to the dangerous +principle which “birth control” represents. Surely +that wise provision of our existing legal code which +makes the printing or dessimation of information +regarding the physical facts of “birth control” illegal +and punishable as an offense, can only be approved +by those who respect the Omnipotent will, and the +time-hallowed traditions which date back to the +very inception of the race.</p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a>CHAPTER IX<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span></h2> + +<h3>SEX DISEASES</h3> + + +<p class="newchapter"><span class="firstword"><span class="dropcap">T</span>he</span> sex diseases are the same in both sexes, +whether developed by direct or accidental +infection. They are the greatest practical argument +in favor of continence, morality and marriage in +the sex relation.</p> + + +<h5>GONORRHEA</h5> + +<p>Gonorrhea is a pus-discharging inflammation of +the canal known as the <i>urethra</i>, which passing +through the entire length of the organ, carries both +the urine and the seminal fluid. It is caused by a +venereal bacillus, the <i>gonococcus</i>. Under favorable +conditions and with right treatment, gonorrhea may +be cured, though violently painful, in fourteen days. +Often the inflammation extends, becomes chronic +and attacks other organs. This chronic gonorrhea +often causes permanent contraction of the urethra, +which leads to the painful retention of urine, +catarrh of the bladder, and stone. Chronic gonorrhea, +too, often ends in death, especially if the +kidneys are attacked. A cured case of gonorrhea +does not mean immunity from further attacks. New +infections are all the more easily acquired. Gonorrhea +has even more dangerous consequences in +women than in men. The <i>gonococcus</i> bacilli infect +all the inner female genital organs. They cause<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span> +frequent inflammations and lead to growths in the +belly. Women thus attacked usually are apt to be +sterile; they suffer agonies, and often become +chronic invalids. The child born of a gonorrheal +mother, while passing through the infected genital +organs, comes to life with infected eyelids. This is +<i>Blennorrhea</i>, which may result in total blindness. +Gonorrhea also causes inflammation of the joints, +gonorrheal rheumatism, testicular inflammations +which may lead to sterility. Some authorities claim +that fully half the sterility in women is caused by +gonorrheal infection of the Fallopian tubes. Gonorrheal +infection of the eyes at birth is now prevented +by first washing them in a saturated solution +of boric acid, then treating them with a drop of +weak silver solution.</p> + + +<h5>SYPHILIS</h5> + +<p>Syphilis is a still more terrible venereal disease. +It usually appears first in small, hard sores, hard +chancres, on the sexual parts or the mouth. Then +the syphilitic poison spreads throughout the whole +body by means of the blood. After a few weeks it +breaks out on the face or body. Its final cure is +always questionable. Syphilis may lie dormant for +years, and then suddenly become active again. It +breaks out in sores on all parts of the body, often +eats up the bone, destroys internal organs, such as +the liver, causes hardening of the lungs, diseases of +the blood vessels and eye diseases. Ulcers of the +brain and nerve paralysis often result from it. One +of its most terrible consequences is consumption of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span> +the spinal marrow and paralysis of the brain, or +paresis. The first slowly hardens and destroys the +spinal marrow, the second the brain. These diseases +are only developed by previous syphilitics. As +a rule they occur from 5 to 20 years after infection, +usually 10 or 15 years after it. And they usually +happen to persons who believed themselves completely +cured. Consumption of the spinal marrow +leads to death in the course of a few years of continual +torture. Paralysis of the brain turns the +sufferer into a human ruin, gradually extinguishing +all mental and nervous functions, sentience, +movement, speech and intellect.</p> + +<p>One danger of syphilis is the fact that its true +nature may be overlooked during the first period, +because of the lack of pronounced symptoms. Its +early sores may easily be mistaken for some skin +affection. Mercury and other means are successful +in doing away with at least the more noticeable +signs of syphilis during the first and secondary +stages. The modern medical treatment using mercury +and Salvarsan (606) in alternation, has been +very successful. It is claimed that by following it, +syphilis may be totally cured if taken in hand during +the first stage. The sores developed during the first +two or three years of the disease are very infectious. +In the case of a chronic syphilis of three or four +years' standing, the sores as a rule are no longer +infectious. It is possible, however, for a syphilitic +of this description to bring forth syphilitic children, +<i>without infecting his wife</i>. Such children either die +at birth, or later, of this congenital syphilis. They<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> +may also die of spinal consumption or paresis between +the ages of 10 and 20. The mortality of +all syphilitic children is very great. In most cases, +however, healthy children are born of the wedlock +of <i>relatively cured</i> syphilitics, though they are +often sterile. Young men who have had recourse +to prostitutes, often inoculate their wives with +gonorrhea or syphilis, and thus the plague is spread.</p> + + +<h5>THE SOFT CHANCRE</h5> + +<p>The soft chancre is the third form of venereal disease +(the hard chancre being the first stage of +syphilis). It is the least dangerous of the venereal +diseases, but unfortunately, relatively the one which +occurs most seldom. When not complicated with +syphilis, it appears locally. It is a larger or smaller +sore feeding and growing on the genital organs.</p> + + +<h5>VENEREAL DISEASE AN ADVOCATE OF CONTINENCE</h5> + +<p>The most tragic consequence of all venereal disease +is the part it plays in the infection of innocent +children, and innocent wives and mothers. Often +a pure and chaste woman is thus deprived in the +most cruel and brutal manner of the fruit of all +her hopes and dreams of happiness. Similarly, a +young man may find himself hopelessly condemned +to a short life of pain and misery. He may also +suffer from the knowledge that he has ruined the +lives of those dearest to him. Venereal disease, +syphilis in particular, emphasizes the <i>practical</i> value +of continence—quite aside from its moral one—in +a manner which cannot be ignored!</p> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a>CHAPTER X<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></h2> + +<h3>LOVE AND SEX</h3> + + +<p class="newchapter"><span class="firstword"><span class="dropcap">W</span>hen</span> we take under consideration the higher, +truer love of one sex for the other, that is, +an affection which is not simply a friendship, but +has a sex basis, we realize that it may be a very +noble emotion. There is no manner of doubt but +that the normal human being feels a great need for +love. Sex in love and its manifestation in the life +of the soul is one of the first conditions of human +happiness, and a main aim of human existence.</p> + +<p>All know the tale of Cupid's arrow. A man falls +in love with a face, a pair of eyes, the sound of a +voice, and his affection is developed from this trifling +beginning until it takes complete possession of +him. This love is usually made up of two components: +a sex instinct, and feelings of sympathy and +interest which hark back to primal times. And this +love, in its true sense, should stand for an affection +purified from egoism.</p> + +<p>When, among the lower animal forms we find +individuals without a determined sex, egoism develops +free from all restraint. Each individual +creature devours as much as it can and feeding, +together with propagation by division, “budding” +or conjunction, makes up the total of its vital activities. +It need do no more to accomplish the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span> +purpose of its existence. Even when propagation +commences to take place by means of individual +male and female parents, the same principle of egoism +largely obtains. The spiders are typical instances +of this: in their case the carrying out of the +natural functions of the male spider is attended +with much danger for him, owing to the fact that +if he does not exercise the greatest care, he is apt +to be devoured immediately afterward by his female +partner, in order that no useful food matter may be +lost. Yet even in the case of the spiders, the female +spider already gives proof of a certain capacity for +sacrifice where her young are concerned, at any +rate for a short time after they have crept from +the egg.</p> + +<p>In animals somewhat higher in the creative scale, +more or less powerful feelings of affection may develop +out of their sex association. There is affection +on the part of the male for his mate, and on the +part of the female for her young. Often these +feelings develop into a strong, lasting affection between +the sexes, and years of what might be called +faithful matrimonial union have been observed in +the case of birds. This in itself is sufficient to +establish the intimate relationship between love in +a sex sense and love in a general sense. And even in +the animal creation we find the same analogy existing +between these feelings of sympathy and their +opposites which occur in the case of human beings. +Every feeling of attachment or sympathy existing +between two individuals has a counterpart in an +opposite feeling of discontent when the object of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> +the love or attachment in question dies, falls sick, +or runs away. This feeling of discontent may assume +the form of a sorrow ending in lasting melancholy. +In the case of apes and of certain parrots, +it has been noticed that the death of a mate has frequently +led the survivor to refuse nourishment, and +die in turn from increasing grief and depression. +If, on the other hand, an animal discovers the cause +of the grief or loss which threatens it; if some +enemy creature tries to rob it of its mate or little +ones, the mixed reactive feeling of rage or anger +is born in it, anger against the originator of its +discontent. Jealousy is only a definite special form +of this anger reaction.</p> + +<p>A further development of the feeling of sympathy +is that of duty. Every feeling of love or sympathy +urges those who feel it to do certain things which +will benefit the object of that love. A mother will +feed her young, bed them down comfortably, caress +them; a father will bring nourishment to the mother +and her brood, and protect them against foes. All +these actions, not performed to benefit the creature +itself, but to help its beloved mate, represent exertion, +trouble, the overcoming of danger, and lead to +a struggle between egoism and the feeling of sympathy. +Out of this struggle is born a third feeling, +that of responsibility and conscience. Thus the elements +of the human social feelings are already +quite pronounced in the case of many animals, including +those of love as well as sex.</p> + +<p>In the human animal, speaking in general, these +feelings of sympathy (love) and duty are strongly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span> +developed in the family connection; that is, they are +developed with special strength in those who are +most intimately united in sex life, in husband and +wife and in children. Consequently the feelings of +sympathy or love which extend to larger communal +groups, such as more distant family connections, the +tribe, the community, those speaking the same +tongue, the nation, are relatively far weaker. +Weakest of all, in all probability, is that general +human feeling which sees a brother in every other +human being and is conscious of the social duties +owed him.</p> + +<p>As regards man and wife, the relation of the actual +sex instinct to love is often a very complicated +one. In the case of man the sex feeling may, and +frequently does exist independent of love in the +higher sense; in the case of woman it is quite certain +that love occurs far less seldom unaccompanied by +the sex inclination. It is also quite possible for love +to develop before the development of the sex feeling, +and this often, in married life, leads to the happiest +relationships.</p> + +<p>The mutual adoration of two individuals, husband +and wife, often degenerates into a species of egoistic +enmity toward the remainder of the world. And +this, in turn, in many cases reacts unfavorably upon +the love the two feel for each other. Human solidarity, +especially in this day, is already too great +not to revenge itself upon the egotistical character +of so exclusive a love. The real ideal of sex in love +might be expressed as follows: A man and a +woman should be induced to unite in marriage<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> +through genuine sex attraction and harmony of +character and disposition. In this union they should +mutually encourage each other to labor socially for +the common good of mankind, in such wise that +<i>they further their own mutual education and that of +their children</i>, the beings nearest and dearest to +them, <i>as the natural point of departure for helping +general human betterment</i>.</p> + +<p>If love in its relation to sex be conceived in this +manner, it will purify it by doing away with its +pettinesses and it is just into these pettinesses that +the most honest and upright of matrimonial loves +too often degenerate. The constructive work done +in common by two human beings who, while they +care lovingly for each other, at the same time encourage +each other to strive and endure in carrying +out the principles of right living and high thinking, +will last. Love and marriage looked at from this +point of view, are relatively immune from the small +jealousies and other evil little developments of a +one-sided, purely physical affection. It will work +for an ever more ideal realization of love in its +higher and nobler dispensations.</p> + +<p>Real and true love is lasting. The suddenly +awakened storm of sex affection for a hitherto +totally unknown person can never be accepted as a +true measure for love. This sudden surge of the +sex feeling warps the judgment, makes it possible to +overlook the grossest defects, colors all and everything +with heavenly hues. It makes a man who is +“in love,” or two beings who are in love, mutually +blind, and causes each to carefully conceal his or her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span> +real inward self from the other. This may be the +case even when the feelings of both are absolutely +honest, especially if the sex feeling is not paired +with cool egoistic calculation. Not until the first +storm of the sex feeling has subsided, when honeymoon +weeks are over, is a more normal point of +view regained. And then love, indifference, or +hatred, as the case may be develops. It is for this +reason that love at first sight is always dangerous, +and that only a longer and more intimate acquaintance +with the object of one's affection is +calculated to give a lasting union a relatively good +chance of turning out happily. One thing is worth +bearing in mind. Woman invariably represents +the conservative element in the family. Her emotional +qualities, combined with wonderful endurance, +always control her intellect more powerfully +than is the case with man; and the feelings +and emotions form the conservative element in +the human soul.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Sex, by Henry Stanton + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEX *** + +***** This file should be named 23680-h.htm or 23680-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/6/8/23680/ + +Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was +produced from scanned images of public domain material +from the Google Print project.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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