5. Avoid solitude, for then it is that temptation comes, and you are

1. Chapter 1 2. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3. INTRODUCTION. 4. 1. In childhood, and until about the age of puberty, respiration in 5. 2. Although there is a change in the mode of respiration in most females, 6. 3. We believe the cause of this modification of respiration is the 7. 4. We have met a number of ladies whose good fortune and good sense 8. 1. Do not allow the boy or girl to be overworked, either mentally or 9. 2. Keep the mind occupied. While excessive labor should be avoided, 10. 3. Abundant exercise out-of-doors is essential for both sexes. Sunshine 11. 4. Watch carefully the associations of the youth. This should be done 12. 5. None too much care can be exercised at this important epoch of human 13. 2. Intense mental excitement, as well as severe physical labor, is to 14. 3. A third hint, which is applicable to both sexes and at all times, 15. 4. Take daily exercise, as much as possible short of fatigue; if 16. 4. Perhaps nothing tends more directly to the production of menstrual 17. 1. If a child is begotten in lust, its lower passions will as certainly 18. 2. The same remarks apply with equal force to the transmission of other 19. 3. The influence of the father is, at the outset, as great as that of 20. 4. If during gestation the mother is fretful, complaining, and 21. 1. For the beginning of a new life, select the most favorable time, 22. 2. If a child has been properly conceived, the duty then devolves upon 23. 3. After birth, the mother still possesses a molding influence upon 24. 1. During the development of the body, all its energies are required 25. 2. The reproductive act is the most exhaustive of all vital acts. Its 26. 3. The effects upon the female are even worse than those upon the male; 27. 2. That a robust man requires more than one woman to satisfy his sexual 28. 3. That there are more women than men; and since every woman has a right 29. 4. That the great men of all ages have been polygamists in fact, if 30. 5. That monogamy is a relic of the paganism of the ancient Greeks and 31. 6. That it is the only proper and effective cure for the "social evil," 32. 1. We deny most emphatically the assertion that polygamy is either 33. 2. The second argument is based upon the asserted fact that man 34. 3. While it is true that there are a few more adult women than men, 35. 4. In proof of the propriety of polygamy, as well as of its necessity, 36. 5. The fact that monogamy was practiced among the ancient Greeks and 37. 6. The argument that polygamy will cure the "social evil" is exactly 38. 1. They are useful as well as healthful. While they call into action 39. 1. The sexual function is for the purpose of producing new individuals 40. 2. In the animal kingdom generally, the reproductive function is 41. 3. In those exceptional cases in which the organs of the male are in 42. 4. Fecundation of the female element can only take place about the time 43. 5. The desire for sexual congress naturally exists in the female only 44. 6. The constant development of the sexual organs in human males is a 45. 7. The time of sexual congress is always determined by the condition 46. 1. The fact that in all animals but the human species the act can be 47. 2. The fact that the males of other animals besides man in which the 48. 3. The general law that the reproductive act is performed only when 49. 1. The moment that prostitution is placed under the protection of law 50. 2. Why should so vile a crime as fornication be taken under legal 51. 3. By the use of certain precautionary measures the fears of many will 52. 1. Those which may arouse suspicion, but any one of which, taken singly, 53. 2. Those which may be regarded as positive. Several suspicious signs 54. 1. _General debility_, coming upon a previously healthy child, marked 55. 2. _Early symptoms of consumption_--or what are supposed to be such--as 56. 3. _Premature and defective development_ is a symptom closely allied 57. 4. _Sudden change in disposition_ is a sign which may well arouse 58. 5. _Lassitude_ is as unnatural for a child as for a young kitten. A 59. 6. In connection with the preceding symptom will generally be found, 60. 7. _Sleeplessness_ is another symptom of significance. Sound sleep is 61. 8. _Failure of mental capacity_ without apparent cause should occasion 62. 9. _Fickleness_ is another evidence of the working of some 63. 10. _Untrustworthiness_ appearing in a child should attract attention 64. 11. _Love of solitude_ is a very suspicious sign. Children are naturally 65. 12. _Bashfulness_ is not infrequently dependent upon this cause. It 66. 13. _Unnatural boldness_, in marked contrast with the preceding sign, 67. 14. _Mock piety_--or perhaps we should more properly designate it as 68. 15. _Easily frightened_ children are abundant among young masturbators, 69. 16. _Confusion of ideas_ is another characteristic of the devotee of 70. 17. Boys in whom the habit has become well developed sometimes manifest 71. 18. _Round shoulders_ and a stooping posture in sitting are 72. 19. _Weak backs, pains in the limbs, and stiffness of the joints_, in 73. 20. _Paralysis_ of the lower extremities, coming on without apparent 74. 21. The _gait_ of a person addicted to this vice will usually betray 75. 22. _Bad positions_ in bed are evidences which should be noticed. If 76. 23. _Lack of development of the breasts_ in females, after puberty, 77. 24. _Capricious appetite_ particularly characterizes children 78. 25. One very constant peculiarity of such children is their extreme 79. 26. _Eating clay, slate-pencils, plaster, chalk,_ and other 80. 27. Disgust for simple food is one of the traits which a victim of this 81. 28. _The use of tobacco_ is good presumptive evidence that a boy is 82. 29. _Unnatural paleness_ and colorless lips, unless they can be 83. 30. _Acne_, or _pimples_, on the face are also among the suspicious 84. 31. _Biting the finger nails_ is a practice very common in girls 85. 32. The eyes often betray much. If, in addition to want of luster and 86. 33. An habitually moist, cold hand, is a suspicious circumstance in 87. 34. _Palpitation of the heart_, frequently occurring, denotes a 88. 35. _Hysteria_ in females may be regarded as a suspicious circumstance 89. 36. _Chlorosis_, or _green sickness_, is very often caused by the unholy 90. 37. _Epileptic fits_ in children are not infrequently the result of 91. 38. _Wetting the bed_ is an evidence of irritation which may be 92. 39. _Unchastity of speech_ and fondness for obscene stories betray a 93. 2. Loss of the seminal fluid. 94. 1. The composition of the nerves and that of spermatozoa is nearly 95. 2. Men from whom the testes have been removed before puberty, as in 96. 1. Begin by a resolution to reform, strengthened by the most solemn 97. 2. Resolve to reform _now_; not to-morrow or next week, but this very 98. 3. Begin the work of reform by purging the mind. If a lewd thought enters 99. 4. As a help to purity of mind, whenever impure thoughts enter, 100. 5. Avoid solitude, for then it is that temptation comes, and you are 101. 6. Strictly comply with all the rules laid down for the cultivation 102. 7. Above all, seek for grace and help from the Source of all spiritual 103. 1. _Never overeat_. If too much food is taken at one meal, fast the 104. 2. _Eat but twice a day_, or, if supper is eaten, let it be very light, 105. 3. _Discard all stimulating food_. Under this head must be included, 106. 4. _Stimulating drinks_ should be abstained from with still greater 107. 5. In place of such articles as have been condemned, eat fruits, grains, 108. 1. From seven to nine hours' sleep are required by all persons. The 109. 2. Arise immediately upon waking in the morning if it is after four 110. 3. If insufficient sleep is taken at night, sleep a few minutes just 111. 4. Never go to bed with the bowels or bladder loaded. The bladder should 112. 5. The position in sleeping is of some importance. Sleeping upon the 113. 6. Soft beds and pillows must be carefully avoided. Feather-beds should 114. 7. Too many covers should be avoided with equal care. The thinnest 115. 8. Thorough ventilation of the sleeping-room, both while occupied and 116. 9. If wakeful at night, instead of lying in bed trying to go to sleep, 117. 10. One of the most effectual panaceas for certain varieties of 118. 1. It is not a remedy, since, as in the case of illicit intercourse, 119. 2. If it were a remedy, it would not be a justifiable one, for its use 120. 3. As another reason why the remedy would not be a _proper_, even if 121. 1. Give the matter prompt attention. Do not delay to adopt curative 122. 2. Set about the work of getting well with a fixed determination to 123. 3. Avoid watching for symptoms. Ills are greatly exaggerated by 124. 4. Never consult a quack. The newspapers abound with lying 125. 5. Do not despair of ever recovering from the effects of past 126. 6. Every sufferer from sexual disease must make up his mind to live, 127. 2. The production of similar individuals which shall also have the power