We have already said that duality is the Law of existence. It is the constant swing of the pendulum from the extreme right to the extreme left; from the extreme left to the extreme right. Without this dual activity there would be quiescence; stagnation, death. The extreme of continence is met by the opposite extreme; debauchery and libertinism; one as destructive as the other. Only BETWEEN these two opposites can we find rationalism, naturalism and finally, divinity.

The debauchee and the libertine consider life worth living only in the practice of sensual excesses; only variety and promiscuity appeal to them. Like the gourmand who lives only to eat, these human beings are governed by carnality. They exist only for the enjoyment of the sensual life; they are slaves to a depraved appetite; the result of irritation and inflammation of the creative organism.

Those who preach and actually practice continence starve their entire being; body, mind and the spiritual self, because they refuse to supply their organism with the vital magnetism obtainable only through a proper exchange, and by suppression of a natural function they bring about stagnation. Those guilty of various excesses not only shock the system continually with the streams of magnetic forces from many sources, but they also counter-shock the nervous system by the different rates of vibration.

Thus they bring about irritations in the creative organism, much after the manner produced by congestion resulting from the practice of continence, and this in turn develops prostatitis and all the attendant ailments.

It is frequently questioned whether continence is as harmful to woman as it is to man and in what manner its injurious effects appear.

The basis of sex desire is widely different between the male and the female, and the results of gratification differ. Generally the desire for Coitus in a woman has its incentive in an entirely different emotion than that of man. In him it arises from a desire to indulge solely for pleasure's sake.

This is seldom the basis of a woman's desire. With her the act is based more on the desire to give pleasure to the loved one than her own desire for satisfaction. Woman's love or affectional nature is finer, purer and less self-interested than man's and involves different emotions.

When we say that desire for indulgence is based on pleasure or self-satisfaction, we must not forget that in health and under normal conditions there is an inner, unconscious urge and need for physical relief on his part, and a nervous, emotional relaxation on her part. This is an additional call of nature for the exchange of the spirit in the vital forces; this last being most important to health and physical well being.

The difference between the sexes is both physical and emotional. Physically, in the male there are glands which form a reservoir for the storing of highly vitalized fluids, the fluids which not only contain the "seed" for new creations, but also act as an excitant toward exercise of the function.

It is this fluid, with its "seed," which deteriorates and becomes an irritant if it is not taken into the blood circulation for the rebuilding and revitalization of the system, or exchanged during the marital embrace.

The woman possesses no such glands. She does not secrete vital fluids of this nature, but we must not overlook the fact that the vaginal glands secrete a vitalized or magnetic fluid in the lochia.

This is not an excitant, but becomes an irritant if the love and affectional nature is not satisfied as required by nature.

This physical difference are evidence that desire in woman is not based on the storing of the fluid acting as an excitant, but as stated, on a nervous excitement call into action through the nearness and caresses of the male. Because of the lack of glands storing a vital essence, continence is not as harmful to the woman as it is to man; nevertheless, a woman practicing continence does not escape all harm-unharmed.

When the nervous system is aroused and the lochia flows freely into the vagina, it is nearly always an indication of a congestion of blood in the creative organism; and unless this congestion is relieved by the natural process of sexual embrace, the entire generative system suffers.

The destructive effects of continence appear much more quickly in man because his nature is more easily aroused, and he lacks relief because there is no release of the seminal fluid. This fluid acts as an irritant to the urinary canal, arousing a feeling of antagonism to everything about him and a morbidity concerning life as a whole.

There yet is another reason why continence is of greater harm to the male than to the female. In her, nature has fittingly established a periodic outlet for the relief and purification of the entire body, and especially the generative system.

Nature does not provide the male with any such regular source of relief. He must depend on a number of other means: involuntary losses during sleep or with the urine - not at all desirable - absorption of the vital fluids by the circulation; or in Coitus.

The much - mooted question as to the intensity of desire, whether the male or the female possesses the greater, cannot be answered at random or en massee. The balance between the sexes is preserved; but so far as individuals are concerned, it varies according to their temperament.

In the practice of many years as physician, and an equal number of years as a confessor, we have had ample opportunity to investigate this problem thoroughly and unemotionally. From the confessions of many women, we conclude the desire of the female, when thoroughly aroused by real love caresses is of an intensity unknown to any male. Her nervous system is infinitely finer and upon the fineness of the nerves depends the capacity to suffer or enjoy. In truth, her nervous system may be likened to the strings of the finest Opera Grand, while man's more closely resembles that of the old fashioned square piano.

Many women patients have declared without hesitation that the inflammation of the ovaries, congestion of the uterus and the abhorrent flow of fluor albus, are directly due to passion fully aroused but left unsatisfied.

This is so universally true that we have made it an invariable rule, in arriving at a correct diagnosis, to thoroughly question the consultant relative to her habits of sex life. In seventy-five per cent of the cases under consideration, the difficulty could be traced either to forced, partial, non-fulfillment of desire or the Coitus Interruptus in one form or another.

In the single, relief may be found through a change in the habits of life, and in local treatments and soothing application. Among the married, a cure is possible if there is a mutual willingness to correct the errors of the marital embrace.

Fully fifty per cent of the sorrows, sufferings and miseries of women, whether physical, mental or domestic, or a combination of all three, are traceable to ignorance concerning matters of sex, disobedience of the laws relating to sex or resorting to unnatural practices.

The other fifty per cent coming under observation were the result of a wide variety of causes, any or all of which might accentuate the suffering due to disease of the creative organism. Under this heading might be mentioned overwork, and the consequent reaction, too-rich foods, or congestion of the system, which has a strongly adverse influence on the creative organism. In the case of girls, it has been found that dancing and other exercises performed in the company of young men, though unconscious on the part of the girls, arouses the passions and emotions and creates disturbances in the generative system.

Without fear of successful contradiction, it may be stated that while sex intensity in general may be equal in both sexes, mere passion is much more prevalent in men than in women. Men all to frequently seek the embrace as a matter of relief and pleasure, while women, as previously mentioned, become aroused sexually more through their desire to bestow pleasure on the loved one, than through the stimulus of actual physical passion.

Proof of this is readily found. A man upon becoming aroused, seeks relief - even if it is through the medium of a woman he would refuse to recognize at any other time. This has been the curse of the human family. A woman, on the contrary, would seldom do this. If she cannot be emotionally incited first, she remains cold to all advances; indicating that affection - not passion - is the motivating force which urges her to respond.

There are exceptions, of course, to every rule, but we have in mind the vast majority of respectable men and women. This analysis does not apply to the libertine who glories in his betrayals and amours, nor to the women of Scarlet Lane who seek existence through the sale of their bodies.

In discussing the problems of continence, we wish to place every phase of the subject before the student so that there will be no misunderstanding. It is admitted by all investigators that the most developed of the human race have not yet reached the ultimate of perfection in the understanding of God's Creative Laws. Our statements may appear radical, even dictatorial. We do not represent them as being final or absolute; but we do submit them as being in accordance with the findings of vast experience. We suggest that research workers weigh our assertions in the light of their own observations, maintaining an open mind, then "hold fast to that which is true."

When we contend that abstinence for any great length of time is contrary to both natural and divine law unless made necessary through absence or illness, there are certain other exceptions that must have our consideration. These exceptions all the forcibly emphasize the truth and value of the governing law.

For example, take a normal, loving, naturally-developed woman, one who may be aroused to passion by love caresses. Suppose she chooses a husband who ultimately proves to be more brute than man; who, understanding nothing, and caring less, for the fineness and sweetness of the wife's nature, crushes her love and affection by the coarseness and brutality of his sex demonstrations; sex, to him, spelling gratification, and that only.

When he desires the exercise, he recognizes no such law as the desirability and necessity of first arousing her emotion through caresses, but acts the brute from beginning to end. To the nature of such a woman, the rite becomes a horrible nightmare. It fills her with loathing; with the result that she naturally and involuntarily remains cold and unresponsive.

If she conceives through the unnatural act, the chances will be, a hundred to one, that the child, whether male or female, will be cold by nature, utterly devoid of sex proclivities; and upon reaching adolescence, will be prone to live a continent life, because that part of the emotional and creative nature is undeveloped, if not totally missing.

Any one thus born and damned with such a constitution cannot help his or her indifference to the calls of sex; all too frequently being incapable of responding to the emotions normal to the race.

Without doubt, many of the teachers of continence who are accepted as authorities, were conceived and born under these conditions, and hence are really true to their nature. Their influence is all the more pernicious because they are true to themselves when they teach this doctrine. They speak from personal experience and believe their lack of desire and sex expression a normal condition, when , as an actual fact, they are monstrosities, born of an accursed, loveless union.

An instance in mind is that of a woman of thirty years, who, with tears of shame, sought of us the meaning of her singular attitude on sex; requesting of us an explanation of why she seemed so different from other women.

She confessed that she could not comprehend her own emotions, or lack of them; that never once had she desired the sexual embrace; never felt love for any man; was wholly without comprehension of the terms, "love and affection." Hearing such subjects discussed, she felt bewildered; everything belonging to the tender passion being totally beyond her comprehension.

The solution of the enigma was found through the mother. She had never once known any satisfaction. All her children were born under these conditions; where all cold of nature, sexually inert; they lacked ambition; were without the incentive to accomplish anything in life.

The case could be traced back to another generation; the mother being cold and unresponsive, it may well be presupposed that her mother before her had become abnormal through abuse or mismating.

Such conditions must be rectified, and a thorough knowledge of the laws governing sex is the only means through which this can be accomplished. Race regeneration cannot attain to any perceptible degree until all individuals actively express, and manifest, God's laws.

When every man and woman is taught the plain truth of a complete life, the reclaiming of the human race will be well on the way. What can be more sorrowful in the sight of an All-Wise Father than to see his children stumbling along in the darkness of ignorance? If man, through lack of fundamental knowledge, cannot know human love in its various aspects, how can he ever come into an understanding of the love of the Giver of all these gifts?

The statement is frequently made that men and women wholly mentally absorbed and physically occupied in some great undertaking inventors, scientists, astronomers and those engaged in other vocations requiring intense concentration - are able to live in continence with no ill effects.

Such a statement is based on a truthful fact, and on this fact are based the instructions for the healthy unmarried. These people intensely engaged in some specific work, concentrate their entire mental capacity on the object in view; follow in thought and desire the particular idea waking and sleeping; hence all power, forces and energies are drawn to a focal point, and used in the furtherance of the one object in life.

To such persons, continence is possible without harmful after effects. Consciously or unconsciously, they apply one of Nature's greatest laws - that of transmutation. The vital forces generated by the creative system are marshaled to the brain and absorbed through mental activity. Very few men in a generation are able to do this.

Many of the ablest physicians of the past and present declare that men of this type border on insanity; in fact, that genius is a form of insanity. The mind concentrated, day in and day out, on one thing, is unbalanced, one-sided, and abnormal in respect to other things; while the unexercised capability of sex gradually decreases, and if continence continues, is finally destroyed; the fountain of youth is dried up, is lost forever.

Considering everything, are we not justified in claiming that no one, great or small, can practice continence without injury to themselves and others? Even in the case of genius, if the foundation of the love nature is destroyed, is he not that much the poorer? Has he not wronged humanity, as well as himself, in placing himself where it is impossible for him to love, and feel, with the rest of the race?

Are we not safe in venturing the remark that the genius could still have given the world the benefit of his mighty intellect, and yet have kept the roots of his love nature alive and flourishing? The love embrace is not always essential to such a nature to prevent the death of the desire. There are many temperaments that store the vital fluid slowly; nature does not demand the same activity of all men.

The problem of domesticity and "the vice of nations" cannot be overlooked. When the wife believes in and practices continence, what is the husband to do? Because the woman chooses to consistently follow what he honestly FEELS is the Path of Death, is it good and sufficient to force him to live in a manner he is convinced will bring about his impotence and incompetence?

Many husbands, men of honor and decency, are refused "their natural right"; because of emotional coldness, religious scruples, or other unsound reasons. alas, some of these men have denied themselves until nature could bear the pressure no longer.

Which is worse, disease, insanity, or the seeking of a mistress? The latter method is at least the normal, natural way out of the dilemma, even though not entirely endorsed by God or the moral law.

Cases? Their number is legion! Who is to blame? Who shall judge such men guilty of adultery? What is adultry? When is unlegalized indulgence adultery? Why did God give men desire, passion, love, all the possibilities of growth and happiness and then shut the door to all fulfillment? He never did. He did not bestow upon men all the blessings of temperament and then say: "Thou shalt not."

If the embrace of the woman who is his wife is denied him, other than because of illness or an unpreventable cause, if his wife refuses, who shall say that morality demands that he, the husband, makes the renunciation? What is the answer?

This is dangerous ground, even for discussion. It borders on free love, a doctrine we are utterly opposed to with all the force of our being. Free love, promiscuity and licenses has nothing to do with the Laws, of God and the right use of the creative function; absolutely nothing. But every phase of the problem - use, non-use, and abuse - all must be faced squarely and a solution found.

We are not giving consideration to the moral leper who is unsatisfied with the wife who gives him the full benefit of her love, yet continually seeks out other women to satisfy his lust. We have in mind only the man of honor, not the libertine; the man who learns through experience that normal sex indulgence is necessary for the preservation of his health and well being, not the debauchee whose creed is license.

What is to be done? There exists a remedy for every ill; a cure for every evil. The solution of this difficulty should be effected without delay; not only for the sake of the suffering, unhappy men and women, but for the sake of the children being born of such unions and denied the opportunity to develop normally.

What is the remedy? Are legislative enactments of actual help? Suppose the evidence is conclusive that either husband or wife fails, by choice, not as the result of ill-health or other natural cause, to fulfill their conjugal duty for a given length of time, and a divorce were granted on this basis, would this solve the problem? Suppose there were a family, children requiring the care of a father and mother? Would a Solomon have the answer?

To recapitulate: The correct exercise of sex is of supreme importance, not alone to the individual man and woman, but even more so to the world at large If a man attempts to live, or is compelled to live, the continent life for any length of time, the pool of creative energy becomes stagnant; a poison to his entire system; not only affecting both his health, and his mentality, but also his future progeny, if any. This, in turn, affects the economy of the world.

Non-use of the creative energy, like non-use of any other power, energy or potentiality, creates inertia and stagnation and these conditions, in the human organism, invite disease, decay and death. This is a direct violation of the laws of God who created ALL THINGS FOR USE.
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