Very few writers in the past have had the courage to speak plainly and openly of depravities which have caused the destruction of nations and which may be classified under the general term Babylonianism.

This entire subject, disgusting as it admittedly is, can no longer be avoided, because of the publication of several books by a physician. These books have had a wide circulation, teaching a practice so destructive that it quickly degrades and destroys body and Soul.

It is essential to quote verbatim from one of these books that we may comment on the inculcations of conjugal frauds, though we will eliminate abhorrent words and phrases as much as possible and substitute words less repulsive to sensitive minds.

"The hand of the opposite sex will produce effects on the genitals of the other which will not be produced in any other way. Thus a man may hold his glans in his own hand for a given length of time, longer or shorter, and no results will be effected, no secretions of the prostatic fluid will at once take place. This is true whether the glans be erect or detumescent (relaxed).

"If the wife will hold her husband's limp glans in her hand for but a few minutes, even though the organ remains limp. the flow of the prostatic fluid will take place. The same is true with regard to the husband's putting his hand on his wife's vulva. Should she hold her hand there, no pre-coital fluid would be secreted. With her husband's hand there, the flow would at once begin.

"This is a remarkable physical and psychological phenomenon, and it is one especially worthy of note. It is this fact that makes mutual masturbation far superior to auto-erotism. (1) A husband can satisfy a wife with his fingers, or a wife her husband with her hand, far better than either could bring herself or himself to the climax alone, This point is of great importance in considering many of the sex acts of husband and wife.
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(1) The author gives this practice its proper name. It is mutual pollution of the most degrading type and those who really love each other will not be guilty of such a practice. It is degrading to an unnameably degree and following this rite, those who practice it will not be able to look each other in the eyes. No language contains words sufficiently strong to condemn it properly.
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"As a rule, let the husband and wife do whatever their desire prompts or suggests, and just as they feel they desire. Only this, let all be in moderation. Carry nothing to excess!"

Neither Sodom, Gomorrah, or Babylon were guilty of a practice more damnable and destructive than this. Because of its apparent innocence it quickly seduces its victims and degrades them beyond rehabilitation before they are aware that the mutual fraud is destroying body and Soul. Like solitary vice, the practice readily becomes a habit, and once established is far more difficult to overcome than ordinary harlotry.

The great sin is not as much in the mutual practice itself, as in the Soul searing deed of "giving the seed unto Moloch." We have already treated at length the results of this act, illustrating it by the experience of the Israelites when on their way to the Promised Land; and it would seem that we, in what should be a sane and enlightened age, are to react the carnage of lust of which the ancient people were guilty, destroying body and soul.

Time and again we have emphasized the absolutely irrevocable law that the marriage rite may be indulged only for three purposes: Procreation, Recreation and REgeneration. It is Divinely forbidden for man and woman to seek gratification for self-satisfaction and pleasure alone. There must always be a deeper incentive as already pointed out; such as the mutual exchange of the magnetic-electric forces between those engaged in the rite, or for self-elevation and spiritualization.

The demonic practice of exterior sex satisfaction advocated by this author and others is solely for carnal purposes, therefore degrading and destructive to morality and spirituality. It is sense-gratification; condemned by God and every Creative Law. it quickly destroys moral sensibility, so that men and women guilty of this practice quickly degrade themselves below the animal plane; becoming shameless, unmoral creatures, lacking understanding of the true meaning of love and all that is related to it.

God in his primary creation acted wisely when he constituted man so that any abuse of the creative function would be detrimental to both mind and Soul. Any waste of the seminal fluid, whether by conjugal fraud or the advocated type of mutual masturbation, results in loss of brain and nerve force, ultimately resulting in some form of neurosis, and finally in the destruction of the Soul itself; eliminating even the possibility of life after death.

In truth, it is far easier for the legendary camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for two creatures in the human form, who mutually abuse and thereby degrade each other , to enter the kingdom known as heaven.

Admittedly, the wife's fondling of the genital organs of the husband may induce the prostatic fluids to flow, and likewise will the husband's touch release the pre-coital flow in the the woman, and for this reason it is to be avoided at all times, except possibly under certain circumstances as a preliminary to the marital rite in those of a more or less frigid nature.

Even so, great care should be exercised not to continue the fondling for too long a time, lest it results in weakening the strength of one or the other of the participants. This practice is permissable only as a preparation for the normal marital embrace.

We emphatically contradict that release of the prostatic fluid in the male, and the pre-coital lochia in the female, under such excitation is a remarkable physical phenomenon. Psychological it undoubtedly is, but not in the least mysterious.

The youth when sexually anhungered can, by the mere play of his imagination, see himself in relation with some fancied companion, and thereby induce the prostatic flow. Many girls and women have confessed to us being able to do likewise. It is therefore nothing more or less than the arousing of the physical creative desires by awakening the imaginative faculty to a degree necessary to produce the flow and consequent relaxation; it is self fraud. To continue our quotation:

"Let it be said further, that auto-erotism, self-spending, may be practiced by both men and women, to their healthful benefit,(2) when sexual excitement cannot be secured in any other way. It is only when carried to excess that such action is in any way harmful. The only danger is that the individual being alone and having all the means for self-gratification in his or her own hands, so to speak, it is quite possible to indulge in the action too freely, which, of course, leads to bad results. But the act itself is not bad. On the contrary, when kept within bounds, it is healthful and wholesome"(2)
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(2) We make the positive statement that this is never true. Health, that is normalcy, which means naturalness, can never be the result of un-naturalness. or of any act which destroys the very essence of life, the vital forces necessary for the maintenance or restoration of health. If the claim where correct, than all our natural laws would be in error. An act is either right or it is wrong; a wrong act cannot be productive of a righteous result.
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Clearly our learned author is illogical. Previously he made the statement that mutal masturbation was more desirable and pleasurable than solitary vice; now he tells us that the individual, having all the means at hand, may over-indulge. If it is true that mutually committing the crime - we say "committing the crime" advisedly - gives greater pleasure than the solitary act, and if self - spending - more correctly termed "self-pollution - is vice-forming, then how much more so is the intensely pleasure-giving, thoughdegrading, double criminal act?

Auto-erotism, so termed because even the habitues to it are ashamed to apply its rightly designated name - masturbation or self-pollution - a crime against the self and God. Every "fall" results from the "casting upon the ground" of millions of "seed," which would either help in the creation of anew being if properly consigned; in the recreation of the self-being if transmuted; or in the rejuvenation of the twain taking part in the exchange in the lawful manner.

Self-pollution is a crime because it sets at variance every creative law. All who are guilty of the pernicious practice are thereafter ashamed to look themselves squarely in the eyes by the aid of a mirror; as well as squarely face their fellow creatures.

It is only when continued for a length of time sufficient to break down the moral stamina, indicating likewise a loss of brain and Soul force, that the practitioner of solitary vice or mutual masturbation, becomes blase enough to face his own emaciated self and the world at large, without pangs of consience.

The practice is demoralizing even if indulged infrequently, because a certain amount of vital force is wasted without the possibility of recovery. It is giving something and receiving nothing, therefore robbery of the self, hence is self-defrauding. The more frequently practiced, the nearer man, or the woman, draws to the brink of moral degradation and physical imbecility. The act in itself is evil; it is debasing; unfitting every man who is guilty, to meet face to face any pure woman; not mentioning meeting the Giver of Life.

"There are many unmarried women, maiden ladies, and especially widows, who would greatly improve their health if they practiced some form of auto-erotism occasionally."

We personally place ourselves on record as voicing the sentiment, that if the sexual desire of any woman, whether maiden lady or widow, becomes so insistent that relief is actually necessary, then it would be far better for them, body and Soul, and the world at large, to follow the old religious practice of the maidens of India - veil their faces and sit before the temple - accepting the offer of the first man that passes.

Thus would the relief sought be obtained; seed would not be cast upon the ground; and they would receive in exchange an amount of vital magnetic force equal to that expended by their creative organism.

We do not advocate such method of seeking relief from the thraldom of passion, but we do maintain that if relief must be obtained, this would be a thousand-fold preferable to the seed-wasting, disease inducing, lust engendering practice of self-pollution as advocated.

"As a matter of fact, all boys masturbate, and many girls also.(3) Some authors claim that more than half of the women engaged in some form of auto-erotism, at some time in their lives, and the estimate is probably too low rather than too high. But unless they carry the act to excess, they are guilty of no wrong.(4) Not infrequently, they may make the act a means of great good to themselves. The sex organs are alive! They constantly secrete fluids that need to be excreted, as all other organs of the body do. They ought to be relieved, as their nature requires they should be."(5)
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(3) Even if this were true, the practice is not justified by any moral, health or spiritual law. Our author does not state how many have become degenerates, physical or mental weaklings as a result of the practice.
(4) If plural masturbation and the consequent pollution is not wrong, then there is no sex sin and boys and girls, as well as men and women, may commit all the abnormal practice they wish with no penalty attached.
Moreover the Bible and all its teachings may be discarded. The many writers who dwelt on the evils in various forms of degradation as the result of "casting the seed upon the ground," must be in error. It is equally certain that all writers opposing this view are not to be accepted as teaching "Divine Law to mankind. (5) This statement is true in fact, but the implications are false. There should be relief, but this must be by means of right use, not by ABUSE; by the application of natural laws; a correct and non-irritating, non-stimulating diet, exercise, transmutation of the forces, reabsorption into the blood stream and other methods both simple and effective. Nature will co-operate with those who will co-operate with nature.
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It is utterly false that all boys are guilty of self-pollution. Admittedly the majority are, ignorantly so, but this does not permit any man to teach that it is right to practice self-abuse.

Likewise it is true that many girls are victims of the habit, and with what results? We have known of women who indulged in the destructive practice before they were married, and after marriage preferred it to the natural creative embrace; allowing their husbands to caress and fondle them until their desires were fully aroused, then turning the cold shoulder to them; defrauding both themselves and their husbands by a recurrence to the old degrading habit. Can any one imagine anything more abominable than this? Yet this is what perverters of human virtues inculcate.

True, the sexual organism is an active entity; constantly secreting fluids that are life-giving; it being essential to health and well-being to keep these vital forces in circulation - this offers no excuse for abuse or the waste of the vital life forces - it is merely an indication that they should be naturally utilized; the method being either through a reabsorption into the circulation and a transmutation into physical, mental and Soul forces; or an exchange between the male and female.

God created the two, male and female created He them; He comprehended that neither one nor the other could possibly be sufficient unto the self, consequently He gave them the means to mate. Auto-erotism is a crime greater than murder or patricide, because the practice destroys the self; redemption then becomes impossible. We quote again:

"Sometimes, during the five days of menstruation, during which time the union of the organs is deemed not best, the wife can thus help her lover with her hand, to his delight and benefit."

We would inquire, what of the woman during this period? If he suffers, how much greater must be the longing on her part as she fondles him, but is herself denied, and what must be her reactions?

Undeniably there are men so strong in their virility that they keenly feel the deprivation of exercise during these few days, but if they are mentally developed in proportion to their manhood, and not merely male animals, they gladly suffer temporarily because the possibilities for love become so much greater and more intensified during the short period of waiting. As a matter of fact, we find that the true man looks forward to these temporary rests in the knowledge that there will be greater satisfaction to both after the interval of waiting.

If any man is so weak mentally and morally as to be unable to control his desires during the period of her cleansing, that he must be guilty of self-pollution, then it would be far better for him to avoid all association with the woman by sleeping in a separate bed, or that failing, do just as the animals in the field - disgustingly cohabiting during the lunar season, and be stamped with the mark of Cain. This would actually not be as grievous a sin as the one-sided auto-erotism.

Greece, once the most enlightened and cultured nation on the face of the earth, fell into decadence through the Cult of Sappho. Sappho, the poetess, taught her own peculiar practice of mutual masturbation and auto-erotism, and gradually these debaucheries became so universal that parents who foresaw the end of the race because of it, paid their maids to become the mothers of their sons' children; all to no avail, the prostitution of the creative ability had become so extended that the nation was doomed, possibly never to become great again.

Babylonia, one of the centers of the richest, proudest and most cultured races then on earth, met its doom through similar practices, the degradation finally becoming so great that the "Lord saw fit to bring destruction upon Babylon," Noted Divines preach on the destruction of Babylon and of the wickedness of its people, but are extremely reticent in mentioning what these sins really were, either ignorant or unmindful of the fact that right here in America cults that inculcate and practice these identical sins are daily becoming more numerous.

Perhaps the greater responsibility rests upon the church (this includes all denominations) for either ignoring this most vital subject, or teaching that sex itself is evil; a sin, and that as all men are born by means of it, ALL MEN ARE BORN IN SIN. It is high time they reversed themselves and taught the truth:

Sex is not an evil; something to hide, or of which to be ashamed, but a grandly sublime and glorious divine gift from the Creator to His creation, making them co-creators with Him. It is a means to health, strength, success and happiness; to the REjuvenation of the self-being and final Immortalization; "Mortality putting on Immortality." Through the means of sex man becomes, finally, like the gods, "knowing good from evil." At the same time, it teaches all mankind the penalty for abusing or degrading the creative function.

Sodom and Gomorrah were "destroyed by the Lord," i.e., BURNED THEMSELVES UP, by their own sexual excesses and abuses. Men became the lovers of their own sex; women preferred women; other destructive and degrading practices were legion. All of these are now openly advocated in America.

Greece, Egypt, Sodom and Gomorrah, Babylonia and Rome all trace the beginning of their decadence to ease and the result of debasing practices which had their inception in the inculcation and practice of demonical rites, such as advocated by our Dr. L. and others seeking the maximum of pleasure with the minimum of responsibility.

Multitudes, especially men and women who desire the pleasure of sexual excitement, but shun the responsibility of parentage, are easily led to believe there is no harm in such practices.

Gradually and insidiously it masters them. To one mode of procedure away from the natural, is added another until, at last, none satisfy and they are first, the victims, then the perpetrators, in inculcators, of the most hideous vices malicious minds can conceive.

Is America, the proud nation over which the Eagle takes its flight, to have a list of thousands of ultra-cultured people guilty of all the sex abuses catalogable, as had England during the world war?

Is America to begin the downward path toward doom, similar to that trod by Greece, Rome and other past great nations? From the present trend, judging by the contents of books and magazines dealing with sex life and sex practices, we are doomed to meet a similar fate.
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