The problem of sex, like that of dietetics, is an individual one. Men differ from one another in their requirements. While different foods are necessary for different types of people, the general laws governing nutrition apply to the race as a whole. It is the same with the laws governing the creative function. These also have a general application; but the individual activity must be in harmony with the Law.
Some men store up an immense reserve of vital force. Even though more than the normal amount of vitality is expended in business and life in general, there is still a surplus that must be directed along other avenues. The most important outlet is by means of the marital rite in exchange for other forces so essential to mental and physical well-being. The unmarried naturally require a different method.
The Race REgeneration may be made certain, the laws of both God and nature, as they concern man's advancement physically, mentally AND SPIRITUALLY, must be fully understood and obeyed. Preconceived ideas must be exchanged for actual knowledge. Truth alone is acceptable as a guide.
This enigma of sex is one of the most important of all of man's problems, both individually and nationally, aye, universally. In married life normal marital relationship between man and wife is not only essential to the health of body and mind for the individuals directly concerned, but equally so for the procreation of a healthy, normal and symmetrically developed progeny, and hence important to the race of the future.
It is not possible for a man, after indulging in the marital rite for a considerable length of time, then, whether of his own free will or due to conditions over which he has no control, to live the continent life for a time and again return to the marital rite with the same degree of satisfaction as before. And why not?
Beginning with adolescence and continuing until Menopause, the creative laboratory (of the "seed" or spermatozoon) is continually active. The "seed" which is being constantly created or manufactured by this great laboratory is used not alone for the creation of new beings, as so many believe, or in exchange with the mate during the marital rite for the physical, mental and spiritual being, but also for the rebuilding of the self; the "seed" germs or spermatozoon often present in the marrow of the bones and in other parts of the body.
The laboratory is constantly active in manufacturing vital forces and if man, as a result of some mistaken notion, discontinues to furnish an outlet for these forces or seals up this "fountain of youth;" (it being recognized that this laboratory discontinues functioning at the end of youth), and if man refuses to keep the seminal fluid or vital forces in circulation, a form of stagnation sets in which acts adversely upon the entire being of the guilty one. To remain healthy and normal, it is essential that man's reproductive organism be kept active by normal, natural use. We still have the married in mind.
What of the feminine side of this important problem? In a medical practice of more than forty years, with experience in almost every part of the world and in the treatment of many thousands of women, we have never found a truly normal healthy woman, whose husband had become a foolish victim to the belief of continence if she also practiced continence. Without exception, the organism of the woman's generative system was diseased in one manner or another. Misplacement of the uterus, inflamed or congested ovaries and ulcerated cervix with Leucorrhea, were only part of her ailments.
The practice of continence among the married not only produces
sexual weakness and demoralizes the man, but also curses
the woman with untold ills.(1)
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(1) There are countless instances where, due to the illness of
husband and wife, continence for more or less lengthy periods
are necessary. In these instances a powerful psychological factor
enters, but even so, there are penalties to be paid for the infractions
of a positive Law.
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The man who persists in this unlawful (Biblically) practice will find a gradual decline in his general ability. His mind becomes less keen; there is inability to analyze minutely. He loses the incentive to plan and act, becoming mentally negative. Physically he soon drops below par; shortly nursing headaches; becoming nervous and irritable and acquires digestive weaknesses. With the suppression of sex activity there also appears a general inertia and the development of neurasthenic tendencies.
Such undesirable effects are only the beginning of the curses that trail in the wake of this destructive practice. Following the weakness of the mental faculties and the general inertia of the body, comes the debilitating influence on the power of reason and Will; culminating in the gradual disintegration of moral stamina. Such a condition is only one step removed from sex perversion.
Possibly the most heart-rending confession to which we are continually forced to listen come from those men, many still in their youth, who, through will-meaning intentions or modern Onanistic preachments, have attempted to live the continent life, only to find that when they finally awoke to their duties as husbands, they found themselves so weakened that they were unable to even commence performing their duties.
What was the natural consequence? A disillusioned wife either accusing her mate of expending his manly strength with some other woman, or seeking a lover capable of making up for the weakness displayed by the man whose duty and desire it should have been to love and embrace her.
The sex exercise of man is a natural function. Contrary to the same function and its exhibition in the animal, it is not alone for procreation, but for the regeneration of the whole man, mental and physical, as well as for the regeneration of his mate and companion. The great Creator had this in view when He gave man a woman as his daily companion.
To single out conclusive proof (that sexual exercise was not intended for one purpose only) from the mass of contradictory arguments and teachings, is not at all difficult.
Contrast the inclinations of the human with the animal. In the lower order, where instinct rules, rather than thought and the capadity to plan, the female seeks the male (note this law carefully) during her lunar season. At no other time does she indicate mating desire; nor does the male recognize her existence, as a female, before or after this period.
Had He who created man and animals established the identical laws to govern both alike, why did He implant in the two, separate creative instincts respecting the same function?
Why are animal and human inclinations radically and fundamentally different? Why is coition during the lunar period sought by the animal female, and absolutely repugnant to the human female?
As already noted, the female animal desires cohabitation during the season of reproduction; the male is attracted to her and sought out by her, at this special time.
It is radically different with the woman, the opposite in every respect; unclean during this period, the time of the menstrual flow, she is passive; normally the idea of embrace repulses her; if caresses awaken her desires she yet refuses all advances, unless she has become one of the rapidly increasing number of perverts. Should she desire conjugal exercise and should she conceive during the time of her uncleanliness, the result is a child marked in one way or another.
Unlike the animal, except in extraordinary cases, the woman exhibits affection and desire after, not during, her hours of abstinence. As a general rule, if she conceives shortly after this period, a strong child should be the result; and it may be stated in passing, that the greater the passion - love being one of the aspects if her desire - the stronger and more virile will be the offspring.
The possibility of conception decreases with the passing of the days following the moon's phase. After ten days there is a constantly lessening possibility of pregnancy; and it is not likely that she will be able to conceive until a day or so before the actual commencement of the next period.
Should conception result during the pre-lunar season, the child is liable to be deficient in vital force; the life-sex-energy stored up in the mother from the previous purification having become depleted and thus prohibiting her from bequeathing the full vitality which she herself does not possess.
There are, as a general rule, a certain number of days each month during which most women are incapable of conceiving, hence reproduction is impossible. Nevertheless, a woman may, during this period, greatly desire the conjugal embrace. If the laws of the animal world were given for the guidance of the human race, why was the mother of the race granted approximately fourteen sacred "open days" wherein free indulgence is not denied her? It is significant to note that the moment a female animal desires, she seeks satisfaction.
If continence is a sound doctrine, why should the female
of our specie be filled with unsatisfied longing more than one
half of her time? Revealed religion has enlightened God's
children that during this time man (and woman through him) may
contact the inhabitants of the Stellar spaces, and receive strength
and wisdom for his guidance.(2)
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(2) See Eulis,
Philosophical Publishing Company, Quakertown, Penna.
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It is apparent to all but the ignorant and narrow zealot that for man God instituted a wholly different creative and recreative law, than that for the animal. Men and women do find strength, health, renewal of youth, peace of mind and greater love, together with all powers and blessings, through obedience to the law of correct use. Sexual exercise is a source of incentive in both thought and action; the stronger the source of health, of happiness, and of all the benefits that belong to life.
When we speak in this broad emphatic manner, we have in mind rational indulgence, not license. Normal exercise and license are as far apart as the poles of the earth. One induces health, well-being and the possibility of success; the other is an incitant to disease, morbidness, perversion (quite often), and the destruction of all that is good, ending usually in an ignoble death.
The sensual desire should be controlled in the same manner as should all other appetites. A wise man eats only sufficiently to supply the requirements of the physical being. Too much food congests the entire system, producing the very opposite of the effect desired. The exercise of the creative function must be only to the degree conducive to health and vitality; a normal satisfaction always resulting in peace and contentment.
The question of temperament is of vast importance in dealing with the issue under consideration. Race REgeneration cannot become a science until we understand individual dispositions, and the good and bad characteristic combinations. Ignorance of the requirements of different temperaments is productive of sin and suffering. The mating of natures is quite as important a problem as the mating of bodies.
For example: A man of vital temperament, full of virility and force, ought never to marry a woman of a cold, unimaginative, phlegmatic nature. Such a union will make of existence a hell for both, and the children of the union are certain to be deficient mentally, and frequently afflicted with some physical weakness.
Careful selection of a fitting mate is of prime importance; race development depends upon right selection. A normal child can be expected only when pleasure, peace of mind and complete satisfaction attend the marriage rite and that is impossible where the twain are improperly mated.
As abnormal children often result through the mating of virile fathers and cold mothers, so also do they appear when the mother desires the embrace of the father twice a week, in harmony with the rules of Solomon, and is reluctantly granted the embrace once a fortnight. Here is such an instance:
Only a week before the foregoing paragraph was written, a woman, one whom we had cared for during a severe nervous affliction, now the mother of two children, and enceinte with the third, confessed to us that her severe attacks of nervous irritation, amounting to irrational action, were the direct result of a continuous desire for the embrace; this being granted her possibly once a week, or every two weeks, then only at her own request. What will be the result of such a conception? Has any man the right to become a father, who cannot, or will not (as in this case), righteously support the mother-to-be.
The teaching of, and obedience to, the doctrine of continence, will never regulate the tendencies of the age, nor succeed in reforming them. Quite the opposite; by the practice of such delusive instructions the very things we wish to regulate, or annihilate, are certain to become more firmly established.
Continence is, in itself, a from of perversion; only in the rarest instances can a man begin living the continent life without showing signs of weakness, nervousness, and, were he to confess the truth (many have), they would include mental distortions - the thoughts and imaginings leading to perversion. This is the first stage of deterioration; the second follows close on its heels; negation of all love, selfishness and, finally, degradation.
A normal unsatisfied appetite incites to a perversion of that desire without a single exception. Suppression of any natural longing, power or potency has never been a success and never can be. Nothing dies. When an attempt is made to suppress or destroy a normal tendency, we merely hold it in check for a limited time until a change has taken place in its activity and then, in some disguise, it manifests in a new sphere.
There is nothing higher on the physical plane than the normal; if it changes its material form, shape, or design, it becomes abnormal. Consequently, if a normal sex power is suppressed it becomes unnatural, the first step on the path to perversion.
Men, practicing continence, have been heard to justify their action by voicing the sentiment that if all men were like them, the red light districts in towns and cities would soon be extinct. This is seemingly true; but hides an untruth. It is not the men of normal sex practices that give life and support to vice, but those guilty of attempting to suppress normal desire, and those in an environment of life where normal action is denied them.
Thousands of men are starved in their love-expression because of the ignorance of their wives. These women have been taught that sex is degrading; that to acknowledge passion in themselves is a shameful admission. They discourage the sacred relationship, and the husbands, if normal, seek relief and understanding elsewhere - usually among the undesirables of the city's population, because they have too much respect and manhood to approach a girl or woman to whom they cannot offer honorable marriage in exchange for the favor.
Such women destroy their own love-nature and change what should be a happy home, into a mere lodging house; all because they deem themselves purer and holier than the Creator who made them to love and express their sex nature; giving them an organism wonderfully constructed for that purpose, but which they "bury," as did the Biblical character his talents.
There are countless men and women (some of them may possibly peruse these pages) who pride themselves on being adherents to the doctrine of continence, and why? Because, for one reason or another, they cannot be otherwise. They have expended their "inheritance" in riotous living. They have lost health, strength, and even desire; their "Divine" laboratory has ceased functioning. Of these, God has said: "the Soul that sinneth, it shall die."
There are narrow minded, bigoted men and women who, because of some bitter experience in life, have frozen every particle of heart and Soul out of themselves. They cannot love; all warmth has departed; they have lost all power of conjugal affection. They are often termed "vinegary-faced" and deserve the appellation; but these are to be deeply pitied.
Another class, capable of continence in the accepted meaning of the term, are neurotics and victims of religious excitement who haunt revival meetings. These are generally sexually diseased, and while in a state of hysteria, often unknown to themselves, they experience the orgasmal climax; leaving them relaxed, weak, but satisfied of their holiness.
These same people, usually women, are loudest in their praise of continence; the purity of their life while, they are in fact, the victims of self-satisfaction (unconscious self-abuse) brought about by religious fervor; a condition a thousand times worse than the exercise they deplore in others.
There are numerous types of men who consider woman of use only because of her capacity to gratify their debasing lusts. These cannot be persuaded that woman has legitimate desires and a right to experience the same pleasurable sensations that they crave.
These brutes are a curse and a blasphemy on God's holy creative institutions. They exercise the function solely for their own satisfaction and, having satisfied themselves, they leave their partner in a state of feverish excitement. God has pity for the victims of such ruthless ingrates, they suffer exceedingly through no fault of their own. A continual repetition of this destructive practice results in an internal irritation; inducing, in time, an abnormal condition of the creative organism.
This tantalizing state of affairs often acts as an incentive to the purest woman living to either indulge in solitary vices or become the mistress of the first real male with sense enough to appreciate her. Were we to be the arbiter in passing judgment on such an one, we would free her with a blessing and imprison the brute guilty of her downfall.
Women are not the only sufferers in this respect. There are countless men, affectionate and true of heart and nature, gifted with great virility; filled with love and honor for their wives, but who have almost every natural request refused. Their sense of honor and loathing of promiscuity prevents them from seeking satisfaction outside of their own fireside. Their normal desire for conjugal embrace, remaining unsatisfied, gradually brings about an irritation of the urinary canal. The glands become congested, then inflamed and swollen, and this brings about many cases of Prostatitis; is ruinous to health and affection. It destroys what was once an honest love, a normal God-given inclination.
There is a type of woman responsible for another phase of great evil. There are many good men, married to women who seek every blessing of married life, but refuse to accept the duties of motherhood, who desire, seek and even demand sexual satisfaction. They stipulate that the husband shall be with them for a time, then withdraw, a practice of either coitus interruptus, or of "casting the seed upon the ground."
They have probably no knowledge of the Diving edict against "giving any of the seed to Moloch," Lev. 20.2. i.e., the casting of the seed upon the ground in one manner or another; nevertheless they must pay the full penalty which the law exacts. Disease, dulling sensitivities, dislike and final disgust follow unfailingly. If continued, their very Souls are imperiled and a home that might have known happiness is turned into a conjugal hell.
The marital rite must be carried to a conclusion in a perfect manner. There is a right and a wrong way. No man is privileged to embrace a woman unless they both obey the sex law which God and nature instituted.
The law of reciprocity is positive. When the embrace is undertaken the twain must not separate until both participants are fully satisfied. When this fiat is faithfully obeyed, there is no loss of vital force by either of them. He absorbs the magnetic potency contained in her Lochia; she the vitalizing principle, the virile energy, which is the life of the seminal fluid. Thus is the essence of life, health and happiness exchanged between the two.
In our walks up and down the pathway of life we meet all classes. Now and then we find a woman who has passed through life without knowing either the benefits or pleasure of the sexual embrace; usually the by-product of an unfortunate love affair.
Bitterness and disappointment have turned her against love, or any expression of it as she has learned to know it. Such women are generally rabid in their denunciation of all sex relationship; condemning everything relating to it. These women are a proof of our contention that continence effects the mentality as well as the physical being of its adherents.
There are many men who became sexually diseased early in life and then fell victims to perversions. These men have never known the embrace with a womanly woman, who, in her love, offers all. These men, become incompetent, are loudest in their belief in continence; to the contempt of all who know the reason for their opinions.
We fearlessly make the assertion: There never was a healthy, normal, rightly-born man who had any inclination to live the continent life. We except men fired with holy religious zeal.
God decreed; "The beauty of woman is her hair; the
glory of man, his strength,"
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