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Useful links	Table of Contents THE SEXUAL INSTINCT The Sexual Instinct PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PREFACE CHAPTER I After the advent of puberty a neutral or indifferent attitude is impossible Reflect for a moment upon the enormous amount... A young man nowadays is expected to know... Suppose a youth does, through innocence... The mythical sorceress Circe first enchanted... For the forcible presentation of any subject it is of extreme... But with our highly organized civilization... For such as are appealed to by any consideration of religion... We see men who must continually be debased... If the penalties meted out to the impure are so many... It is not to be thought that all men who are impure suffer... At the very least, men should exhibit toward women that same... An analysis of the methods pursued by criminals... CHAPTER II Eace plays an important part; thus Jewesses, who belong to... A woman's faculties physical, moral... The most important occurrence of all, however... THE INFLUENCE OP THE REPRODUCTIVE... THE CARE OF THE PUBESCENT CHILD In those very frequent cases of pubescent insanity which... Through inheritance some children are congenitally lacking... THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS NUBILITY Winter kills most plants, which, generally speaking... CHAPTER III Billy men, who gain their information from the evil... Unquestionably the sexual instinct... Several most skilful venereal specialists have recently said... When a crop is sown the reaper gathers in much more... A gentleman recently related in the presence of the writer... THE COST IN TIME AND MONEY VENEREAL PATIENTS ARE TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES POISONOUS ANIMALS It is inconceivable that any should be so thoughtless... Some profligate men suffer from an impotence... On slight reflection any one will see that real love... But as we look at the present... Until our passions die and we again become neuters... If one has found some poor woman who lives... Of course, then, if a man poison his body and mind by sexual... It is absurd to maintain that the methods followed... Of all the varieties of 'wild oats', this sin of impurity... It's effects are liable to be transmitted to the third... The continent man, on the other hand, is ready at any time... The sufferings of the continent man... CHAPTER IV Though it is probably never true that a man's skull can contain... A Jewish rabbi poetically said... On the race-course the mares have been quite able to hold... The foregoing observations of course have their exceptions... TRUE MANLINESS IS DEPENDENT ON PURITY The essentials of manliness are conceded to be manifested by... Those men who argue that impurity is a necessity... Every menstrual period of the female and every nocturnal... The sensual gratification which a woman experiences in coition... A woman's true sphere is within the shelter of a home... In England, in 1885, the 'age of consent' was, by the influence of women... CHAPTER V The tendency of the human race is constantly toward... For this reason the sensible and becoming style of today gives... If a list were made of the gentlemen's names at almost... To such an extent do many actresses minister... THE NUDE AND THE VULGAR IMPURE LITERATURE Even the most respectable men and women, knowing not what they do... The mere fact that fashionable society sanctions a custom... CHAPTER VI When it is necessary for a girl to earn her own living... Love, flattery, vanity, irreligion, indolence, intemperance, necessity, seduction... Nymphomania will account for the occasional pitiable lapses... Since brothels are the very manufactories of lies... If a girl in this country becomes a mistress, she must consent... False protestations of affection lead many girls... Prostitution is very largely the effect of the unfortunate... The beauty of the Christian religion, when presented... The question for each individual man is, plainly, whether he shall... Cabmen sometimes are known to drive girls to wrong addresses... Among the prostitutes of Japan, and in most of the cities... In the ante-bellum days slaves were cared for by their masters... Sixty-five millions of dollars a year paid out for prostitution... There are those who contend that a consideration of these matters... The civilization of the future is somewhat protected... CHAPTER VII But while recognizing that sexual immorality means social degradation... THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION Dr. Mauriac, attending physician to the Hopital du Midi... Though we have stated with emphasis that it is quite... Many, many instances of the grossest cruelty... InIn Paris it is even worse If the advocates of the regulation system are in earnest about protecting... It must be particularly noticed that, where... In some of these countries illegitimacy is not considered... A distinguished English woman, Mrs. Josephine E. Butler... Alcoholic drinks should not be permitted to be sold... CHAPTER VIII Modern microscopical appliances have rendered it possible... The Essential Male Reproductive Element The semen is the most highly vitalized fluid in the body... In most fishes the ova are impregnated externally to the body... But Nature has not ventured to subordinate the control... At each menstrual period, one and sometimes two or three ova... Our lives, then, have their origin from two cells of intensely vitalized... The eggs of hens occasionally do not have... Thefimbrioe, or finger like processes of the Fallopian tube... The head and intermediate segment of the spermatozoid... The definitions of germ, embryo, and foetus are purely arbitrary... The blastoderm is the first step in the development... Part of the allantois Part of the allantois becomes the urinary bladder... At three months the embryo is about three and a half inches... Some would seek to maintain that the soul does... We believe that what we call "life" was not present The English law makes no distinction between... By this compromise it was agreed to consider the foetus... Public opinion and the courts have for a long time seemingly... Foeticide has been chronicled from the earliest times... Prevalence of the Grime Dr. W. A. Chandler, a physician of over thirty years' practice... The private spiritual and hygienic directions which are given... All the papers do not sin equally in this respect... However, the attending physicians would carefully consider... Whatever can be accomplished in leading the pregnant woman... What sort of man or woman is it to whom the woman applies... It is rare indeed to find a woman who will confess... But if the abortion becomes "inevitable", a different... After a long journey in a cab or street car or train, she reaches home... The wretched woman, having stooped to such an unnatural sin... A fair and just estimate of all the risks and dangers attendant... In rare cases it may be that she is ignorant of the true character... Descending in the scale of Nature to the lowest forms of animal life... To elaborate such a fine piece of machinery... CHAPTER IX Furthermore, the microbes, which are the cause of gonorrhoea... In every case where a woman is infected with gonorrhoea... The main source of gonorrhoea is coitus with a woman... Coitus per rectum sometimes conveys the disease to that region... These gonococci, like other bacteria, have a great affinity for aniline dyes... Climbing the Matterhorn, however, is far safer for the majority... During this prodromal stage sensitive patients usually exhibit... In those instances where the inflammation has not spread along... In this condition the virile organ becomes rigid and bent... By attention to all the rules of hygiene and by proper treatment... The accurate and systematic observation of the urine affords... In some cases the tenesmus, or ineffectual straining... The "man about town" often has a panacea for clap... Both the physician and the patient are far too ready to assume... Causes or Factors which Convert an Acute Attach into Chronic Gonorrhoea... This gleety discharge trickles away from what is termed... Since the nerve centre which presides over the sexual functions... In the terminal stages of a case of chronic gonorrhoea... The statements of this great specialist are supported by every surgeon... Certain of the complications are peculiar to each sex... Obviously the constantly accumulating urine, a waste-product... In the less severe forms of stricture only the mucous membrane... The Symptoms of Stricture Extravasation of urine, or a diffusion of urine into the surrounding... The chances of stricture increase very much with each... Lining the inside of each compartment of the scrotum is a thin serous membrane... Time of Onset Chronic hydrocele frequently persists after epididymitis or orchitis... The Prognosis Prostatoirhcea Even the most unobservant man, having normally no secretion... No specific microbe has been subjected to such furious opposition... Gonorrhoea in an acute form may be imparted to a woman by a man suffering... As previously stated, physicians do not as a rule see... In those cases where gonorrhoea has spread to the internal genital organs... Buboes An infant or child of either sex can as readily be... CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI This disease is remarkably common among the vicious... Infection by Direct Contact Until the characteristic signs of the secondary stage have... The causes of death in syphilis are many and varied... Transmission from Both Parents... The advice which the average physician might give... CHAPTER XII In such the mere influence of erotic thoughts and visions... Physical Effects Thus it is evident that masturbation is always harmful... Yet the evil tendencies may as a rule be counteracted... CHAPTER XIII No greater insult, indeed, could be offered than to ask him to give... Unhappily the masses are intellectually and esthetically impoverished Formal sexual teaching is mostly limited to single... CHAPTER IV Such compromises are but striking instances of anomalies... Surely it must bring a feeling of degradation to reflect... Only a sham manliness regards swearing and misapplied temper.. We cannot think highly of the numerous class of women... To him who has carnally worshipped his belly But the man who knowingly continues to throw his influence... And again the same author says, He that hath... Athletes are enjoined to be continent... Civilization is largely a warfare against natural impulses back to top
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