CHAPTER III

CHAPTER III.

Pure Manhood.

We have searched books in vain for any description of a pure man. We expected that in works devoted exclusively to men, where the virginity of woman is so freely discussed, that the virgin man would have a descriptive mention, but in such books as in all others, we have failed to find any mention of the physical signs of manhood virginity. Such a neglect in works advocating either pure marriage or continence, is, to say the least, most remarkable. But a scientific and metaphysical writer cannot let the subject rest until investigation proves whether or not woman alone has signs of a virgin condition, whether such signs are not equally marked in man.

It would not need much thought to conclude that any portion of the body put to new use would be likely to be changed in some measure, and particularly a portion of such importance as the procreating organs.

The sings of virginity in woman is a topic that ll writers on private treatises, whether to men or women, always speak of and make a theme of the greatest importance in proving the chastity of women, as though man had any more right to expect to find a perfectly chaste wife, than woman had to find

a chaste husband, and not until within a few years has the world been very well enlightened upon the subject, and learned that even in some marriages there has been only external copulation yet conception has taken place and a hymen as perfect as is ever found, seen by the attending obstetrician.

On the other hand, after marriage when perfect copulation has occurred many times, the entrance of the vagina has contracted so rigidly when the act was repeated, that more effort was required to complete copulation than at the first act after marriage. These facts learned from the most reliable persons, prove that the copulation signs of chastity in woman are not to be relied upon, and by so much stress having been placed upon such signs, much of wretchedness has resulted to men for want of confidence in their wives' chastity, that has been cruelly thurst(sic) into the wives' faces, who were powerless to explain the difference between a delicate little membrane at the entrance of the vagina called the hymen, that has been forced to yield so soon after marriage, that the relaxing moisture of the parts has not prepared it to yield without great effort and pain. In after conditions where the system of woman has received all of that kind of excitement that it can bear, the muscles of the vagina contract and refuse to receive more, although the woman may still desire to gratify her husband even if not at the time congenial to her. Most

married men have had the hymen theory very much muddled by this after condition, at all periods in the lives of married women.

But very few men ever stop to consider their own inconsistency in demanding such purity from their wives, since, if they were themselves pure, they could not so readily doubt the chastity of women. It is strange that men can be so thoughtless as not to know that their own want of confidence in the maidenly purity of their wives, and their ability to judge of the same, would lead their wives to distrust them in their own youthful purity, for how can a young man judge of a wife's condition if he is not able to draw comparisons with a mistress.

Had not women studied the medical profession, and studied into this one-sided virtue business, the world might still have gone on without women ever knowing that the signs of man's virtue are unmistakable, although there are but few comparatively who are virtuous long enough to know themselves what are the sure signs of a virtuous man. We doubt not that by far the greater part of men in middle life and old age, believe that there are no signs of virtue in men, but that what is a sign, is undeveloped manhood, since they have not thought upon the subject enough to consider the time and cause of the physical change in the penis. Men make their wives believe "the power to make an erection and leave the franum

praeputii of the penis all next to the scrotum, is simply an omen of perfect manhood that is developed with time, and gradually grows away from its attachments. This is all false, but is a story generally told wives who are always contrasting the difference in the attachments of the cuticle on infants and the freedom from attachment of the same on their husbands, and hence the very natural question as to the time when the change takes place.

So firm and unyielding is the attachment, and so painful any attempt to free the same from near the head of the penis, that only under the greatest excitement, a number of times, will it tear away, and every time there will be some, more of less slight, blood discharged from the torn membranes.

Masturbation will not tear this away; sexual relations alone will do so, and when this unmistakable sign of man's virginity is generally understood, boys will, with proper training, make men that will honor manhood.

Young women who were not chaste have not dared to marry doctors, and the time has arrived when young men who are not chaste do not dare to marry doctors, for the same reasons that young women have had, and continue to have, and the time is not distant when young men will not dare to marry pure women anywhere, however young, for all women will be informed upon this subject.

A number of men living to be 30 years old and over, have married with unmistakable signs of having lived a perfectly pure life, and the harshness upon wedding nights that unchaste man have been guilty of, was impossible with them, because of the effects on their virginity not only, but that selfish reckless disregard of a wife, that unchaste men evince in the sexual relation is not known, but a tender regard is ever observable.

Where husband and wife are both virgins, the sexual relations on both sides will be moderate and mutual, and satisfactory, and soothing, for husband will not seek to gratify unreasonable desire, because he will not have such a desire. It will be weeks and perhaps months before the fullness of the relation is experienced by either, just as it is always some time before the fullness is reached by pure woman without regard to whom she has married.

Chaste women who marry unchaste men, are often three months in reaching and sometimes never reach a perfection of orgasm in sexual relation, owing to the fact of the husband having lost magnetic power by his unchastity, and thus unfitting himself to become a father for her children, by being unable to father the highest type of humanity that shall be superior to both parents which should result.

The loss of virginity in men, and the failure to

live chaste lives is more a misfortune than a fault, as is often the case with women.

Men are, when mere boys, allowed to go into all sorts of chance company with little or no regard as to the moral character of the same, with no warnings as to results on soul, and seldom a word about the results on the body. Parents, mothers as well as fathers, think because the public places so low an estimate upon the morals of men, that they have few if any responsibilities regarding the morals of their sons. They cannot bear babies and bring disgrace upon them, and they have little or no organized thought about sons bringing disgrace into other people's families. Few people look away beyond disgrace, that is but the opinion of other people; they do not get a sight of the wrongs to their bodies that are not immediately perceptible. The masses of men reason but little on the most important subjects relating to social life. They are contented to know the arts relating to the attainment of passional aims, and the ordinary preventives of deleterious results; but they do not even learn the plain lessons taught constantly: what will spoil the horse will spoil the man. The variety and excess of the horse causes him to be excited beyond control at the sight of a mare, no matter of how inferior breed and how poor condition she may be in at the time. And so men lose by variety the nice sense of selection, and the

power of control, and take any women they can that changes to be near, for like the horse, licentious thoughts are ever uppermost in their minds, and they conclude that there is not a woman in the world but that would pursue the same course as himself with her price paid. There are large numbers of men who cannot be made to believe that there is a single man or woman who live pure lives, because their own lives and their observations of others have led them to such a conclusion. One of the most common expressions form men when the subject of pure manhood is alluded to , is this: "Men are all about alike, some are more shrewd than others."

No man can ever tell how chilling such expressions and those of similar import are to pure women, who would love with a worshipful devotion the embodiment of pure manhood. But men cannot understand such chilling of the soul, until the best women make similar assertions about all other women--imagine such a condition ye good men, and see if, no matter what troubles you have braved like philosophers, see if, we repeat, you do not require all your brains to resist suicidal inclinations. Nothing else in life comes home to the soul with such crushing weight as the loss of confidence in sexual purity. Life seems to be robbed of the charm of all charms when the permanent friendship of uncompromising confidence has been destroyed. Only the skeleton of the

individual is left. What was thought to be genuine substance proves to be but a fleeting shadow in sunshine, that is lost all together in twilight and darkness. For with a disregard of pure selfhood, saved and retained for the partner of life, there is loss of so much of fineness of soul and body, power of soul and body grandness, that it would take volumes to write out all the same in a complete manner. The horse cannot have sexual relations with a cross balky mare, a big-legged mare, one of inferior size, inferior breed, or of any description and ever recover from the magnetic effect. The parts having contact may be immediately washed after the relation, but there is no power to take from him the mare's impress left upon him that will be transmitted sooner or later to his posterity. So marked is this that some of the colts from the best breed of mares, sired by the best breed of horses, have partaken of the dispositions and looks of mares that held sexual relations with the horse months and even years before. The male takes upon himself these magnetisms to a wonderful extent, indeed they become as much a part of him as are his feet or any other part. So is it with men, and they take up these magnetisms and retain them in their systems, and transmit them to posterity. Men may discard the women with whom they have had sexual relations but they will find , no matter how low or degraded

they may have been that their children will inherit the traits and often the looks of their mistresses.

This is a law that cannot be avoided but does not stop here. Like all other great laws, there are many deleterious effects that loom up in importance as we follow the various winding paths outside of the clearly defined one of rectitude.

The worst effects as regards such transmission comes upon men, because the life and power of the spermatozoa is magnetic in its unconscious life and power, and receives from the man the wonderful but as yet but partially understood impress upon the nerve centers, that time can never eradicate, and when this subject is fully understood by boys, they will cut off their right hands before they will thus wrong their own soul's tabernacle, and destroy the power to give to their posterity the sublime traits of their pure wives.

Prostitution will never be stopped until men are educated on these points, and it is because we so fully realize this that we have done what no other woman has dared to do, lectured and written to men exclusively on these important subjects.

But we have not yet reached the depths of the injury that promiscuous relationship brings. As soon as conception takes place, the blood of the spermatozoa begins to circulate in the veins of the wife, and the magnetic power of the spermatozoa

also diffuses itself into the magnetism of the wife. The circulation of both increases in strength and quantity the whole nine months and so the very elements of the unchaste, that the husband has gathered up in his former relationship with those unfortunate women, is circulating in the bones and muscles and nerves of his wife, through the arteries, veins and nerves, and she can never eradicate it from her system. Not only will the children inherit more of less of all these trains, but in thousands of instances have the once pure wives had so much of the prostitute elements, or thieving elements or drunken elements pervading their system from the husband inheritance, that they have eventually been overpowered by them, and the good originally in such wives has lost the controlling power in their whole organization.

That these effects on different people are varied according to the laws of the modification of laws, as yet but very imperfectly understood must be acceded to by all reasoners. Close observation tells us that these mysterious laws can be delved into still deeper than human eye has yet peered, and that from a knowledge of what is now already clear, we may yet solve unthought of problems called "unknowables."

There are those who can never be convinced of intricate facts unless the most striking evidences are witnessed, like a blonde woman whose blonde husband

has had sexual relations with a squaw or an African, becoming the mother of a genuine papoose, or a pure African child.

The law of modification often steps in and gives a specimen of a child where only the negro texture shows itself in the rigid curls of the flaxen hair, or of a complexion and hair that is midway in color.

The peculiar traits of character, disposition and predisposition are often more marked than the looks of the face, and not unfrequently the want of tenure of life is a telltale of no small moment, and the only easily discovered evidence of outraged law.

There is another depth regarding the influence of the magnetism of presence, that is still more difficult of explanation than even the mysterious contagious elements of disease, as seen in fevers, small pox, or epizootic, that could not have originated from any process of fear in the minds of horses, unless they have reasoning powers that they are supposed to be deficient in, or unless there is a power of mind in the human that so infused the animal hundreds of miles away, that the effects were the same as though there had actually been exposure to the disease.

We often feel most miserable in the presence of some people without any seeming reason, and feel happy in the presence of others, experiencing an indescribable something in regard to such presence, that we know not how to commence to investigate.

We feel it beyond our mental depth to reason it out, and like the mystery of mysteries that we every day behold in nature, we yield the point and plod along with a reluctant dismissal of the whole subject from our minds for the time, as the too barren results of such thoughts weary us, without convincing us that their solving is an utter impossibility. The deeper one delves into metaphysics the wider the field seems to expand.

Dr. Franklin touched the keynote of electricity for the business world; but who shall be able to so trace humanities' magetic power, and so touch its key, that the masses shall heed its moral warnings?

The world must be made better by understanding the intricate laws of human development in body and in mind. For the masses to comprehend the physical effects of unchastity, outside of the production of illegitimate children or of venereal diseases, but little reading is necessary if plain language is used. But the wonderful effect upon the mind requires such deep methodical thought, that but few minds are accustomed to habits of clear arrangement of their thoughts so that they could express themselves intelligently on subjects that must reach the deepest convolutions of the brain.

As the sexual relation calls for the most intense nerve excitement, and the strongest and most powerful and concentrated emotions, so does it as surely

call forth and receive the brain impressions, that in spite of all other considerations, are lasting and transmissable. And those who associate in the sexual relation with the low, the ignorant, the vile, the fickle, the unmethodical in thought, the undeveloped in mind, cannot avert the law of effects upon themselves that they are powerless to throw off.

Many a man of brilliant talents and fine culture has become a mere cypher in the world from this cause. Many that have attained intellectual eminence have failed to become the bright stars they might have been, but for this cause.

It is lamentable that the incentives to pure manhood are so few. Those who are the honorable exceptions in society with all kinds of codes of honor, are not the favored men of the time, because they are so rare that women do not know how to treat them. And so they look about them and see the worst rakes present the favorite beau of the evening with the purest women of all ages.

Such is the demeanor of a pure man that the women are not aware of his purity, only in exceptional instances. The purest of women with their general association with men not morally sound, do not appear the same women used to, when there was less corruption among men. Men themselves do not appear the same, if we can credit those who lived a half a century since as young men and maidens.

But let us hope that we shall see no deeper degradation of sex, but that with knowledge shall come rapid strides towards a pure manhood, with those who have ignorantly degraded themselves, and that knowledge shall be so diffused that the young men shall all grow up as pure as they could wish the young women to be that they shall sometime marry.