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CHAPTER VII.

The idea about hymens that once broken are certain signs of maidenly purity, originated with brutal men, who assumed the marital privileges as rights, and instead of treating wives tenderly and gaining their confidence, and waiting until their own nature called for the sexual relation through their love of motherhood, and thus lubricating the vagina, and relaxing the muscular tissues at the entrance, have by brute force accomplished copulation, breaking blood vessels at the entrance of the vagina, and so injuring the uterus by such savageness that the whole woman nature so revolts that the menses flow as a temporary protection to her.

Precisely the same result follows at all periods in woman's life, even after she has borne children. Indeed, the vagina has been known to contract more tightly but an hour after repeated copulative acts, than it was before the first act after marriage. The whole system seems to spend its power to protect against such excess, in its efforts to effectually close the vagina, to prevent more injury to the whole nerve system, that is sure to follow, no matter how willing in mind, or even anxious a woman may be to yield

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to men's demands, for the sake of an expected retaining of his affection, or for other reasons.

This condition has confounded men, and make them think that women were designedly unaccommodating not only, but that they could assume the role of the virgin at will, and seem never to have copulated, and so they lose confidence in their having been maidenly pure.

The virgin wife who is compelled to yield to copulation before she is herself prepared for it by the natural lubrications, has her nerves so shocked that it frequently occurs that months pass before she is really willing to yield to the relation. There are instances where the relation is never desired, because of a disgust that women feel for husbands that never act as though wives had any rights but to yield to their demands, and so the relation instead of being a tender binding one, is an irritating, separating one, that fearfully injures his whole nervous system as well as hers. For a women cannot have an impaired nervous organization without a husband suffering in his nerves by his having contact with her.

His ignorance of the cause of many ailments that result from such relationships under such conditions, weigh nothing in preventing the effects.

Children are often born of mothers who have never had one sexual relation that has been other than a

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matter of toleration. The ovum when in a proper condition, meeting the matured spermatozoa the work of conception must result when such germ and sperm cells meet. So great is the affinity of an ovum and a spermatozoa that conception has taken place with whatever of the hymen there ever was in a perfect condition, as the following will show.

A couple married under circumstances not favorable to having children for a number of years. No effort was made to have perfect copulation, and not until there were unmistakable signs of accouchment, would either of the couple believe an enceinte condition possible. The attending accoucher upon examination declared that the most perfect hymen existed, and the woman must certainly be afflicted with a tumor that was about to be expelled , with probably fatal results from hemorrhage. To the surprise of all a find child was born after a few hours labor, thus greatly muddling the brains of those who are so sure of maidenly purity by physical signs. Few people ever expect to keep girls pure through other motives than fear of results and exposures; but those who have no higher and nobler restraints, are unfitted for desirable motherhood, reliable wives, and the permanency of the friendship of pure marriage.

Men with their greater physical strength, ought to despise the very idea of taking any advantage of women who know so little about their own

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nature, and so much less about the strength of men excited by tobacco, and stimulating drinks. A man is less guilty who commits a murder, than the one who takes from woman a consciousness of her womanly purity. And he had better be dead than to carry on his soul the marks of his own degredation, to say nothing of the remembrance of the degredation of his victims. This will be fore fully explained in the chapter on the language of the nerves, where the matter of the evidence of a well marked hymen, (which very seldom exists,) will sink almost into nothingness when compared with the deep metaphysical truths that are of immensurable importance.

It has been the experience of girls that have been married before the age of puberty or very soon after, that the sexual relation before the body was matured, was at first exceedingly painful, and such are firm believers in the humbug hymen theory, which as we have stated is very seldom found to exist, although the story is generally believed by both men and women, and is kept up to frighten girls out of vice--with what success, the terrible condition of society attests, and ever will attest until better motives for chastity are taught.