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Chapter I Feminine Beauty And What It Signifies

Tribute that the world pays'to beautiful girls — The great Creator's noblest and best works — The beauty of perfection — A perfect girl — The relation of beauty to feminine perfection — How a beautiful face and figure are developed — Mental beauty — The real secret of physical beauty — Practical conclusions. - 13-18

Chapter II Sexuality And Its Relation To Human Beauty And Perfection

Who are the best men and women? — Sexuality — Influence and purpose of sex — Well sexed men and women — Sexuality universally admired — The signs of sexuality an important part of feminine beauty — Appreciation bestowed upon all well sexed ladies — Feminity in women always admired — Power and value of beauty — Beauty as an indication of superiority — How sexuality modifies the entire body and mind* .... 19-26

Chapter III Importance Of A Correct Understanding Of Nature's Sexual Laws

Too much sexual energy and activity — Disasters wrought by uncontrolled sexuality — Why the sexual energies are so frequently misdirected — Erroneous opinions regardiv CONTENTS

ing the sexual organs — Degrading influences of ignorance — Notions of the ignorant regarding sexuality — Opinions of the more intelligent and refined — Rights of our young people — Health impaired and educational opportunities wasted — Nature's rewards and penalties — Helpfulness to be derived from the truth — Superiority in mental, physical and sexual poise — The kind of an angel a man likes. 27-36

Chapter IV Relation Of The Sexual Organs To The Rest Of The Body

Nature's method of perpetuating life — Different plans for reproducing different forms of life — Hermaphrodites — Functions of male and female reproductive organs — Eggs and seeds — Simple and complicated organs of reproduction — Various names applied to the sexual organs — Influence exerted by the sexual organs — Advantages derived from a superior reproductive system — A frequent mistake of young girls — Girls that do not understand themselves — Those who have never loved and those who have loved and lost — How the sexes influence each other — The women that are most loved — Ladies who cannot become mothers — Unmarried girls — Effects of sexual abuse — Summary of conclusions from facts already considered. - 37-48

Chapter V

Location of sexual organs, internal and external — Names of the female sexual organs — The womb ; its function — Size and weight of the womb — What the womb looks like ; its shape and dimensions further described — The os or mouth of the womb — The womb's location in the body — The vagina — Ovaries — How the ova get into the womb— Fallopian tubes— The hymen— The hymen as an evidence of chastity — Organs both internal and external —External organs ; the vulva — The mons Veneris — The external lips — The internal lips — The clitoris. 49-66

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Chapter VI

What the male contributes in reproduction — The testicles — A test of virility — Glands — A test of an organ's importance — Seminal cells and tubes — The scrotum — The seminal vessels. ------ 67-74

Chapter VII How Plant Reproduction Begins In Blossoms

Male and female plants — Sexual organs of plants— Stamens and pistils — Pollen — Fertilization of flowers — Structure of flowers — Names of the different parts of a flower — Analysi of the morning glory — Stamens analyzed ; the anther — Pistils analyzed ; the ovary and stigma — A diagram — Parts composing a flower — Pollen magnified — Process of fertilization — A feature common to all flowers — Perfect flowers and those incomplete — Different methods by which flowers are fertilized — Male and female strawberries — Use of the honey, odor and bright color of flowers — Plan of fertilization in common field corn — How different varieties of corn are mixed in fertilization — Necessity of the humble bees in fertilizing clover — Fertilization of night-blooming flowers. - 75-88

Chapter VIII Seeds And Eggs And Their Functions In Reproduction

What a seed really is — The germ — How to examine a germ — How the germ develops into a plant — A brief review — Some of Nature's plans for sowing her seeds — What an egg really is — Closeness of the similarity between eggs and seeds — The germinal spot — The development and depositing of eggs — How to examine the germinal spot — Hatching of fishes — Different methods by which eggs are fertilized — Requirements for hatching the eggs of warm blooded animals. ----- 89-100 vi CONTENTS

Chapter IX Reproduction In The Human Family

Success in human reproduction demanded by human economies — Profusion of seeds produced by a single plant — Nature's policy of reproduction in the lower forms of life, reversed in the higher — Bxtensive destruction of blossoms and seeds and the eggs of the lowest animals — Better protection of birds' eggs and young birds — Still better protection of the eggs and young of the higher animals — How the human embryo and baby are protected best of all — Proper food insured to the human baby — How a human baby is created — Semen more fully described — The spermatozoa — Meeting of the spermatozoa and ova — Impregnation — Organ in which the spermatozoa and ova develop into a baby — Smallness of human ova explained — Naval cord and placenta or afterbirth — How the embryo is nourished by the pure blood of the mother — Perfection of the plans of human reproduction — When impregnation may occur — Superiority of the plans for protecting the ova — How the protection of the spermatozoa is insured — Protection insured to the unborn babe — Evidence of a master mind shown in the plans of reproduction. ... - 101-116

Chapter X

nature's plans for insuring the most babies from the best parents

Life of annual plants ended with the ripening of their seeds — Forces of the trees concentrated in reproduction — How plants exert every effort to reproduce — How the more vigorous plants crowd out the weaker — Why inferior flowers become extinct while the brighter and prettier thrive — Why the best animals perpetuatejihe species — Other reasons why the best animals beget and bear the most offspring — Why the best animals are mated first — How the stronger males prevent the weaker from reproducing — The best babies possible insured by Nature's laws — Little birds and their rivals in mating —How song birds and those of brilliant plumage win their mates — Mating among wild animals — How the same laws operate in the human family. - 1 17-128

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Chapter XI Influence Of Sexuality Upon The Popularity Of Men And Women

A key to the hearts of both sexes — Secret of popularity examined — The law of popularity — What the pages of history reveal — What determines who shall be most popular with you — Sexuality's immediate relation to popularity — What men and women most admire in each other — Facts that illustrate these laws — What attracts the sexes to each other — An instinctive desire to reproduce^ — An instinctive desire to produce the best offspring possible — What the sexes admire in each other most of all — Desires only instinctive ; not intellectual — The real attraction between the sexes, and what most people think it is — Physical developments that men most admire in women and why — A fine bust and what it signifies — Mental qualities most admired in women and why — The kind of men that make the best husbands — Physical developments of men that women most admire and why — Mental characteristics that women most admire in men and why — Physical figures of the man and woman compared — Masculine women and effeminate men — Excellent sexuality a characteristic o f all handsome men and beautiful women.

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Chapter XII Amativeness And Its Influence Upon

CHARACTER, CONDUCT, PERSONAL APPEARANCE

AND POPULARITY

The incentive that induces the sexes to be agreeable and attractive to each other — Location of the organ of amativeness in the brain and how to estimate its strength — Why the cerebellum is a measure of amativeness and reproductive efficiency — Character and disposition of persons with large amativeness — Strength of amativeness indicated by the chin — Strength and activity of the affections indicated by the lips — State of the affections indicated by biting the lips — Position that the head often assumes when strong affections are active — Gallantry a viii CONTENTS

result of strong and active amativeness — How amativeness affects the politeness and general conduct of ladies towards gentlemen — Relation of amativeness to muscular power and endurance — Relation of amativeness to mental greatness — These laws illustrated by all prominent and popular men and women — Amativeness and sexuality not all, but an exceedingly important part of both beauty and popularity — Recapitulation. 143-154

Chapter XIII Masturbation — The Philosophy Of Its Evil Results

The mind as a factor in this vice — Masturbation slow but certain suicide — Injurious influence of masturbator's mental attitudes — Masturbation destructive to all that sexuality builds — Effects similar to those produced by castration — Destructive to sexuality — Nervous wreck — The act absolutely unnatural and self-destroying — Enslavement of its victim — Abnormal excitability — Drifting toward certain destruction — Loss of will power — The victim usually not the one most censurable — Bad associates — Knowledge a safeguard. - - 155-166

Chapter XIV Signs And Symptoms That Expose The Masturbator's Guilt

Congestion in the sexual organs — Sensitive, feverish, uncomfortable, irritable condition of sexual organs — The brain and all other parts of body, improverished — Weak and sickly destroyed most quickly — Development of organs, prevented — Timidity, bashfulness and lack of self-possession — Avoid and shrink form opposite sex — Destruction of qualities that render the sexes attractive to each other — Extreme debility — Pimples upon the face — Nerves of sensation blunted — Brain dull and deadened — Mind unresponsive, weak, dejected, melancholy — Sleep unrefreshing — Self-reproach, remorse, and misery unspeakable — Insanity — Loss of tone in all parts of body — Less ability to resist cold and all epidemics — Still hope for all who can stop, now. - 167-176

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Chapter XV Sexual Excesses — Chastity — Marriage

Creater liability to disease — Motherhood — Chastity — Obligation of husband — Certainty regarding who is a bab}-'s father, insured only by wife's chastity — The world's estimate of chastity — A girl's crowning virtue — A double standard of morals and the reasons therefor — Unwedded motherhood — The father suffers only in morals — The only safe course — What common sense demands — Prudence — Do not understand their own character — An injustice to men — Injustice to women — A more sensible view — Picnics, socials and parties — School girls and boys — Passion — A physician's experience — Secret thoughts and feelings — Only half in earnest — Each about equally responsible. - - . - - 177-194

Chapter XVI Common Sense Treatment For Sexual Wrongs

Sexual passion — Relation between sexual passion and intellect — The animal part of man and the higher faculties — Shall we endeavor to kill animal passions or to wisely direct them? — Methods that do not require a physician — Treatment, both mental and physical — Starting on the road to recovery — Thoughts and feelings — Remove the cause — Cleanliness — Sitz bath — When the bath is most beneficial — A full bath — Diet — Nourishment without stimulation — Safeguards — Secret thoughts — Physical culture — Relation of passion to physical and mental effort — The whole matter in a nut shell — Associates — Possibilities of a single thought — Precautions that help to avoid sexual excitation — A noble life purpose — Wanted — Demand for superior women — Importance of hygienic measures — Caution against a possible mistake — Sexuality, not sexual passion — How sexuality may be developed — Excessive passion, depleting and exhausting — Avoid the very beginning of danger — The reason that some patients fail — Impossibility of deceiving nature — Superb womanhood — Accumulated power, energy and efficiency. ------ 195-220

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The Womb Before Impregnation

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Right Half of Female Pelvis

Womb, Ovaries and Fallopian Tubes

Ovary and Fallopian Tube

Female Reproductive System

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Stamens and Pistil - ii

Pollen Magnified

Fertilization

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Reproductive Organs of a Hen

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The Doctor s Plain Talk

TO

Young Women

Chapter I Feminine Beauty And What It Signifies

TRIBUTE THAT THE WORLD PAYS TO BEAUTIFUL GIRLS

All the world loves a beautiful girl. In all countries and in all climes she is sought after, courted and admired. Kings, Emperors, Presidents and men in obscurity, ladies of renown and those in humble stations, each, and all, admire feminine beauty and perfection. Warriors, statesmen, merchants, and laborers vie with each other in paying homage to a girl that is beautiful. They are all ever ready to show her a polite attention or to perform a gallant service for her.

Whenever she appears at an evening party, a picnic, church, or other social gathering, she is a center of attraction and admiration.

Her photograph is published in magazines and newspapers, and she is admired by those whom she has never met, as well as by her most intimate friends.

THE GREAT CREATOR'S NOBLEST AND BEST WORKS

Throughout the whole world, the only recipient of greater attention or a higher degree of admiration, is a beautiful woman. And a beautiful woman is a beautiful girl matured and perfected.

Perfect men and women are the great Creator's higest and noblest works. And boys and girls are men and women undeveloped.

THE BEAUTY OF PERFECTION

We all instinctively admire the beauty of perfection. In everything we admire and prize the best — the highest mountains, the greenest fields, the greatest cataract, the most gorgeous sun-set, the fastest horse, the -heaviest cattle, the most beautiful'and fragrant flowers, the finest paintings, the largest trees, and the best machinery, are all objects of admiration the world over. And no matter what may be the language that the observer speaks, he usually expresses his admiration in a natural language, as well as in his native tongue,

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and he is readily understood, even by those who cannot interpret his words.

A PERFECT GIRL

The best in both nature and art is always admired, and it is almost always considered beautiful.

As the best men and women are the highest and noblest of all Nature's great works, it is they that receive the very highest degree of admiration. As a perfect girl has no superior in all the world except a perfect woman, it is only a perfect woman that is the recipient of a higher degree of admiration.

THE RELATION OF BEAUTY TO FEMININE PERFECTION

Beauty is an essential element of feminine perfection. No woman, young or old, can be perfect and not be beautiful. It does not follow, however, that every beautiful girl is perfect. On the contrary, many of them are very far from perfection. And while beauty is an element essential to perfection, it is not the only one. We have all known beautiful girls that possesed very grave faults — faults that absolutely prevented these fair ones from even approximating perfection. And when we investigate the matter closely, we find that what we really admire, is perfection; and that beauty is universally admired because it is a part of perfection. The high tribute paid to feminine beauty is simply an illustration of the great appreciation that the world bestows upon a single element of feminine superiority.

HOW A BEAUTIFUL FACE AND FIGURE ARE DEVELOPED

Beauty, however, is a quality of no small significance. And those who have asserted that it is but " skin deep," have voiced a mistake. Beauty, on the contrary, extends to the very innermost recesses of the body. Every part and every tissue is characterized by the same degree of beauty and superiority. And it does not stop even there, but it extends to the very soul and permeates even the mind. Whenever the body is a beautiful one, this alone is positive proof that the mind is also beautiful, because the mind builds the body and it always builds a body that corresponds with itself. When the mind is a beautiful one, it builds a body of equal beauty. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." No more truthful words were ever spoken. The mind is really the man. And the body is a workshop, tools or machinery that the mind constructs for the purpose of executing its desires. Our thoughts, feelings, emotions and desires, determine the qualities of our bodies. The kind of a body we have, depends upon the kind of thoughts we think, together with our feelings, desires, emotions and passions.

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MENTAL BEAUTY

A beautiful girl has a beautiful mind, and she has been thinking beautiful thoughts. And she is beautiful because her mind is beautiful. And the degree of her physical beauty indicates the degree of her mental beauty. The degree of her physical perfection indicates the degree of perfection in the mind that built the physique.

THE REAL SECRET OF PHYSICAL BEAUTY

The mind and body always correspond with each other. Hence, to improve our bodies, we must first improve our minds. Elevate the character of the thoughts we think, and our bodies will be correspondingly beautified. To increase the utility of our living temples, and to enhance their beauty, there must first be an acquisition of power and an increased beauty in the conceptions of the architects that plan them and supervise their construction and rebuilding.

PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS

A beautiful girl, then, is the product of a beautiful mind. And the degree of her physical beauty corresponds with the degree of beauty in her mental ideals. It corresponds with her mental conceptions, her thoughts, feelings, emotions, passions, appetites and desires. All beautiful girls, are in some respects at least, superior girls. And they are universally admired because their beauty is instinctively recognized as evidence of this superiority. The nearness of a girl's approach to physical perfection, is a measure of her nearness to mental perfection. The fact that a girl is nearly perfect in physique, is prima facie evidence that she is nearly perfect in mind.

But what is perfection? Who is the perfect man? And who, the perfect woman? And in what does their perfection consist?

These questions will be discussed in the next chapter.

Chapter II Sexuality And Its Relation To Human Beauty And Perfection

WHO ARE THE BEST MEN AND WOMEN?

The best men and women are those who are best qualified to execute all that Nature requires of perfect men and perfect women. The best men and women are strong and vigorous in every department of body and mind. They enjoy the best of health and are well balanced, evenly developed and harmonious. A part of their faculties and organs are not so strong and active that they are exercised beyond the point of endurance, and are consequently exhausted, while other faculties and organs are so weak that they are hardly exercised at all, thus leaving these people incomplete in a part of the essentials of a well rounded out and perfect body and mind.

On the contrary, perfect men and women have perfect health and activity in every department of their bodies and minds. No part of the body or mind is over strong or active, and no part is weak and inactive. Every part is complete and it fully performs all of its functions, but it is not over large and strong,.

and it does not overpower nor detract from any other part.

SEXUALITY

One of the essentials of perfect manhood, is perfect fatherhood. And one of the essentials of perfect womanhood, is perfect motherhood.

Perfect men and women, then, are, or may be, perfect fathers and mothers. But they are also perfect in every other respect.

Perfection, however, is exceedingly rare. Perhaps there never was a perfect man nor a perfect woman. The best, therefore, are those who most nearly approach perfection. But it is not our purpose in this book to discuss all elements of human superiority. Our principal object is the elucidation of but one. And when others are discussed, it will be but incidentally and for the purpose of further elucidating this one.

The one to which we refer, is that which distinguishes man from woman. It is what enables a man to become a father, and a woman to become a mother. It is that in which man differs from woman. It is what renders man, masculine, and woman, feminine. It is the masculine part of men, and the feminine part of women. It is the sex.

INFLUENCE AND PURPOSE OP SEX

Sex modifies every department of both body and

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mind. A masculine body is dominated by a masculine mind, and a feminine body, by a feminine mind. A masculine body is developed for the purpose of executing the desires of a masculine mind. And a feminine body for executing the desires of a feminine mind.

WELL SEXED MEN AND WOMEN

One of the desires of a masculine mind, is fatherhood. And it developes a body qualified to gratify this desire. Motherhood is one of the important desires of a feminine mind, and it developes a body qualified to gratify this desire. Parenthood is one of the most important objects of all animal life. And the better an animal can perform this office, the better is the animal. And in order that human beings, or any other animals, may be superior parents, the masculine characteristics must be strong in the males, and the feminine characteristics, strong in the females. In other words, the sex in each must be well developed. The man must be large and strong in those organs and qualities possessed by men and not by women. And the woman must be large and strong in those organs and qualities possessed by women and not by men. Such are said to be well sexed. And they are universally admired.

SEXUALITY UNIVERSALLY ADMIRED

Other things being equal, the better a person is sexed, the more nearly is that person perfect, and the more admired.

It is the masculine characteristics that ladies admire in men, and the feminine characteristics that men admire in women, and so highly prize in a sweetheart or wife. Eliminate the feminine characteristics from a woman, and no man would be attracted to her. No man would care any more for her society than for the society of a man.

THE SIGNS OP SEXUALITY AN IMPORTANT PART OF FEMININE BEAUTY

The men and women who are popular, and who are considered beautiful, are well sexed. Beautiful society ladies, actresses and singers, whose photographs are exhibited in our magazines and newspapers, are all well sexed. The indications of sex in a woman's face are a part of her beauty. With the sexual characteristics eliminated, a woman could not even approach perfection. The signs of excellent sexuality could not appear in her face and figure, and nobody would consider her beautiful. She would be incomplete and very imperfect, and nobody admires imperfections. The signs of sexuality in the face and figure, or the lack of them, cannot be hidden. Consequently, all who are well sexed, will exhibit the beauty that is always given by this valuable attribute. And all those who are not

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well sexed, can not conceal the deficiencies and homliness resulting from a lack of this quality.

APPRECIATION BESTOWED UPON ALL WELL SEXED LADIES

To be sure, most people have no intellectual understanding of what these signs mean. They simply know that they like the appearance of certain ladies, and that they do not like the appearance of others. But all who investigate and understand these principles, know that one of the things that is considered beautiful, and that is universally admired, is the combination of signs indicating a normal, healthful and vigorous sexuality. It matters not how nearly perfect a woman may be in all other attributes, if she does not exhibit the signs of being well sexed, she will be totally debarred from a contest for public appreciation in a competition with ladies equal to her in other respects, and who have the additional advantage of being well sexed.

FEMININITY IN WOMEN ALWAYS ADMIRED

If she is well sexed, she will exhibit superior femininity, and that is what people admire in women. It is the most masculine men and the most feminine women that are best qualified to execute all that Nature expects of human beings. It is they who are most nearly perfect, and therefore most highly admired, because the world admires perfection.

The world does not admire an effeminate man, nor a masculine woman. Even with boys and girls this same principle applies. It is not the timid, cowardly, girlish boy that is a favorite, nor the bold, boyish girl. The schoolmates of such boys and girls treat them with contempt, pity, indifference or ridicule. It is the brave, self-reliant, positive and manly boy that is admired, and it is the girl who exhibits the qualities that are strictly feminine. Femininity, however, does not imply weakness and inefficiency.

POWER AND VALUE OF BEAUTY

A great deal has been said in regard to the dangers of beauty and also in regard to the faults of beautiful girls and women. But most of these criticisms are unjust and have been made by those who did not fully understand the subject. While beauty is a power that has sometimes been used by dangerous and designing women for the purpose of gaining some selfish end, it is not the beauty that should be censured in such in stances, but the objectionable qualities with which it is associated. And even these instances illustrate beauty's power and worth.

And when the beauty of some innocent and unsuspecting girl has been the temptation that resulted in her

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downfall, it is not the beauty that should be condemned, hut the ignorance, imprudence, or deficiencies in other qualities that rendered her downfall possible. And also the lack of balance and discretion in the one that caused her misfortune. And instead of deprecating the physical beauty of these fair but unbalanced girls, a real and valuable service may be rendered by assisting them to develop equal superiority in all other desirable attributes. Let us not attempt to tear down or detract from any good quality because it over shadows or overbalances other good qualities that are not strong enough. On the contrary, let us endeavor to develop sufficient strength in all good qualities.

BEAUTY AS AN INDICATION OF SUPERIORITY

' Whatever may be said to the discredit of physical beauty, it will ever remain an indication of superiority. And however thoroughly a person may decide intellectually that he disregards it, he will, nevertheless, instinctively feel and know that beauty is an evidence of superior qualities. Those who are greatly alarmed about its dangers and the vices to which it might lead, have seen only a part of the truth, and their pessimistic conclusions will soon be forgotten. But the great laws of Nature that render beauty an indication of superiority, will ever endure. And a more enlightened generation will intellectually understand the reasons why we instinctively feel a high regard for all beauty, and especially for beautiful ladies and gentlemen.

HOW SEXUALITY MODIFIES THE ENTIRE BODY AND MIND

But physical beauty is not the only valuable attribute that is enhanced by being well sexed. Sexuality modifies the entire mind and body. It effects not only the entire physical appearance, but it also modifies the tones of the voice, the carriage, manners, and the very thoughts. Nothing is more influential in determining the success or failure of a person's life, than the development and health or disease o£ the sexual system. These laws are more fully discussed in succeeding pages..

Chapter III Importance Of A Correct Understanding Of Nature's Sexual Laws

TOO MUCH SEXUAL ENERGY AND ACTIVITY

From the facts discussed in preceding pages the reader must not conclude that it is impossible for a person to be over well sexed, so to speak. In other words, to have too much sexuality — to have an excessively developed sexual system, or to have more than enough sexual energy and activity — for indeed all of this is possible And too much sexual energy and activity is even more unfortunate than a deficiency. And whenever there is more than can be properly controlled and directed, there is then too much.

DISASTERS WROUGHT BY UNCONTROLLED SEXUALITY

Nothing in fact is more thoroughly disastrous to all earthly prospects, than the uncontrolled, undirected or misdirected energies and activities of the sexual system. Nothing is more destructive to beauty, health, strength, vigor, mentality and all other desirable attributes. Nothing will more thoroughly force a person into the very depths of inferiority. Nothing will cause more abject misery both mental and physical.

WHY THE SEXUAL ENERGIES ARE SO FREQUENTLY MISDIRECTED

It is very seldom, however, that there is so much sexuality that it cannot be controlled and directed. But the cases in which it is not, are very numerous. These cases, however, usually arise from the fact that the victim does not realize the importance of properly controlling and directing the sexual energies and activities, or else the unfortunate sufferer does not know how. Both of which we shall endeavor to make plain in the chapters that follow.

ERRONEOUS OPINIONS REGARDING THE SEXUAL ORGANS

The wrongs resulting from uncontrollable or misdirected sexual energy are, perhaps, responsible for the fact that so many people seem to think that the sexual system is something to be ashamed of. That the sexual organs are impure, unclean and vulgar.

In generations past, when the masses were much less enlightened than they are at the present time, people saw the evils resulting from the sexual organs, Lut they failed to see and duly appreciate, all the good. They were in consequence fully impressed by the evils that might result from them, but they were ignorant