A lecture to young men on chastity : intended also for the serious consideration of parents and guardians / by Sylvester Graham.
- Sylvester Graham
- Date:
- 1843
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A lecture to young men on chastity : intended also for the serious consideration of parents and guardians / by Sylvester Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to their certain knowledge, almost every boy in the school practised the filthy vice ; and many of them went to the still more loathsome and criminal extent of an unnatural commerce with each other ! Those teachers in Europe who have turned their attention to this exceedingly important subject, have found it one of the most serious difficulties which they have to grapple with, in the education of boys. And would the officers of our colleges and seminaries for youth, fully explore this matter, within their own official pre- cincts, they would discover an amount of pollu- tion which would fill them with abhorrence, and reveal to them some im]K>rtant secrets, in rela- tion to the early failure of the health of so many of their pupils and graduates. I have been in- formed of facts, by persons of extensive research on this subject, and whose professional business made it their duty to investigate it, the mere recital of which is enough to chill with horror the heart of every one that listens to it; but they are too shockingly obscene to be detailed in such a discourse as this. Suffice it here to say, that the early forming of the habit of self-pollu- tion is one of the most alarming evils in our land.— (See Note G.)* In the THIRD PLACE, it is a secret and solitary vice, which requires the consent of no second person,—and therefore the practice has little to prevent its frequency: and as it necessarily and very soon produces a preternatural prurience in the genital organs, and a reciprocity of influence * See also remarks from Annals of Education, and Dr. Woodward’s Letter, on the first page of the Testimonials.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28738639_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
