A lecture to young men on chastity / [Sylvester Graham].

  • Sylvester Graham
Date:
1838
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Credit: A lecture to young men on chastity / [Sylvester Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    guardians and teachers, to all that is true and real concerning it. It may then be found expedient and desirable that a work should be produced on the subject, more peculiarly adapted to young minds. I am however inclined to think, that oral instructions from parents, guardians, and others having the care of youth, adapted to the age, intelligence and circumstances of those instructed, will always be found preferable to books, in the first pre- sentations of this subject to the youthful mind. As it is generally known that I have fre- quently given Lectures exclusively to females, and particularly to Mothers, and as many erroneous impressions, and many misrepresen- tations have gone abroad concerning those Lectures, it is proper that I should take this opportunity to state, that I have never given them, but at the particular request of the ladies themselves: nor, in any of those Lec- tures, have I ever made even an allusion to sexual intercourse—nor to any other subject which may not properly be listened to by the most delicate and refined lady. So far as my own feelings are concerned, I should very
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