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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    All kinds of stimulating and heating sub- stances, high-seasoned food, rich dishes, the free use of flesh, and even the excess- of ali- ment, all, more or less—and some to a very great degree—increase the concupiscent exci- tability and sensibility of the genital organs, and augment their influence on the functions of organic life, and on the intellectual and moral faculties. Sexual Desire, again, in turn,, throws its influence over the whole domain of the nerves had, at some period of his life, been exceedingly injured by self-pollution, or venereal excesses in some way or other. He frankly replied that my opinion was un- doubtedly correctthat he had had the severe misfor- tune to be afflicted with insanity for several months, and that while in that condition, he was left to practise self-pollution to an extent which, he had been con- vinced, since the recovery of his season, had nearly ruined his physical constitution, and greatly impaired his intellectual and moral faculties. The propensity to this pernicious indulgence is so common and so power- ful in those who are laboring under insanity resulting from the morbid condition of the nerves of organic life, that no means should be neglected by which the prac- tice can be prevented in such cases.
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