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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    masculine development of the vocal organs,— makes the beard grow,—and gives general robustness, and vigor, and sprightliness, and vivacity to the body; and energy and activity to the mind :—nor is there the least evidence that the mere loss of the semen, apart from the concomitant excitement, irritation, functional disturbance, and expenditure of vital power, is the source of any considerable injury to the human system. But it is perfectly certain, on the other hand, that all the evils resulting from the abuse of the genital organs, occur, in their very worst and most incorrigible forms, where there is no secretion and emission of semen. That the undue determination of blood to the brain, lungs, stomach, and other important organs, during venereal indulgence, producing over-distension of the vessels of these viscera, and resulting in debility, relaxation, Sic., is the source of far greater evil to the system, than the mere loss of semen, ought not to be
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