A Solemn Appeal - James White

means aside from selfabuse; for it follows in the
train of all sexual abuses, and is often present as
the result of inherited weaknesses. It is exceedingly
debilitating, and, sad as it is, it is nevertheless true
that our American women as a class are almost
universally afflicted with this exhausting loss.
"The best blood of woman, as well as man,
goes to the generative organs for the purpose of
forming the new being; and, if it is lost by this
constant drain from a million women, who can
estimate how much lower we stand in consequence
of this, both as regards physical and mental
conditions, than we might have done had the lifeforces
of our progenitors been preserved intact?"
Spermatorrhea
"If every boy in the land, who is just beginning
the practice of self-abuse, could be made fully to
understand that this habit would soon produce such
a weakness and irritation of the genital organs that
they would act involuntarily upon the least
excitement, or even when they were asleep, and
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