A Solemn Appeal - James White

transgression.
It deteriorates woman in the
estimation of man
"Besides, lust carries with itself the feeling of
degradation. He who indulges frequently, even
with his lawful wife, cannot but associate her in his
mind with this debased feeling to which she
administers. He first debases her by his brutality,
and then despises her for being debased. It is a law
of mind that this excess should produce contempt
for its partner. Reader, did you ever hear the
libertine speak well of woman as a sex? This fact is
apparent; and you may always measure the
sensuality of a man by his respect for the sex, and
his moral purity, by his estimation of woman. This
is a perfect thermometer of moral purity. Its
reasons are obvious. First, rogues suspect all
mankind of being rogues; liars, of being deceptive,
and the sensual, of sensuality. Secondly, he has
been mainly conversant with woman as a sexual
thing, and not as a pure, refined, and affectionate
being. Her sexuality mainly is what he has noticed,
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