A Solemn Appeal - James White

this matter if they would, and rarely would if they
could. But do you not often insist on compliance,
and almost compel it when very disagreeable to
them? Oh! be not thus cruel! Wait at least for
reciprocity, and then guard carefully against all
pain and injury. Would that these truths might
reach every married pair in Christendom!
Private sensuality
"But we have not reached all the evils, if the
worst form, of 'excessive and perverted
Amativeness.' However prevalent both
licentiousness proper and legalized licentiousness,
private fornication I regard as at least equal to
either, and much more prevalent than the first
named. Our youth by wretched thousands,aye
millions, too conscientious to violate the literal law
of chastity, seek in solitude that same gratification
which constitutes sensuality itself. The two differ
in nothing except in the substitution of an
imaginary partner for a real one--in the complete
absence of that love which alone can sanctify this
indulgence, and in its being all sensuality, as well
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