A Solemn Appeal - James White

as, if possible, a still more unnatural and effectual
violation of nature's laws. Do not both consist
equally, in warp and woof, of sensuality? Is not the
same propensity indulged in both? Are not the
same feelings exercised, and in the same way,
saving that its partner, so indispensable to both, is
imaginary here, but real there? Is not the kind of
gratification sought and afforded alike in both? Are
not both precisely alike in debasing the character?
The same feelings, the same organs, the same
action in these organs, the same evacuations,
except that private prostitution is necessarily more
completely gross and lustful, as well as more
injurious to the organs exercised; besides the far
greater number of its subjects, and the far greater
frequency of its indulgence. Is licentiousness
debasing and polluting to the soul, and is not selfpollution
even more so? Does it not create even a
greater degree of shame, and self-abhorrence, and
vulgarity? Does the former disease the sexual
apparatus, and does not the latter equally, probably
more? Does the former often produce impotency,
and does not the latter much more frequently?
Does the former derange the nervous system, and
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