The Rational Sex Life for Men

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... VI A RATIONAL FIGHT FOR CHARACTER The consistent living of the continent life is not an easy task. It is the task of a real man; it means a fight. But the rewards are surpassingly great. Many men fail in this fight because they have allowed themselves to be drawn into loose habits of thinking or unmanly practices before they ever realized that they had a fight on. Many are defeated because they do not know how to make the fight. They are breaking every law which bears on the control of sex impulses and then wonder why their problem is so difficult. For the same reason some of the finest men who are conscientiously leading clean lives are doing so at altogether unnecessary cost. Their best energies and attention are so absorbed in their personal struggle as to seriously handicap them in their work. We shall point out, therefore, in this chapter, some essentials in a rational fight for character in the sphere of sex. First, on the negative side. In order to win the battle for self-control, there are some things a man must not do. There are many don'ts but we shall not dwell upon the negative side of the question extensively. We shall discuss only one or two points. It is a point of wisdom as well as of honor that the young man shall avoid physical contact wfth the opposite sex in any except the most conventional and proper relations. The reasons for this is the powerful sexual response which intimate physical contact with the opposite sex arouses in the male. It matters not how pure minded or resolute a man may be, he cannot permit himself to indulge in intimate physical contact with the opposite sex without arousing deep sexual responses. This should be clear from every normal man's experience as well as from our study of the close relation of thought an...