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    Sex: Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English
    Sex: Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English
    Sex: Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English
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    Sex: Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English

    By Henry Stanton

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    As one can guess from the title, the following is supposed to be a sex education book. However, some of the beliefs and advice that are espoused are quite conservative and strict. It included erroneous advice, such as the belief that male masturbation leads to epilepsy. Although the message in this book is no longer valid, it provides a glimpse into the dominant Puritan beliefs that were present in U.S. society at the time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 21, 2019
    ISBN4057664654984
    Sex: Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English

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      Sex - Henry Stanton

      Henry Stanton

      Sex: Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664654984

      Table of Contents

      CHAPTER I

      SEX

      CHAPTER II

      THE TRANSITION FROM CELL TO HUMAN BEING

      CHAPTER III

      SEX IN MALE CHILDHOOD (FROM 14 TO 16)

      CHAPTER IV

      SEX IN FEMALE CHILDHOOD (FROM 12 TO 14)

      CHAPTER V

      SEX IN THE ADOLESCENT MALE (FROM PUBERTY TO MATURITY)

      CHAPTER VI

      SEX IN THE ADOLESCENT FEMALE (FROM PUBERTY TO MATURITY)

      CHAPTER VII

      SEX IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION THE HUSBAND

      CHAPTER VIII

      SEX IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION THE WIFE

      CHAPTER IX

      SEX DISEASES

      CHAPTER X

      LOVE AND SEX

      CHAPTER I

      Table of Contents

      SEX

      Table of Contents

      The happiness of all human beings, men and women, depends largely on their rational solution of the sexual problem. Sex and the part it plays in human life cannot be ignored. In the case of animals sex plays a simpler and less complex rôle. It is a purely natural and instinctive function whose underlying purpose is the perpetuation of the species. It is not complicated by the many incidental phenomena which result, in man's case, from psychologic, economic, moral and religious causes. Climate, social conditions, individual modes of life and work, alcohol, wealth and poverty, and other factors affect sexual activity in human beings.

      Sexual love, which is practically unknown to the animals, is a special development of the sex urge in the human soul. The deeper purpose of the sex function in human beings, likewise, is procreation, the reproduction of species.

      The average man, woman and child should know the essential sex facts in order to be able to deal with the sex problems of life. Of late years there has been a greater diffusion of such knowledge. To a large extent, however, children and adolescents are still taught to look on all that pertains to sex as something shameful and immodest, something not to be discussed. Sex is an Avoided Subject.

      This is fundamentally wrong. Sex affects the very root of all human life. Its activities are not obscene, but Nature's own means to certain legitimate ends. The sex functions, when properly controlled and led into the proper channels, are a most essential and legitimate form of physical self-expression. The veil of secrecy with which they are so often shrouded tends to create an altogether false impression regarding them. This discussion of these Avoided Subjects, in Plain English, is intended to give the salient facts regarding sex in a direct, straightforward manner, bearing in mind the true purpose of normal sex activities.

      The more we know of the facts of sex, the right and normal part sex activities play in life, and all that tends to abuse and degrade them, the better able we will be to make sex a factor for happiness in our own lives and that of our descendants. Mankind, for its own general good, must desire that reproduction—the real purpose of every sexual function—occur in such a way as to perpetuate its own best physical and mental qualities.

      THE LAW OF PHYSICAL LIFE

      It is a universal rule of physical life that every individual being undergoes a development which we know as its individual life and which, so far as its physical substance is concerned, ends with death. Death is the destruction of the greater part of this individual organism which, when death ensues, once more becomes lifeless matter. Only small portions of this matter, the germ cells, continue to live under certain conditions which nature has fixed.

      The germ cell—as has been established by the microscope—is the tiny cell which in the lowest living organisms as well as in man himself, forms the unit of physical development. Yet even this tiny cell is already a highly organized and perfected thing. It is composed of the most widely differing elements which, taken together, form the so-called protoplasm or cellular substance. And for all life established in nature the cell remains the constant and unchanging form element. It

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