Sexual Continence.
The question whether sexual relationship is a natural necessity and whether a man can abstain from sexual indulgence and remain in perfect health is commonly debated in bachelors’ quarters, and seems to have been decided by popular opinion in the negative. But a glance at the scientific bases of this problem and every-day experience of every unbiased man is sufficient to show that nothing could be further from the truth.
Sex is a biological, not a physical function; that is, the evacuation of the seminal fluid out of the body is intended by Nature for the purpose of fertilization only, and is not necessary for the physical well-being of the individual. The general stimulating and vitalizing effect of the internal secretions of the sexual glands is best obtained and subserved by retaining these fluids in the body; that is, by abstaining from free sexual intercourse. That this is so can be readily substantiated by practical observation; whenever a man undertakes to perform some mental or physical task, he has to lead an abstinent and moderate life to get out the maximum of his efficiency.
Pollution (Night Emission—Wet Dream).
Nature has wisely provided man with a wonderful self-regulating appliance, which fact explodes the popular belief about danger to health in overaccumulation of the seminal secretions in the body. Whenever such accumulation of the seminal fluid takes place in a healthy man, and he begins to feel a certain nervous tension and blood-flushes, Nature opens her safety valve and the overdistended seminal vesicles by pressure bring in motion the nervous muscular apparatus of the sexual organs, and this accumulated surplus comes out at night in sleep as a “wet dream” night emission, medically called “pollution.” The best proof that this phenomenon is normal, natural, and purposeful can be seen in the fact that the morning after it the man loses all the disturbing sensations of nervous tension and at once regains his freshness and vigor. A man may have these emissions once or twice a month, even once a week, and he does not have to worry about it in the least, provided that after each night emission he feels fresher and more vigorous than before it.