Conclusion.
The foregoing pages are offered to the reader with the purpose of presenting a short and popular exposition of the subject of sex knowledge, immense in its scope and tremendous in its social importance, and to give in the simplest and briefest possible terms the most fundamental and important facts from a practical viewpoint of the sex life in health and disease. The conclusions to be drawn will naturally vary with the mental and moral capacity of the reader.
The writer does not want to force his personal opinion on the reader, and his intention is to present only the facts of the sex life as they are viewed by medical science of our day, and as they appear from his personal observation. The writer reserves, however, a privilege to define his position and attitude on the question of social purity. His views, based upon personal and theoretical grounds, would be:
First.—That sexual abstinence can be enforced with perfect ease and without any harmful consequences until the full development of physical and sexual maturity, which is about from 22–25 years of age.
Second.—That venereal diseases and various sexual disorders are entirely too big a price to be paid for a momentary impulse.
Third.—That the only proper and normal solution of the sexual problem for a man above the age of sexual maturity is—marriage.
Fourth.—That the sexual “necessity” in young men under the age of sexual maturity is always, and in men sexually mature, frequently, a self-suggested notion, artificially stimulated by indulgence and environment, and allowed to grow and persist thru the lack of self-control.
Fifth.—That the amount of social waste and individual damage caused by venereal diseases can be reduced to a minimum by spreading among men and maturing boys the elementary knowledge of the facts of sex life in health and disease.
Questionnaire
Question 1.—Is sexual continence harmful to health?