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Mr. Fowler the Phrenologist in speaking upon this subject in his pamphlet entitled, “Amativeness warning and advice to married and single,” makes the following remarks, that “a hard day’s work does not equally prostrate and fatigue. The fallow-buck after his passion has subsided is tamed down by exhaustion, that he can be approached and almost caught by hand. Frequent indulgence in any of its forms will run down and run out any one of either sex. Those who would write or speak or study must forego this indulgence or intellectual exertion or else die. Powerful constitutions will stand an immense drain before they finally break, but terrible is the result. Mere animal temperaments are less injured, because by supposition their vitality is abundant, and its drain by other functions is slight; nor do they enjoy this function as do those more highly organised and hence are proportionally less exhausted; such live, to be sure; so do brutes—carnal grovelling, sensual, low-lived animals, living mainly on a single pleasure, when their nature serves up so many. Let such revel in lust because capable of little else. But then highly organised must partake rarely, else it will excite to distraction and proportionally exhaust.”
FINIS.
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[1]. The Greeks and Romans considered that by familiarizing the population with the exhibition of the human figure completely naked, libidinous propensities and desires would be less excited. The continence and chastity of the half-clad Germans, Tacitus highly extols, and contrasts with the effeminate and luxurious habits of the more polished nations of his time. The worship of the Phallus, or erect penis, is of the most remote antiquity, and derived its origin not from vulgar or obscene notions, but from a consideration that the generative powers of nature were thus best personified; and to render the type more complete, the Deities were often made Hermaphroditic or of a two-fold sex, to show that either alone would be incomplete without the other, to represent nature engendering and reproducing. The Phallus was also used as an amulet or charm suspended from the neck, and its exhibition over a house in Pompeii is explained by the words “domus felicitatis.” On this interesting subject, Mr. O’Brien’s learned, but too fanciful work, on the Round Towers of Ireland, will throw considerable light.
[2]. See “Memoires de la Court d’Espagne,” by Madame d’Aunoy.
[3]. See Tournefort’s Travels in Turkey.