Confidential Chats with Boys

by William Lee Howard

One natural act of the glands in the body which now commence to secrete profusely, is to empty themselves of an overload. Your testicles are secreting life fluid. They do this constantly and will keep on doing so throughout a long life if you have cared for them as they should be cared for; left alone until the time has arrived for you to be a father.

Nights when the testicles are overloaded with seminal fluid, they empty themselves. But remember this fact: they only let out the overflow, they never WASTE any. It is something like that which goes on in a good spring of pure water. This spring is always welling up with fresh water; its overflow must be taken care of, so off the excess water runs. But you will notice that no more water runs away than is necessary; the spring keeps up to the same level and always has fresh water. Dam it up and you all know what happens—a muddy, dead mass of useless water. Go to work and pump out the spring, and what occurs? It is emptied, and if the pumping is kept up will disappear altogether. It is now a useless, dirty and moldy hole where once flowed pure, sparkling, live water.

Just so with the life spring in you. Let it take care of itself. It knows how. But you must protect it, as you would any good thing. And this is done through the mind; by keeping evil thoughts out of your mind the spring is not emptied or muddied.

When the testicles are overflowing with their fluid there comes a night for casting off this overflow. Now this overflow irritates certain nerves around the sex organ, these send a message to the brain telling it to open the glands and let out this overflow. This message is the dream you have. It is nothing to be ashamed of, nothing sinful or wrong, just a sign that you are in good health and growing to be a strong man.

Here is where the injury of evil thoughts, smutty talk and reading comes in. If you have been listening during the day to these injurious things, when you sleep, some memory of the things heard or seen remains on the memory—as everything does. This brings about injurious dreams, these dreams send a message to your sex organs and they return an order to open the valves of the testicles and pour out precious life fluid. As you see, in such a case it is not the overflow you are casting off, but most valuable energy and muscle-giving power. You have been drawing from the well, and if you persist in this method you will soon be a ruined boy. But the dreams which come naturally do no injury to you when they do not occur too often.

But how often should they come, Doctor?

Just wait for a few moments; we will soon come to all those questions and their answers.

Let me first tell you, boys, that all the statements of the Quacks, and of too many doctors who are not known as Quacks but in heart and method are worse than Quacks, are abominable LIES. Every one of their advertisements about “Lost Manhood” is a mean falsehood. They are founded upon what is natural for every boy to have occur to him, but they confound in your minds the true and the false. They try to scare you, and they have scared millions of American youths and boys, by telling you what happens is ALWAYS a symptom of “Lost Manhood.” Nothing of the kind, as I have shown you. If you will all grasp and hold the facts I have and shall tell you, we can drive these bloodhounds from the land. When you realize that the advertisements you read in some papers and those booklets sent to boys are nothing but a pack of lies gotten up to bleed you and frighten you, the Quacks will fall away like leaves in an autumn gale. We can raise such a wind, you and I, that every Quack and his kind will have to go digging sewers for a living—where they belong.

“Lost Manhood” is such a rare condition in the boy and youth that many doctors go through a career of practice and never see a case. Of course we have boys born with weak brains, idiots, and those with a growth or disease of the sexual center in the brain. This makes them constantly handle their organs; they are thinking of vile things only, they are really insane on this one subject and of course soon sink to the level of—no, not beasts—animals are pure in their instincts—to the level of imbeciles.

I have shown you how you can bring yourselves to the point of not being the fathers of these unfortunate and horrid things.