satisfy their ill-governed
passions are liable to pay a serious penalty.

8. MISCARRIAGE.--If a woman is liable to abortion or miscarriage, absolute
abstinence is the only remedy. No sexual indulgence during pregnancy can be
safely tolerated.

9. It is better for people not to marry until they are of proper age. It is
a physiological fact that men seldom reach the full maturity of their
virile power before the age of twenty-five, and the female rarely attains
the full vigor of her sexual powers before the age of twenty.

10. ILLICIT PLEASURES.--The indulgence of illicit pleasures, says Dr. S.
Pancoast, sooner or later is sure to entail the most loathsome diseases on
their votaries. Among these diseases are Gonorrhoea, Syphilis,
Spermatorrhoea (waste of semen by daily and nightly involuntary emissions),
Satyriasis (a species of sexual madness, or a sexual diabolism, causing men
to commit rape and other beastly acts and outrages, not only on women and
children, but men and animals, as sodomy, pederasty, etc.), Nymphomania
(causing women to assail every man they meet, and supplicate and excite him
to gratify their lustful passions, or who resort to means of sexual
pollutions, which is impossible to describe without shuddering), together
with spinal diseases and many disorders of the most distressing and
disgusting character, {208} filling the bones with rottenness, and eating
away the flesh by gangrenous ulcers, until the patient dies, a horrible
mass of putridity and corruption.

11. SENSUALITY.--Sensuality is not love, but an unbridled desire which
kills the soul. Sensuality will drive away the roses in the cheeks of
womanhood, undermine health and produce a brazen countenance that can be
read by all men. The harlot may commit her sins in the dark, but her
countenance reveals her character and her immorality is an open secret.

12. SEXUAL TEMPERANCE.--All excesses and absurdities of every kind should
be carefully avoided. Many of the female disorders which often revenge
themselves in the cessation of all sexual pleasure are largely due to the
excessive practice of sexual indulgence.

13. FREQUENCY.--Some writers claim that intercourse should never occur
except for the purpose of childbearing; but such restraint is not natural
and consequently not conducive to health. There are many conditions in
which the health of the mother and offspring must be respected. It is now
held that it is nearer a crime than a virtue to