Instead of "wild oats" : a little book for the youth of eighteen and over / by Winfield Scott Hall.

  • Hall, Winfield Scott, 1861-1942.
Date:
[1912]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Instead of "wild oats" : a little book for the youth of eighteen and over / by Winfield Scott Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is important for every young man to know these facts of physiology of his sex construc- tion because it becomes at once evident to him that his sex glands are, in the plan of nature, sacred, first, to his manhood, and second, to humanity. Being thus set apart by nature for these high purposes, they must not be ex- cited or irritated either by thinking about them or by touching them, or in any other way disturbing the work which nature has set apart for them to do. To make a man out of a boy is such a great and difficult piece of work that it occupies the full activity of the testicles twenty-four hours in the day and three hundred aud sixty-five days in the year for a period of eight or ten years. Thus, the act of self-abuse, practiced more or less inno- cently or thoughtlessly by many boys, seriously interferes with this work of the testicles, de- pleting the powers of young manhood, and if persisted in, unmanning the youth and se- riously prejudicing his chances for efficiency and success. If he succeeds finally, it is in spite of a serious handicap. His success would have been much greater and probably attained [I8]