512 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG 



in those out of the bonds. Excessive indulgence be- 

 tween the married produces as great and lasting evil 

 effects as in the single man or woman, and is nothing 

 more nor less than legalized prostitution." 



Results of Excesses.— The sad results of excess- 

 ive indulgences are seen on every hand. Numerous 

 aihnents attributed to overwork, constitutional disease, 

 or hereditary predisposition, know no other cause and 

 need no other explanation. 



Effects upon Husbands.— No doubt the principal 

 blame in this matter properly falls upon the husband; 

 but it cannot be said that he is the greatest sufferer; 

 however, his punishment is severe enough to clearly 

 indicate the enormity of the transgression, and to warn 

 him to a reformation of his habits. The following is 

 a quotation from an eminent medical authority: 



^ ' But any warning against sexual dangers would be 

 very incomplete if it did not extend to the excesses so 

 often committed by married persons in ignorance of 

 their ill effects. Too frequent emissions of the life- 

 giving fluid, and too frequent excitement of the nerv- 

 ous system, are in themselves most destructive. The 

 result is the same within the marriage bond as without 

 it. The married man who thinks that because he is a 

 married man he can commit no excess, however often 

 the act of sexual congress is repeated, will suffer as 

 certainly and as seriously as the unmarried debauchee 

 who acts on the same principle in his indulgences,— 

 perhaps more certainly, from his very ignorance, and 

 from his not taking those precautions and following 

 those rules which a career of vice is apt to teach the 

 sensualist. 



"Many a man has, until his marriage, lived a most 

 continent life: so has his wife. As soon as thev are 



