Human Physiology. 



ing this form of the violation of the laws of nature orie ot the 

 consequences of lust, which is the divorce of the sexual instinct 

 from its natural use and purpose. 



There is another theory of sexual morals, worse, if possible, 

 than this, but more logical and consistent. It is the one widely 

 taught by a large and very active school of social reformers in 

 England and elsewhere, under the name of Free Love, by which 

 the names of freedom and love are both perverted; or Sexual 

 Religion; or Social Science. 



The doctrine is that sexual union, from the age of puberty, is 

 the natural requirement and right of every person, male and 

 female, and that nothing ought to prevent its free and frequent 

 exercise; and that to avoid too great an increase of population, 

 the inconvenience of children to the unmarried, and too many 

 to the married, means should be used to prevent conception. 

 The generative organs, it is said, are subject, like all other 

 organs, to the law of exercise, and "it is a ofuty and necessity 

 to give them this exercise from the age of puberty, till their 

 decline." I quote from a book which boasts ten editions. This 

 doctrine is simply one of unrestrained, universal, promiscuous 

 intercourse, extending to every person of both sexes; and it is 

 at open war with the conventional morality of society, which 

 tries to guard the purity of some women before marriage, by 

 the sacrifice of others to the Moloch of masculine lust, and the 

 morality of religion, which insists on chastity both of men and 

 women, in and out of marriage. 



I have already shown that the basis of this horrible demand 

 for universal prostitution and license is utterly unscientific. The 

 generative organs differ from all others in being adapted to long 

 periods of perfect repose. We have seen that in vegetables 

 and many insects they are used but once in a life time ; and 

 that in all the higher animals they come into use only at long 

 intervals, in many, intervals of years, and for one specific pur- 

 pose. We know that with thousands of men, and millions of 



