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SAFEGUARDING THE SEX LIFE 
1. How does the practice of handling their sex organs sometimes 
originate in children? 
2. What can be done to prevent it ? 
3. What harmful effects, mental and physical, has persistent 
masturbation in older boys and girls ? 
4. How can the bad practice be overcome? 
Vampires. — Young men are often victims of charlatans, 
so-called “ doctors,” and quack remedies. Advertisements 
appear in the newspapers describing symptoms of the sex 
diseases that are said to lead to serious debility, to loss of 
manhood, and to other evils. The claim is made that the 
trouble can easily be cured by the medicine or by the charla¬ 
tan advertised. The young man who reads is convinced that 
he is in a dangerous condition; he feels timid about consult¬ 
ing the family physician, so he goes to the “ specialist.” 
These advertising “ doctors ” are usually scoundrels, who de¬ 
lude the youth into taking medicine he does not need. If 
anything is wrong with the sexual functions of a young man, 
he should consult the most trustworthy physician he can get, 
the one who attends the other members of his family. 
1. Why should advertising “doctors” always be avoided? 
2. Why is the family doctor the best physician to consult when 
one suspects his sex organs may not be just right? 
Night Emissions. — Boys should know that voluptuous 
dreams accompanied by seminal emissions are normal, the 
experience of all young men, and not the grave symptoms of 
departing virility. The reproductive glands in health are 
always producing a small amount of fluid, part of which is 
absorbed again, part escapes with the urine, and part is lost 
in occasional night emissions. The amount that is lost is 
small and does no harm unless the boy has been indulging 
unclean thoughts or practices. The boy who excites his sex 
feelings by vulgar stories, by thinking about sex relations, or 
by handling his organs stimulates an undue quantity of secre- 
