The 
Philosophy and 
Psychology of 
Human 
Relations 
THE 
FLORIDA PSYCHOLOGICAL 
PUBLISHING COMPANY 
OCALA, FLORIDA THE PHILOSOPHY 
AND PSYCHOLOGY 
OF 
HUMAN RELATIONS 
By 
DR. C. E. KIPLINGER 
FIFTH EDITION 
The Florida Psychological Publishing Co. 
Ocala, Florida 
COPYRIGHT 1914 PREFATORY 
There is no subject more interesting to ninety per cent, of the 
people of the world than the one to which the author has given 
his attention in compiling this very instructive work. 
Largely because of prudery and false modesty and also be- 
cause of general ignorance, even among the medical profession, 
this vitally important subject has been neglected, and it is with 
an earnest effort to instruct and help that the author has delved 
deep into this fascinating subject. 
To know how to conserve the vital sexual powers requires 
more than physical training and knowledge and to obtain the 
fullest enjoyment of them it is necessary to understand the 
psychology of human relations. 
The necessary demonstratable facts are herewith given, by 
which you may improve your physical and mental condition and 
increase your enjoyment of the sexual relations to their greatest 
extent. 
The Author. 
Read, Not To Believe Nor To Contradict, 
But To Weigh and Consider. 
The U. S. Government rejects two-thirds of the enlistments 
for Army and Navy, so it behooves every thinking person to 
study the cause, and, if possible, stop this rapidly deteriorating 
physical destruction, and make an appeal for a higher standard 
of Man Power. 
The continuous call for the principles as taught in this book 
(because of the excellent preserving of Man-Power obtained by 
their observance) prevails upon us to print a fifth edition. THE FIRST DIVISION 
(Seven Parts) 
THE PRINCIPLES OF HARMONY 
Applied to The Selection of Sexual Consorts 
This division contains a clear exposition of the laws of 
NATURE GOVERNING THE SELECTION OF COMPANIONS FOR LIFE. 
It shows what temperaments are adapted to each other, 
AND WHAT ARE DISCORDANT, AND THE REASON WHY. IT EX- 
PLAINS THE GREAT LAWS OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC AFFINITY, THE 
RELATION OF THE ANATOMICAL TEMPERAMENTS, AND THE LAWS 
OF CHEMICAL AFFINITY AS EXPRESSED IN HUMAN ORGANIZATION. 
It also gives directions for the detection of organic sexual 
WEAKNESS IN EITHER SEX AND THE SIGNS OF COMPLETE MANHOOD 
AND WOMANHOOD. IT IS THE DESIGN OF THE AUTHOR TO INSTRUCT 
EVERY YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN IN THE PRINCIPLES THAT UNDER- 
LIE THE CONDITIONS OF HAPPINESS IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION, 
SO THAT NO MISTAKE WILL BE MADE IN THE SELECTION OF A 
COMPANION FOR LIFE. IT SHOW: 
1. HOW TO JUDGE WHAT TEMPERAMENT IS SUITABLE TO YOUR 
OWN. 
2. HOW TO TEST THE POSSIBILITY OF LOVE AND ENJOYMENT 
OF COMPANIONSHIP. 
3. HOW TO AVOID THOSE WHO ARE UNFIT FOR MATRIMONY BY 
DISEASE OR ORGANIC INCOMPLETENESS. 
4. HOW TO CONDUCT A MAGNETIC COURTSHIP. 
5. HOW TO PRESERVE THE HARMONIES WHEN THEY HAVE 
BEEN SECURED. 
6. Causes and cure of jealousy. 7. The true philosophy of divorce, showing for what 
REASONS AND HOW A MARRIAGE SHOULD BE TERMINATED, AND THE 
BEHAVIOR OF THE PARTIES AFTER DIVORCE. 
These propositions will be considered in their order. 
Modern society has established the conventional mar- 
riage AFTER MANY YEARS OF EVOLUTION. IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE 
AN IDEAL STATE, IN WHICH THE PARTIES FIND GREAT FELICITY; 
BUT THIS SUPPOSITION IS SELDOM REALIZED IN PRACTICAL EXPERI- 
ENCE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, • OBSERVATION JUSTIFIES THE BE- 
LIEF THAT THE GREAT MAJORITY OF MARRIAGES ARE POSITIVELY 
UNHAPPY, AND IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT SOME ARE COMPLETELY 
DESTRUCTIVE OF LIFE AND HEALTH. THESE UNHAPPY CONDITIONS 
CANNOT BE ASCRIBED TO EVIL ACTIONS OR BAD CHARACTER OF THE 
PARTIES, OR OF EITHER OF THEM, IN MANY CASES. SOME OF THE 
MOST DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS I HAVE EVER OBSERVED HAVE EX- 
ISTED IN MARRIAGES IN WHICH BOTH PARTIES POSSESSED EXALTED 
CHARACTER AND WERE ACTUATED BY THE LOFTIEST IMPULSES OF 
DEVOTION AND LOVE. 
The true law of happiness may be declared in these 
WORDS: THE PARTIES MUST BE ADAPTED TO EACH 
OTHER IN THEIR PHYSICAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND 
THEY MUST UNDERSTAND THE LAWS OF HARMONY 
AND PRACTICE HUMAN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SAME 
SKILL WITH WHICH MUSICIANS PRACTICE MUSIC. To 
DO THIS SUCCESSFULLY REQUIRES A KNOWLEDGE OF THE ELEMENTS 
OF HUMAN CHARACTER AS THE MUSICIAN MUST UNDERSTAND HIS 
INSTRUMENT. THE INSTRUMENT (I. E., THE HUMAN CHARACTERS 
ASSOCIATED), MUST BE SUCH AS CAN BE ADJUSTED TO HARMONY, 
AND THE LAWS OF HARMONY MUST BE OBEYED IN PRODUCING THE 
MUSIC OF HUMAN HAPPINESS. 
The IMPORTANT FACTS OF ONE’S OWN CHARACTER BEING KNOWN 
AND BORNE IN MIND, THE KNOWLEDGE IMPARTED BY THIS WORK 
BECOMES DOUBLY INTERESTING AND AVAILABLE FOR GOOD RESULTS. Proper Selection of Sexual Consorts and the 
Harmony Which Results Therefrom 
First. 
HOW TO TELL WHAT TEMPERAMENT IS SUITABLE TO 
YOUR OWN 
The temperament of any individual is made up of a great 
many conditions. The seven primary conditions of temperament 
are called the Electric, the Magnetic, the Motive, the Vital, the 
Mental, the Acid, and the Alkali. As the names indicate, the 
first two of these relate to the relative proportion of electric or 
magnetic conditions, the next three to anatomical development, 
and the last two to relative proportion of chemical elements. 
The temperament of the individual is the final proportion in 
which all these elements combine in his constitution, and to 
make a perfect affinity his consort should have a temperament 
in which the elements are so blended that those which are 
strong in him shall have a corresponding strength of the 
harmonious elements in her. That is to say, electricity should 
be harmoniously opposed to magnetism, acid to alkali, the ana- 
tomical temperaments should be so blended as to secure har- 
monious relations likewise. 
It is not unusual that we find the temperamental elements 
uniformly distributed over the whole individual so as to make 
his whole body belong to the same temperament. This occurs 
sometimes, and in such cases the individual is adapted to a 
person of the opposite sex who has a corresponding temper- 
ament. But as a general rule, a careful analysis has to be 
made of various parts of the body to determine the tempera- 
ment of each. Thus it often happens that a man will be electric 
in his brain and magnetic in his digestive organs, acid in the 
upper part of his face and alkali in the lower, motive in his 
legs and vital in his trunk, etc.; and in all of these cases it is 
true that he should have a different, but harmonious condition 
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To understand my analysis of this subject, the reader must 
remember that electricity is always manifested by the states of 
gravity, respectivity, coldness, and darkness; that magnetism 
is always manifested by the states of vibration, radiation, heat, 
and light. So whenever we find any part of the body dominated 
by electricity, that part will always be found to be dark and 
cold, and if it is dominated by magnetism it will be found to 
be light colored and warm. In studying the temperament of the 
individual, I consider it first as a whole, in general appearance 
of the body, and then observe particularly the temperament of 
the skin, the digestive organs, the heart, the lungs. The relative 
states of electricity and magnetism of these parts of the con- 
stitution being determined, there is not much else that is likely 
to exert any controlling influence. 
The electro-magnetic conditions of the sexual organs is indi- 
cated by the color of the organs themselves and by the color of 
the beard. Where electricity dominates, the organs will be dark 
in complexion and the beard will be dark or black, according to 
the intensity of the condition. Where magnetism dominates, 
the organs will be ruddy in color, the beard will be light brown, 
red or flaxen, according to the degree of magnetism. Females 
as a rule, develop no pronounced beards, but an inspection of 
the down on the upper lip and the cheeks will show what the 
color would be if the beard were developed. It is hardly neces- 
sary to add that the most delightful effects of sexual inter- 
course can only be experienced by those whose sexual organs 
are harmonious in temperamental adaption. 
Those who are electric in the skin have a dark skin, while the 
magnetic skin is ruddy, in all sexual association the electro- 
magnetic conditions developed in the skin are important factors 
in the pleasures to be derived from personal contact, and 
persons who possess the same conditions are naturally repulsive 
to each other, while those who possess harmonious conditions 
find that personal contact is always delightful and productive 
of health on both sides. 
The electro-magnetic conditions of the digestive organs is 
indicated by the color and temperature of the lips, tongue and 
mucus membrane lining in the mouth. Here, as in all other OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
7 
cases, the electric condition is indicated by dark color and cool 
temperature, A magnetic condition will be indicated by a 
bright red in the lips and tongue, while the gums and mucus 
lining of the mouth will be much paler than in the electric 
temperament. It is a great truth, not generally known, that 
persons possessing the magnetic condition of the digestive 
organs are repelled by kisses from persons having a similar 
condition, while those of an electric type are repelled from 
persons having the electric state. The most delightful effects 
are produced by the union of harmonious conditions here as 
elsewhere. 
The electro-magnetic condition of the heart is indicated by 
the temperature of the chin and extremities. Persons who are 
ruddy or florid in complexion of the chin, and who have warm 
hands and feet, are magnetic in the heart, and possess a power- 
ful circulation. This is one of the most important conditions 
of temperament, and in the selection of a consort it is imper- 
atively necessary to select a person whose circulation is opposite 
to your own. 
The electro-magnetic condition of the brain is indicated by 
the color of the hair. The darker the color of the hair, the 
more electric. The lighter the color of the hair, the more 
magnetic the condition of the brain. It follows therefore that 
two persons having the same color of the hair never can be 
harmonious in their intellectual processes, because they possess 
brains which are approximately in the same electro-magnetic 
condition, and therefor antagonistic. 
Black hair harmonizes well with all the colors above brown, 
including red. Brown hair, if dark, will harmonize with light 
brown, red, and golden. Dark red hair will harmonize with 
light brown, golden, and flaxen. Light red hair will harmonize 
black, dark brown, and dark red. 
The electro-magnetic condition of the lungs is indicated by 
the nostrils. Persons who have electric lungs have dark nostrils 
and the breath is cool. Persons who have magnetic lungs have 
wide and red nostrils and the breadth is usually warm. The 8 
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pleasure of sexual companionship is greatly enhanced by a 
correct condition of harmonious association in this particular. 
The electro-magnetic condition of the cerebellum is indicated 
by the color of the eyes. The cerebellum is the seat of amative- 
ness, or sexual love, and the eyes indicate the harmonies of this 
passion as the hair indicates the harmonies of purely intellec- 
tual intercourse. The association of two persons having the 
same color of eyes is sexually antagonistic, because the cere- 
bellum of each is in the same condition. To secure the highest 
expression of sexual passion the cerebellum of one person must 
be electric and the other magnetic. For this reason blue eyes 
are harmonious with dark brown, violet with hazel, gray eyes 
with brown; while those persons whose eyes are mottled with 
a mixture of blue and brown may consort with either light blue 
or dark brown, being careful to select the color which is least 
represented in their own. 
It is impossible to emphasize too greatly the importance of 
harmonious adaption in these particulars. Love is simply the 
mutual attraction existing between positive and negative forces, 
and the action of these forces is entirely dependent upon electro- 
magnetic conditions. The reason why any man loves any 
woman or any woman loves any man, is simply because he has 
magnetic conditions which correspond to her electric ones, and 
vice versa. The reason a hungry man loves food or an over- 
heated one seeks shade is found in the understanding of the 
same great principle. Hence it follows that when one or more 
of these conditions are harmonious and the rest are inhar- 
monious, there will be some gratification between the parties, 
but it will fall short of a complete happiness just as much as 
the adaption is lacking in complete obedience to the great law 
of electro-magnetic affinity. Thus we will suppose the case of 
a man and woman who are adapted to each other in everything 
except the color of eyes. They may have the most delightful 
experiences in mere intellectual conversation; they may enjoy 
personal contact kisses and caresses, and even sexual inter- 
course to a great degree (if these organs are all harmonious) ; 
but they will fall short of the realization of complete harmony 
in sexual passion, because the cerebellum of each is in the same OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
9 
electro-magnetic state, and they will fail to reach the highest 
forms of ecstatic experience. In the case of a man and a woman 
who are harmonious in every point except the color of the hair, 
there may be ecstatic sexual experience, great pleasure in per- 
sonal contact and caresses, but they will be antagonistic in their 
habits of thought, and will not be able to afford each other 
mutual assistance and co-operation in purely mental occupa- 
tions. While it is true that a companionship involving the loss 
of only one condition of adaptation might be infinitely better 
than none, or the results attained in the average marriage, 
every well organized person will concede that where complete 
happiness is possible of attainment, it is folly to accept any- 
thing less. 
The electro-magnetic conditions are the great fundamental 
facts to be considered in estimating any adaptation for com- 
panionship. But the anatomical and chemical relations are 
important incidentals which aid us in understanding the minute 
details of the electro-magnetic conditions, and must never be 
treated with neglect. These anatomical and chemical relations 
of the various parts of the body enable us to determine the 
relative intensity of the action of the electro-magnetic forces. 
Thus it may be stated, as a general rule, that the anatomical 
conditions indicating the vital temperament in any part of the 
body are an evidence that that part of the body is more mag- 
netic than electric, that the conditions indicating the Motive 
Temperament are an evidence that the part is more electric 
than magnetic, and that the conditions indicating the Mental 
Temperament are an evidence that magnetism is more rapidly 
radiated, and that the body will pass rapidly from positive to 
negative conditions, and vice versa. 
For the foregoing reasons therefore, we should select for a 
person having the Vital Temperament a companion who pos- 
sesses a strong endowment of the Motive, while those persons 
who are deficient in Vital development are naturally associated 
with those who are stronger in this element. This principle 
should be extended to different parts of the body. It is not 10 
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unusual to find a person who is vital in the form of the trunk, 
who is nevertheless very muscular in the arms and legs. Such 
a person should be associated with a companion in which these 
conditions are reversed. And it is equally true that where 
there is a strong endowment of the Mental Temperament, caus- 
ing a rapid expenditure of magnetism, association should be 
made with a person who has less of the Mental and more of the 
Vital and Motive, while those persons who are deficient in 
mental vivacity and rapidity should be associated with persons 
who possess a stronger endowment. 
I do not wish to be misunderstood here as advocating the 
union of great extremes of development. I do not think that 
the best results are obtainable in companionship of extremes. 
I do not advocate that a very fat man should consort with a 
living skeleton; that a man six feet tall should select a woman 
under five feet in height; nor that a dull stupid man should be 
joined to a bright vivacious woman. I do not hesitate to assert 
however, that the union of such extremes, as a general rule, 
would be more happy than the union of persons of similar char- 
acter. But in the exercise of good sense and judgment, the 
reader will understand that an excess in any direction is to be 
counteracted by a difference in the consort, which will in a 
harmonious degree correct the eccentricity. 
The inferences to be drawn from the chemical conditions of 
temperament are as follows: Where the Acid Temperament 
exists, it indicates an excess of one of the elements of chemical 
equilibrium and it should be neutralized by the opposition of 
the other element, viz. the Alkali. Acid persons will show in 
their conduct, in their vivacity and quick actions, rapid 
thoughts, and sometimes in sharpness of temper, the corrosive 
action of the excessive element. Alkali persons on the other 
hand show by their slow and deliberate action, the absence of 
the acid stimulant. When these temperaments are united har- 
moniously, a great beneficial mutual influence results. The 
alkali person is excited to quicker and more effective action; 
the acid person is soothed and restrained. The most important 
effect is shown in the result of sexual intercourse and in kisses 
and caresses. Sexual intercourse between two persons of the OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
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Alkali Temperament is stale, flat, and unprofitable; between two 
persons of the Acid Temperament it is irritating and exhaust- 
ing ; between persons harmoniously adapted in these particulars 
it is, when properly performed, exquisitely enjoyable and mutu- 
ally beneficial. The same results are experienced in a minor 
degree in the effects of kisses and caresses. The reader who 
will study the doctrines set forth by me in my divisions, Nos. 8 
and 4, will understand at once that it is impossible for parents 
possessing the same chemical conditions of temperament to 
produce perfect offspring or to experience the highest joys of 
the act of sexual intercourse. 
The Acid Temperament is distinguished by convexity of 
feature and sharpness of angles; the Alkali Temperament by 
concavity of features and the absence of angles. This is true 
both as to the general contour of the body and the outline of 
each feature. 
In the Acid Temperament the body is usually slender (never 
fat), angular in contour, and of medium weight. The face is 
pyriform, or oval, in general outline, convex in profile; the chin 
round—sometimes slightly retreating; the teeth sharp, and 
arranged in a convex form of jaw—sometimes projecting. The 
tongue is sharp and round, and the lips prominent, whether full 
or thin; the nose is not so sharp (generally Roman) ; but when 
the acidity is not so pronounced it may be straight. The eye- 
brows are prominent; cheekbones usually so; the forehead 
slightly retreating, and most prominent at the base. 
The Alkali Temperament is distinguished by the reverse of 
the foregoing conditions. The body is plump, often fat, rounded 
in contour; weight usually heavy. The face is round in general 
outline and concave in profile. The chin projects forward at 
the base. The teeth are flat, or receding in arrangement in the 
jaw, causing the mouth to fall in slightly, adding to the general 
concavity. The tongue is broad and flat; the lips usually finely 
formed, but concave; the nose concave, sometimes degenerating 
into a pug; the cheekbones and lower part of the forehead not 
prominent; the forehead flat above the eyebrows, bulging at the 
top, usually high and wide at the top. 12 
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When the Acid and Alkali Temperaments are blended in the 
individual, causing some of the features to take to acid and 
others the alkali forms, great care should be taken to select a 
consort having the opposite condition of each feature. It must 
be constantly borne in mind that the sweetness of sexual inter- 
course is always in direct proportion to the intensity of the 
magnetic current, and that this intensity depends upon feature 
being opposite to feature in harmonious conditions throughout 
the entire organization. For instance, the acidity expressed in 
the forehead of one person could not be harmoniously set 
against the alkali expressed in the chin of the consort, because 
the forehead and chin have no sexual correspondence. Each 
feature expresses the condition of a department of the organ- 
ization which must be harmoniously opposed by a different con- 
dition in the same department of the character of the consort. 
I am sometimes criticised by those who have only a smatter- 
ing of physiological knowledge for emphasizing too much the 
temperamental conditions of adaption. In the light of these 
explanations of effect, I think, the candid reader will agree 
with me that it is impossible to dwell too strongly upon their 
importance. It is also true, that when the temperaments are 
harmoniously adapted the sexual organs will also be adapted, 
unless there is some congenital deformity which makes the 
character so eccentric as to place it outside of all general rules 
for calculation. 
The temperament governs the form of the head and the rela- 
tive activity of the brain organs to a great degree. It will be 
found by examination that persons possessing the same tem- 
perament in all particulars will agree substantially in the 
development of the organs of the brain and in the manifest- 
ations of character. It is a general rule that the largest and 
most active organs of any given brain are more magnetic in 
their conditions than those which are smaller and less active. 
To secure perfect electro-magnetic opposition, it is therefore 
important that persons having very active and powerful 
development of the brain should select companions who are less 
powerful and active in these departments and more active and 
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instance. I advise those persons who are large in love to select 
those who are “medium” in development; but never advise them 
to select a person who is “small” in any department. There is 
a great difference in having an organ or group of organs 
medium in size and dormant in action, and therefore capable 
of being aroused to a great degree of enjoyment by the superior 
magnetism of a companion, and that condition which represents 
weakness and deformity. It is necessary for a man of large 
amative affection to select a woman of good, full, medium, or 
even large development; but if he is magnetic and positive in 
the action of this organ, she should be electric and negative, 
and then both will experience the highest degree of pleasure, 
because she will be capable of receiving his love, and he will 
be capable of furnishing enough to satisfy her. The same prin- 
ciple applies to all organs and groups of organs. A person who 
is strong in language, and who loves to talk, will be antagonized 
by one who possesses the same characteristics. On the other 
hand, he does not want a dumb person for a companion, but 
one who possesses the organ of language sufficiently large to 
ask questions and suggest further conversation but possessing 
a respective condition which may profitably absorb the inform- 
ation which the first person is so ready to impart. 
The careful observation of the rules of temperamental affinity 
which I have discussed in the preceding paragraphs constitutes 
the only method by which this congenial and agreeable relation- 
ship can be established. It may be remarked that the adapta- 
tion of conditions of organic quality are governed by the same 
general rules, persons possessing very great strength being 
benefited by association with those who have relatively greater 
delicacy and responsiveness, etc. 
Second. 
HOW TO TEST THE POSSIBILITY OF LOVE AND THE 
ENJOYMENT OF COMPANIONSHIP 
Courtship is an institution of modern society, designed to 
afford the prospective candidates for matrimony an opportunity 
to test their affections and to become acquainted with each 
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of the first principles of character study, the process is very 
much like bringing an ignorant boy or girl into the presence of 
an exquisite musical instrument and expecting such a novice to 
produce harmony. The ridiculous and destructive false modesty 
with which nearly all persons treat the subjects of marriage 
and the sexual relations precludes the possibility of giving 
intelligent instruction in most cases. 
I will also assume that the reader has selected a candidate 
who in physical aspect seems to realize the harmonious adapt- 
ation of the temperamental conditions; also, that the family 
history, the education, accomplishments, and personal appear- 
ance are satisfactory, and that both parties are actuated by a 
sincere desire to ascertain whether a congenial condition exists. 
As courtship is generally conducted, no intimacy is allowed 
until the young man has declared his love and proposed matri- 
mony. If the young lady for any reason thinks he is a desir- 
able match, she accepts him, and thereafter it is considered 
dishonorable to break off the match. The result is that the 
parties marry without any reasonable knowledge of conditions 
of happiness, and when the intimate association of marriage 
discloses their incompatibility it is too late to separate without 
scandal and loss of social position. 
I have shown how this unnatural condition of things can be 
avoided by the substitution of a rational system of selection. 
But as the plan outlined requires the co-operation of a number 
of persons who are well informed in relation to these topics, 
and as modern society does not contain the conditions of such 
co-operation, I shall endeavor to here set forth a modification of 
the plan, so that any individual may conduct his selection upon 
rational principles. 
I may as well remark that I consider that a woman has as 
much right to select a man for companionship as a man has to 
select a woman, and that a proposition leading to the experi- 
mental stage of courtship comes with propriety from either sex. 
The notion that a woman must passively await the advances of 
a man is a relic of barbarism, and owes its origin to the passive OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
15 
condition of the female slaves who awaited their purchasers 
in the mart. 
Begin your advances to a favored acquaintance with a declar- 
ation of admiration and respectful friendship, and a statement 
that you feel honored by a compact of fraternal affection. 
Declare your intention of soon selecting a permanent compan- 
ion, and request the privilege of intimate association and affec- 
tionate regard. Be careful, however, to state in explicit terms 
that you do not mean at this time to make a proposition of 
marriage but that you wish the opportunity to show your own 
excellencies and to test your feelings. If this declaration is 
made in diplomatic language and in a sincere manner, it is 
likely to be accepted, unless the person is antagonistic to you in 
some way, or is dominated by ideas of propriety founded upon 
false philosophy, or is perhaps precluded by circumstances from 
granting the request. When the proposal is accepted, and both 
parties cultivate intimacy with sincere desire to test the possi- 
bility of love, the following tests are invaluable: 
1. Clasp hands, and note the harmony or inharmony of the 
clasp itself, and the effect of its prolongation. If the hands do 
not seem to fit harmoniously, and if the contact becomes un- 
pleasant when prolonged, it is a sure sign that the dispositions 
will not harmonize. If the clasp is harmonious and the effect 
of prolonged contact continues to be agreeable it indicates that 
the general effect is harmonious; but there may be inharmon- 
ious conditions which this test will not reveal. 
2. In every intimate association kisses and caresses will 
reveal the most important information, if the parties are suffi- 
ciently instructed to make the tests intelligently. As a general 
rule, in courtship between refined persons, the advantages are so 
delicate and the contact of the parties so restricted that little 
is learned. To be of any value as tests, caresses and kisses 
must be exchanged with great freedom, and the kisses must be 
sufficiently passionate and complete to enable the parties to 
obtain the complete effect of the flavor of the fluid and the 
magnetic or electric effect of the caresses, and the parties must 
exercise sufficient jurisdiction over the passions to form a judg- 16 
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meat as to the effects of both. If this instruction is fully carried 
out, they will find that where the adaptation is reasonably per- 
fect, the caresses exert a highly beneficial effect, and that the 
kisses increase in sweetness and enjoyment is greater at each 
interview. If this result is not reached; if the kisses become 
repulsive and the caresses become wearisome, or the parties 
find that after complete and intimate association that love does 
not continually augment in intensity, the conditions of harmony 
are absent, and all thought of continued companionship should 
be dismissed; but the parties may continue to be affectionate 
friends as long as it is mutually agreeable. This judgment 
should not be formed hastily and I consider it unsafe to form 
a conclusion from any impression which may only be momen- 
tary. I recommend that this experiment should last at least six 
months unless the parties discover in a shorter time that it is 
positively disagreeable. In some of the best adaptations I have 
ever known it took some time for the best results to be estab- 
lished, especially in those cases where the parties were young 
and inexperienced, and had not learned the art of expressing 
the emotions freely. Love, like everything else, is a creature 
of growth, and takes time to develop. 
3. In walking together, keep step, and notice if it is an easy 
thing to do and if the gait of one is harmonious with the other. 
The walk is an unfailing indication of character, and it is 
impossible for persons to harmonize in character who exper- 
ience great difhcutly in keeping step or who tire each other by 
the walk. 
4. Notice the effect of conversation. If after a long inter- 
view you experience the feeling of fatigue and you find this the 
usual result, the character is inharmonious with your own. 
Language is the principal avenue of expression, and its effects 
cannot be too closely watched. If the conversation inspires you, 
and you feel rested and instructed after each interview, or this 
is the general result, the indications are in favor of harmony. 
5. Some nationalities are sufficiently well informed to know 
the desirability of previous tests of intimate association before 
marriage, and the custom of “bundling” among the Dutch, and OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
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similar customs among other nationalities, have their origin 
from a crude effort to establish a test of this kind. In the 
custom of “bundling” the male and female are each sewed up 
in sacks in such a manner that it is impossible to have sexual 
intercourse without rupturing the sacks, and thus being 
detected. In this condition they are allowed to sleep together 
and note the effects upon their feelings. Whatever may be the 
general result of such a custom, there is no question as to its 
value as a test. It is impossible for two persons to sleep 
together a number of nights without being conscious of in- 
creased affection and desire for companionship or the entire 
loss of such desire. The effect of sleeping together may be 
summed up as follows: If the parties are not harmonious, they 
will in a short time exhaust their magnetism to such a degree 
that all mutual attraction ceases. If they are harmonious the 
effect will be delightful, and the desire for its continuance will 
increase for a number of months. Then there will be a cul- 
mination in which no great degree of increase of desire will 
be felt, but it will continue to be a pleasant experience. If the 
parties are perfectly harmonious this may continue for many 
years, but as a general rule the pleasure of contact will be 
greatly intensified if they do not continually sleep together. If 
they are not perfectly harmonious, the magnetism will gradu- 
ally be lost, hence as very few couples are perfectly harmonious, 
it is a good rule to occupy separate beds, and sleep together 
occasionally as desire and expediency may dictate. The loss 
of magnetism, and the subsequent neutralizing of affection, will 
be slow or rapid in its progress as the parties are more or less 
harmonious. 
The period of experimental courtship may be as long or short 
as the prudence and the circumstances of the parties may 
dictate but I suggest that six months is not unreasonably long, 
and I also believe that any reasonable man or woman ought to 
be thoroughly satisfied of the results of such a test in one year 
of continued intimate association. In the meantime the matters 
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Third. 
HOW TO AVOID THOSE WHO ARE UNFIT FOR 
MATRIMONY BY DISEASE OR ORGANIC 
INCOMPLETENESS 
It is of the utmost importance that all persons who become 
parents of offspring should be able to transmit to such offspring 
bodies unimpaired by disease. Hereditary taints of insanity, 
consumption, syphilis, scrofula, and similar diseases exist, and 
it is impossible to prevent them from being handed down to the 
third and fourth generation unless every person who contem- 
plates parentage searches his own family history as well as that 
of the proposed consort for the evidence of these conditions. 
When a well defined tendency of this nature is found, there is 
no choice but to avoid the selection of such a person. I do not 
believe that persons tainted with hereditary disease should be 
deprived of a legitimate sexual association and the joys of 
congenial companionship, but I do insist that all such persons 
should avoid offspring. Reproduction should only be of the 
best. 
Hereditary diseases of the types mentioned above do not 
always appear upon the surface, and are not easily detected. 
Sometimes the effect skips one generation entirely, to reappear 
in the next. It is a good rule to remember that a woman is 
more likely to inherit the conditions of her father and that a 
man is more likely to inherit the conditions of his mother, and 
then search the family history of both acordingly. When this 
has been done, the conditions exhibited by the individual 
selected are to be closely observed. 
“The following points of female beauty are nature’s own 
advertisement of a healthy condition of the sexual system: 
“1. Large limbs, indicative of strength to sustain the body 
during the period of pregnancy. 
“2. Broad hips, indicative of a large pelvis, giving abdominal 
support during pregnancy, and easy delivery. 
“3. A relative narrow waist, indicating freedom from sup- 
pressed menstruation, and a proper expansion of the hips. OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
19 
(Note.—In a correct female figure the waist should measure, 
in circumference, two-fifths of the height, the hips at broadest 
part, nine inches more.) 
“4. Breasts, standing out prominently, firm in texture, with 
large nipples, and a bright pink aureolla surrounding nipples, 
free from discoloration, all of which indicates a correct con- 
dition of the womb. 
“5. A graceful carriage of the body, a springing, vigorous, 
rythmical step, a sweet breath, good teeth, clear complexion, 
pleasant musical voice, a well-shaped neck and back-head, red 
and full lips, and a well developed chin, projecting forward 
slightly, clear, bright, animated eyes, all are indispensable indi- 
cations of good sexuality, and any departure from these pecul- 
iarities is a warning that the female is in whole or in part 
unsexed and should be avoided in selecting a companion for 
matrimony.” 
The points enumerated in the last paragraph apply equally 
well to estimating the sexual strength of the male, with the 
addition of broad shoulders, deep chest and a contour of body 
broadest at the shoulders and tapering toward the feet. 
What is here stated as indicative of a healthy condition of 
the sexual system applies with equal force to the general health 
of the whole body. I will here add certain indications of 
inherited weaknesses which the reader may find very valuable. 
Inherited weakness of the heart is indicated by a narrow and 
receding chin, and a general unsteadiness of the walk and 
movements of the body and a lack of a graceful correlation of 
these movements. 
Constitutional weakness of the stomach and digestive organs 
is indicated by sunken cheeks and a general narrowness of the 
face across the lower part in a line with the mouth. 
Weakness of the lungs is indicated by narrowness of the face 
at the cheekbones, and if this is complicated with the weakness 
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consumptive diathesis. This will be emphasized if the chest is 
narrow and contracted and the nostrils are narrow, and small 
in size. 
Organic incompleteness is, in my opinion, the most fruitful 
cause of sexual misery, next to wholesale ignorance, of which 
it is the legitimate offspring. By organic incompleteness, I 
mean a rudimentary condition of the sexual organs of the body, 
of the sexual organs of the brain, or both. The sexual organs 
of the body are the penis and the testes, and those organs 
intimately associated with them in the function of reproduction. 
It is also evidenced by a general completeness of the face, espe- 
cially the lower part of it, and by a full, round chin. When 
these organs are small and incomplete it is evidenced by a 
deficient chin, and deficiency of the backhead and neck, which 
is very noticeable to anyone who has paid any attention to 
observing human characteristics. 
Some persons have only rudimentary sexual organs of the 
body. It is quite common for females who have never men- 
struated, and who have only rudimentary sexual organs, to 
marry, through the universal ignorance which exists on this 
subject. Of course, such persons are incapable of sexual desire 
or intercourse in any form, and yet they are frequently selected 
as wives by ignorant men. The consequences are deplorable 
in the extreme, often resulting in the most frightful personal 
injury by attempting intercourse where it is manifestly im- 
possible. This rudimentary condition results from arrested 
development, caused by paralysis of the organs in infancy. The 
same condition exists in the case of many men, whose sexual 
organs have never developed, owing to paralysis, neglect or 
disease. Such men are incapable of correct intercourse, or of 
satisfying the desires of any normally organized woman, and 
it is a truth that persons of either sex afflicted in this way can 
never expect anything in marriage but disappointment, unhap- 
piness and personal injury. 
Where there is organic incompleteness of the sexual organs 
of the body it is always evidenced by a deficient development 
of the organs of love in the brain and by a deficient chin, and 
also by a deranged condition of the circulation evidenced by OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
21 
clammy cold hands and feet. The eyes are dull or glassy in 
expression, and the mouth is always repulsive in appearance. 
A keen observer of human nature once remarked to me, “It 
is a safe rule never to fall in love with a woman, unless you can 
love her mouth.” 1 replied, “The rule applies to both sexes.” 
It is a curious fact that the organs of love in the brain may 
be so deficient that the individual may be utterly incapable of 
affection, and yet he may be sufficiently intellectual to learn to 
repeat the most ardent expressions of love in written or spoken 
language. It does not therefore follow that because a person 
is able to breathe the language of passion that he is able to 
experience it. And it does not even follow that he is insincere, 
for under the impulse of the weakest scintillation of love, he 
may make the most ardent expressions and sincerely believe 
that he means all he says, when he is simply repeating what he 
has learned in a literary way as the proper thing to say on 
such an occasion. The trained observer of human nature would 
never be deceived, however, as he would be able to estimate, 
before a word was spoken, what the possibilities of the person 
would be in the experience of a natural passion. And those 
who have trained the sense of taste to discriminate in the flavor 
of kisses would not be deceived, because persons who are 
afflicted with organic incompleteness are incapable of giving 
a kiss which is sweetened by love. 
Right here I wish to say, that the reason a kiss from a loved 
and loving human is sweeter than a similar caress received 
from an animal is because the human being is organically more 
complete. A kiss from a reptile would be so destitute of flavor 
that it would not be desirable to any well organized person, 
even if he were friendly to the reptile, as all persons should be. 
A kiss from a dog would be several degrees better, and I have 
seen some ladies kiss and fondle their dogs with evident relish, 
although I could not but criticise their taste as long as reason- 
ably decent manhood was obtainable. When I observed that 
their husbands used tobacco, I could not blame them for pre- 
ferring the dogs. But the dog as compared with a gentleman 
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sole reason that he has a smaller brain and fewer faculties of 
intelligence with which to sweeten the expression. The more 
complete the manhood or womanhood of a person, the sweeter 
and richer will be the flavor of a kiss. It is this fact which 
gives to the kiss its great value as a test, and those persons who 
are afflicted with organic incompleteness will give kisses which 
are as destitute of flavor as those of the lower animals. A 
superbly sexed woman remarked to me once, in speaking of an 
incomplete man, “I would as soon kiss a toad!” There was 
more philosophy than contempt in the remark. 
Foukth. 
HOW TO CONDUCT A MAGNETIC COURTSHIP 
Assuming that the reader has made a successful selection, 
according to the principles announced in the foregoing sections, 
and that he is himself a complete specimen of manhood, the fol- 
lowing suggestions will be useful. I direct my remarks to the 
man for conventional reasons, but there is no difference in the 
application of the principles in the case of the woman: 
First of all, remember that in order to make the proper 
impression both parties must be well informed on these topics, 
else you are likely to waste all of your magnetism where it is 
not appreciated. When a lady and gentleman know the facts, 
and they test each other intelligently, great profit results from 
the mutual respect called out by the display of each other’s 
powers. The following rules will enable the reader to make all 
necessary tests: 
1. Study carefully the strong and weak points of the pro- 
posed consort, and remember that all strong organs manifest 
themselves by positive action, and that this action gives the 
greatest enjoyment to their possessor. Now, when you want to 
make a fine impression, call these organs into action, and let 
them have a full expression. The person thus experimented 
upon will enjoy your company exceedingly and think you have 
given her an opportunity to display her powers. 
One of the most popular women I ever knew explained the 
secret of her power to me in these words: “I always find out OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
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what the person I am conversing with likes to talk about the 
most, and then ask questions on that subject.” On the other 
hand, the most insufferable bore is the man who insists on 
talking about his own affairs or the subjects he alone is inter- 
ested in. 
2. When dealing with a receptive and attentive listener who 
encourages you with questions, let yourself out, and be as enter- 
taining as possible. But be sure you know something to say. 
3. When you see that your associate is excited, vivacious and 
anxious to talk, become negative at once and receptive and show 
a lively sympathetic interest. 
4. Never talk for the sake of talking and keeping up the 
conversation. If you have nothing to say, keep quiet. It is a 
sublime test of congeniality for two persons to be in each 
other’s company for half an hour and be able to be happy 
without talking. 
5. Never giggle. It is the most exhaustive action young 
people are guilty of. A great many young men and women 
think it is necessary to giggle at everything a friend of the 
other sex says. This strained effort exhausts magnetism of 
your brain, and leaves you powerless to say anything really 
bright. When a bright remark is made, smile serenely or come 
back in repartee brilliantly, if you can. If it is very funny, 
laugh heartily. 
6. In exchanging kisses and caresses, have an understanding 
which shall be positive and which negative. Change the condi- 
tions as frequently as you please, but do not oppose positive to 
positive, or negative to negative. While one is declaring his 
passion and pouring out his love in a positive caress, the other 
should be sweetly receptive, but express appreciation; and when 
the first has exhausted his strain, and become in turn negative, 
it may be returned with a full measure. 
7. The most important fact is to closely observe the proposed 
consort, and see if she is capable of receiving your love and 
appreciating it. There is the same difference in capacity in 
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to liquids. Some delicate and undersized capacities are over- 
whelmed, surfeited, and disgusted by the expressions of those 
of large and perhaps coarser organizations, while these in 
turn are starved by the inability of their consorts to give them 
the full, rich expression for which they crave. Measure the 
capacity carefully, but do not overtax it at first. Many a 
woman has been disgusted by the extreme passion of a man, 
who would have responded fully to it if she had been given 
time to comprehend it. It is a fine art—to know just how much 
passion to express so as to fill the measure of happiness, but 
not to overflow and surfeit it. Sexual passion is like the 
appetite for food, or any other appetite. It is attractive while 
it is hungry; it revels in satisfaction; but it is repulsive when 
surfeited. Love your sweetheart passionately and devotedly, 
but do not overdo it. Keep your dignity. Give kisses and 
caresses freely where they are gratefully received, but be on 
your guard and quit at the right time. Go home before mid- 
night, and leave her in a condition in which she will welcome 
your next visit. 
Fifth. 
HOW TO PRESERVE THE HARMONIES WHEN THEY 
HAVE BEEN SECURED 
1. Remember that the present form of marriage ceremony is 
absurd, and that because a woman has promised to love and 
honor you, it does not follow that she can do it, even if she 
tries. You must be lovable and honorable in your conduct, 
and, in the words of the new marriage ceremony given in 
“Love and Cherish,,, PRESENT YOURSELF TO HER DAILY 
IN THE MOST LOVABLE AND COMPANIONABLE AS- 
PECT OF WHICH YOU ARE CAPABLE. This rule, con- 
scientiously applied on both sides, will pretty nearly solve the 
problem. 
2. Do not remain constantly in each other’s society. The 
electro-magnetic condition will neutralize in spite of all you 
may feel to the contrary. Be together enough to have a delight- 
ful companionship, get all the enjoyment and satisfaction there 
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25 
men and women. By going into society you exchange magnet- 
ism with others, and come back to each other constantly 
renewed. It is the hardest thing in the world to teach the 
average married man and woman that the reason they have 
become stale and flat to each other is because they have been 
too much together, and have not renewed their electro-magnetic 
conditions by coming in contact with others of the other sex. 
It is the prevailing habit even in social gatherings for the 
married men to get together and the married women to flock 
by themselves. This form of social intercourse is better than 
nothing, but married women need the companionship, conver- 
sation and social contact of other men than their husbands, 
AND MARRIED MEN NEED THE CONTACT OF GOOD WOMEN IN THE 
SAME WAY. Of course all the prudes will throw up their hands 
in holy horror at this last sentence, but I am writing scientific 
truth, not caring at all for your criticism. 
3. In applying the foregoing rule, do not slight your consort. 
Have a distinct understanding when and where you shall 
indulge in association with others, and at such a time if it 
happens that you come in contact with your consort, show the 
most distinguished consideration. 
4. In your intimate social contact never forget the pro- 
prieties. I really think most married couples lose more on this 
point than any other. In matters of the toilet and at all times 
when you appear at a disadvantage preserve the strictest 
privacy. I know a great many good but ignorant people who 
think that any indecency is permissible between persons who 
are married. The present form of marriage undoubtedly edu- 
cates people to forget all the decencies as soon as the contract 
is made. But love cannot exist except under constant culture, 
and wretched are they who forget this rule. 
5. Sleep in separate beds and only sleep together on occa- 
sions of special indulgence. Make the general rule of your 
sexual intercourse, kisses, and caresses correspond to the facts 
set forth in the fourth section of this instruction, and let your 
entire association be a magnetic courtship, never carried to a 
surfeit, never characterized by the indulgence of lust, but 
always a feast of unselfish, considerate love. 26 
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Sixth. 
Jealousy is the legitimate child of the modern form of mar- 
riage, in which the man and wife are educated to believe that 
each is the property of the other. A great many men and 
women are naturally selfish and suspicious. The selfish idea 
dominates, and when a selfish individual purchases a desirable 
consort in the matrimonial market he naturally wishes to 
deprive all others of the pleasures she may be able to bestow. 
The man or woman who submits to the selfish dictation of such 
a consort is a coward and a slave, and sacrifices all happiness 
and self-respect as cowards and slaves generally do. 
When the association of the consorts is entirely exclusive, as 
it usually is in marriage, and sexual intercourse is indulged in 
to an extent which creates a surfeit, a species of insanity is 
developed and the individual is guilty of absurd and insuffer- 
able actions. He treats his consort with suspicion, and acts 
as if he believed she were a prostitute, ready to make an 
appointment with the first man she meets. Bear in mind that 
all my remarks on these subjects apply equally to both sexes. 
Jealousy of this kind usually happens where the victim (the 
jealous person) is inflicted with an inferior organization. I 
pity the man or the woman who is obliged to live with such a 
consort. Life is too short to spend it with lunatics or bar- 
barians. 
The cure for jealousy, where it is not caused by insanity as 
above stated, is the enforcement of the doctrine that all men 
and women are free, and that no one is entitled to love unless 
he can win it by good behavior and genuine lovableness. No 
man or woman should be required to love another one moment 
after that person has become hateful. As soon as this doctrine 
is accepted jealousy will disappear, because it is in itself dis- 
agreeable and prevents love. As long as disagreeable persons 
can claim love as a right granted by law, and not to be deserved 
by good action, jealousy will be a popular pastime among 
inferior, selfish and suspicious men and women. 
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27 
Seventh. 
THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVORCE 
1 will not here enter into an argument, but will simply state 
the proposition. 
The only reasons why a man and woman should ever join in 
a compact of marriage are these: 
1. Their mutual gratification of love and enjoyable compan- 
ionship. 
2. The production of offspring. 
3. Mutual support of themselves and offspring. 
If the union has become insupportable to either party mutual 
gratification of love and enjoyable companionship has disap- 
peared, and the first of these objects is a failure. 
If perfect love and mutual gratification is destroyed the pro- 
duction of good offspring is impossible and the production of 
depraved offspring is assured, and the union should be dis- 
solved in the interests of humanity as well as of the parties. 
When the parties have become antagonized, mutual support 
of themselves is in a large measure destroyed, their improve- 
ment and progress is arrested, and their offspring already in 
existence neglected. But consideration of future offspring should 
overbalance consideration of those already existing, as it is 
better for a well organized child to suffer neglect than for one 
to be born of an unhappy union foreordained to suffer all his 
life the ills of an unnatural condition of organization. 
I do not advocate the capricious rupture of the domestic rela- 
tions for trivial pretences, but I hold that every man and 
woman is the final judge of the question of his or her relation- 
ship, and should not suffer a disagreeable condition or to appeal 
to the courts for a remedy. And I hold further, that the 
knowledge that either party is free to rupture the union puts 
the other party on his good behavior to maintain and preserve 
it. Most of the tyrannical and disagreeable actions of husbands 
and wives which produce the misery of matrimony grow out of 
the inability of the other party to escape. 28 
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When this philosophy is recognized, and sexual associations 
is placed upon the plane of love, instead of being as now a 
commercial commodity, happiness will be possible, and educa- 
tion will make it a certainty; and when a matrimonial mistake 
is committed, the parties will be permitted to rectify it, and 
after a divorce is granted, they may remain good friends, pro- 
moting each other’s welfare by every means in their power, 
instead of degenerating into hateful enemies, as is usually the 
case under the present system. 
The careful observation of the rules contained in this instruc- 
tion will reduce the possibility of divorce to a minimum, because 
under the conditions herein directed to be produced, the con- 
stant growth of love will be a fact. 
Beloved reader, you may be able to comprehend it, and so 
live that you will be worthy of a beautiful and harmonious 
consort, the sweetest and best of all of Nature’s gifts to man. 
And when you have thrilled with the transports of the inde- 
scribable ecstacies of a correct sexual association, and have 
prolonged the harmonies through many years of delicious 
experiences, as a consequence of this instruction, you will have 
realized the hopes and experienced the joys of life. THE SECOND DIVISION 
(Six Parts) The Embarrassments of Wedlock 
and Their Removal 
First. 
CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO PERFECT HAPPINESS 
If reproduction is the highest privilege of mankind, as it 
surely is, then certainly as much attention should be paid to 
the intelligent study of the act of reproduction as to any subject 
within the intelligent grasp of mankind. Yet, strange to say, 
this is the only book ever written in which an attempt has been 
successfully made to explain scientific conditions underlying the 
physical details. Their instructions herein given are based upon 
the following cardinal propositions: 
2. That THE PERFECTION OF OFFSPRING IS ALWAYS IN EXACT 
PROPORTION TO THE .PLEASURE EXPERIENCED BY THE PARENT IN 
PRODUCING THEM. 
3. The act of copulation is designed not only for reproduc- 
tion of offspring, but also for the fortification and reproduction 
of the powers of the participants. 
Following this line of argument I wish to show: 
1. The conditions essential to perfect production. 
2. The conditions essential to the highest development of 
enjoyment. 
3. The evils attendant upon excessive, unnatural, and im- 
moral use of the sexual functions. 
4. The benefits derived from the correct use of these powers 
in the perfection of offspring, the enjoyment of sexual relations, 
and the development of self-control. 
5. The full explanation of this extraordinary doctrine that 
by the proper employment of the sexual relations, organs of the OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
31 
brain can be enlarged and strengthened, and various forms of 
disease can be cured. This is a most startling and revolution- 
ary doctrine, but one which is demonstrably true. 
There is no more fruitful source of human misery than 
AN IMPROPER SEXUAL INTERCOURSE. THERE IS NO PLEASURE SO 
ECSTATIC AS THAT WHICH ACCOMPANIES THE CREATIVE ACT, 
WHEN SURROUNDED BY RROPER CONDITIONS. 
Nothing is so conducive to health, happiness, longevity, and 
prosperity as a proper sexual condition and association with a 
companion of the opposite sex who is the sexual affinity. 
These postulates are accepted by the entire scientific world, 
but where is the teacher who attempts to instruct the rising 
generation concerning these proper or improper conditions 
which surround the highest function of man’s physical exist- 
ence? The man who in the face of the warped and prejudiced 
public sentiment of the times attempts to lift the cloud of 
ignorance and pour upon this subject the light of scientific 
truth is entitled to the gratitude, moral and financial support of 
all enlightened, intelligent, and progressive people. 
Many thousands of men and women have been instructed in 
the principles of correct cohabitation. The terse rules here laid 
down are the result of many private interviews with all classes, 
married, single, virtuous, prostitute, rakes, clergymen, physi- 
cians, learned and unlearned, male and female. 
Read and ponder, all who seek enjoyment, beauty, virtue, 
love, offspring, health and prosperity, and if you can bring one 
single, natural fact to militate against the principles herein 
propounded, do so and let me know. 
Second. 
THE CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL TO THE PERFECT 
DEVELOPMENT OF SEXUAL HARMONY 
Nature has ordained that the best possible conditions of 
reproduction should be attendant with the highest possible 
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enjoy sexual intercourse fully, man is doubly rewarded by 
experiencing the ecstatic emotions and at the same time insur- 
ing the perfection of his offspring. 
The male and female must be mature and of appropriate age, 
and of the same race. 
Mature age in the male is usually reached at twenty-five, and 
in the female at twenty, within the meaning of this article. 
As a general rule an appropriate age between the parties con- 
sists in the male being from three to five years older than the 
female. This rule will vary much according to the constitu- 
tion and habits of the parties, and the influence of climate, but 
for the best results should not be more than ten years and the 
female should always be the younger. Intercourse between dif- 
ferent races is always degrading and if offspring results, it 
will be inferior to either parent. 
The parties must be free from disease. 
In proportion as either party is diseased, the pleasure of 
sexual intercourse and perfection of offspring will be impaired. 
Diseases of the sexual organs are always destructive of enjoy- 
ment, and take away the reciprocal pleasure which is a para- 
mount condition of sexual happiness. 
The Parties Must Be Adapted to Each Other in. 
Relation to the Size and Proportions of the Or- 
gans of Reproduction and in Sexual Magnetism or 
the Mutual Attraction and Repulsion Which Ex- 
ists Between Certain Temperaments of the Species. 
There is much diversity in the formation of the sexual organs 
with relation to size, shape, and quality of texture. The penis 
in different males will vary from less than two to more than 
twelve inches in length. There is a corresponding variety of 
dimensions in circumference and proportion. The vagina of the 
female will differ likewise, and as much in all these particulras. 
A male of large dimensions of penis, copulating with a female 
of small dimensions will invariably produce pain, besides dis- 
locating the womb and its appendages and bring on a fearful 
train of ills called prolapsus uteri, or falling of the womb. OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
33 
Where the penis is small and the vagina large, the act fails to 
give pleasure to the female, leaving her unsatisfied after intense 
sexual excitement, and as equally productive of disease as the 
first condition. The highest pleasure of the female is derived 
from a perfect fit of the penis and vagina, causing the titila- 
tion of the mouth of the womb by the head of the penis, and 
allowing the vagina to contract around the penis along the 
whole length of the organ. Without these conditions much 
inconvenience is experienced. 
The parties must be adapted in sexual magnetism. This 
sexual magnetism exists in all persons to a greater or less de- 
gree, and it attracts or repels according as the conditions of 
temperament and mental calibre are favorable or unfavorable 
to the production of perfect offspring. 
There is very little exchange of magnetism between persons 
of the same sex or those nearly related. You may be physio- 
logically related and have as little exchange of magnetism be- 
tween a husband and wife over whom a dozen marriage cere- 
monies may have been said as between an actual brother and 
sister, and the marriage in such a case is physiologically in- 
cestuous. 
For a full exposition of the causes and effects of sexual mag- 
netic affinity the reader is referred to Division 4 of this volume. 
The Act Must Be Entirely Voluntary on Both 
Sides, and the Enjoyment Must Be PwEciprocal. 
Sexual intercourse must be voluntary, and must be entered 
into by both parties with the liveliest anticipations of pleasure 
on both sides, and a sympathetic desire to confer pleasure. This 
explains why intercourse between parties who have married for 
financial or social reasons merely, is attended with such dire 
consequences. Where it is merely a commercial transaction, as 
with a prostitute, who does not manifest attachment and 
pleasure, it is simply double masturbation. Wives who simply 
submit passively to their husbands, and from prudery or other 
motives, refuse to enter fully into the spirit and passion of 
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reward in unfaithful husbands, sometimes brutal treatment, 
and always in the loss of the greatest pleasure in existence, and 
produce inferior offspring, if any. 
The natural instinct of both male and female craves the evi- 
dent enjoyment of the consort as the chief element of pleasure 
in the enjoyment of the function; disappointment in this results 
in a revulsion of feeling, transforming love into hatred of the 
most intense type. Ponder on this statement all ye passive, 
prude, and indifferent wives, and find in it a solution of the 
cause of all your unhappy relations with your husbands. The 
shrewd prostitute on whom he lavishes his money, time and en- 
dearments, may not feel any more pleasure in his embraces 
than you do, but she makes him believe that he is the only man 
in the world who can give her ecstatic pleasure that she stimu- 
lates. Therefore, all who attempt such an intercourse must give 
expression to the liveliest emotions of pleasure to afford 
reciprocal enjoyment to the companion. 
The Act Should Be Performed at a Time When 
Vitality and Sexual Magnetism are at the High- 
est Degree. 
In a perfect sexual interview, vitality and magnetism must be 
at their highest degree. This prohibits intercourse whenever 
disease or temporary injury has reduced vitality, whenever the 
system is strained and tired from exhaustive labor, whenever 
the mind is wrought upon by excitement, grief, or anxiety, or 
any other condition which would interfere with enjoyment. 
The best time for intercourse is during the early morning on 
awakening after a refreshing slumber. The vital forces are 
then highest and the participants are able to enjoy the ex- 
hilarating influence of a proper intercourse and feel much 
benefited for the labor of the day. 
Sexual Intercourse Should Always Be a Prolonged 
Enjoyment and Should Always Be Performed 
Under Circumstances Which Involve a Perfect 
Security, Happy Frame of Mind, Freedom From 
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Complete Comfort, and Which Allow Plenty of 
Time for Its Commencement and Completion, Ac- 
cording to the Rule Herein Set Forth. 
It is a fact that more than seventy-five percent of men 
ARE UNABLE TO PROPERLY PROLONG THE SEXUAL ACT. It is an 
almost universal experience, that as soon as the sexual organs 
are brought into contact, the emission of semen occurs, and the 
female is left unsatisfied. If the male is unusually strong in 
sexual power, he is able in a short time to produce another 
erection and emission, but these repeated orgasms are always 
injurious and unnatural. Where the male is unable to do this 
THE FEMALE BEING LEFT IN AN EXCITED AND UNSATISFIED CON- 
DITION, EXPERIENCES THE MOST PAINFUL DISAPPOINTMENT, AND 
DISEASES OF SERIOUS NATURE ARE ENGENDERED. 
The only correct intercourse is that in which both 
PARTIES REACH THE FORM OF SATISFACTION DESIRED. To be able 
to produce this is an accomplishment worthy of the most patient 
and conscientious effort to obtain. I have been repeatedly con- 
sulted by men who believe that the inability to retain the semen 
and to have a satisfactory intercourse was the result of disease, 
“lost manhood,” and a great many men believe it to be the 
natural condition and hence never take any pains to overcome it. 
Personal experience and the result of years of observation, prac- 
tice, and instruction have convinced me that all of those views 
are erroneous. While it is true that debility of the sexual sys- 
tem might be attended with this result, I have found hundreds 
of men who were in excellent health in every way, who are 
unable to control the orgasm for any length of time until in- 
structed, when the difficulty immediately disappeared. In the 
majority of cases this embarrassment arises entirely from 
ignorance. This ignorance will be removed by the contemplation 
of the following facts: 
The sexual organs are organs of sense. As an eye senses 
light, so the sexual organs sense gender. The delightful sensa- 
tions of the act of sexual intercourse are simply the intense im- 
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Where the companion is not well-sexed and very little mag- 
netism is given or received, the sensations are very tame. The 
sexual organ of the male is strictly analogous to the eye in con- 
struction. The parts of the female are strictly adapted to those 
of the male. Those sexual eyes receive and transmit the gender 
of the companion in precisely the same way that the eye re- 
ceives and transmits the impression of the light of an image, 
and it follows that the sexual organs are subject to the same 
conditions as those which governs the eyes. 
If you were to treat your eyes the same as the average man 
treats his sexual organs, you would be blind in less than a week. 
Imagine the eyes covered with hot, sweaty flannel, bandaged 
from contact with air and light, seldom bathed, and the cir- 
culation of all the surrounding parts impaired, and you can 
imagine that, after a few days of such treatment, they would be 
in such a condition that, if exposed to the ligth and required to 
perform their duty, they would be utterly unable to respond. In 
such a case precisely the same results would happen to the eyes 
that occur to these sexual organs. The eyes would be dazzled 
by the light, the person would be unable to control the vision, 
and ther would be a spasm of nervous action entirely beyond 
the control of the owner. This is precisely what occurs to the 
owner of sexual organs which have been kept in the usual con- 
dition, swaddled in a roll of flannel or cotton with the circulation 
impaired by tight-fitting clothing, deprived of light and air, and 
frequently in a condition of filth which only those who make 
professional examinations can fully appreciate. It is proper to 
add here that the almost universal sentiment, that the sexual 
organs are dishonorable, and to be held in contempt, and that 
there is something inherently nasty about them, has in a large 
measure caused this condition. Convince a man that a part of 
his body is naturally filthy and he will allow it to become so in 
fact. The loss of pride in sexual strength which this doctrine 
has inculcated is almost increditable. 
It is also true that the majority of men are habitually con- 
stipated. In nearly every case there is an habitual accumulation 
of foecal matter in the rectum, which presses against the deli- OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
37 
cate nerves and blood vessels of the sexual organs and produces 
a temporary paralysis, which sometimes becomes permanent. 
While this constipated condition lasts it is impossible 
FOR ANY MAN TO PROPERLY CONTROL THE SEXUAL ORGANS. When 
the bowels are open and free from accumulations, the sexual 
nerves perform their functions, self-control is possible, and 
greater pleasure is sure to be experienced. There is no greater 
room for the accumulation of semen, as the seminal reservoirs 
are directly between the bladder and the rectum. 
From the foregoing facts I have reduced the following prop- 
ositions, which furnish a solution of the problem before us: 
First, get into proper condition. Second, remove the consti- 
pation. Third, practice the art of self-control. 
To get into proper condition it is necessary to remember that 
nudity is the natural condition of man and that the wearing of 
clothing is an unnatural habit, contracted through the excursions 
of our ancestors into those climates to which they were not 
accustomed, through their greed of acquisition of territory and 
conquest. While custom compels us to retain the practice we 
can in a measure counteract its effects. Practice carefully the 
following rules: 
1. Expose the body to sunlight, air, and friction as much as 
possible. Bathe frequently and practice alternate shocks of cold 
and heat in bathing. Be sure that the sexual organs have plenty 
of exposure, friction, heat, cold, light and sunshine. Bathe the 
sexual organs at least twice a day in cold water and see that all 
sebaceous matter is removed from under the foreskin. 
2. Wear loose clothes and see that the sexual organs are sus- 
pended on their own muscles and not supported by the panta- 
loons or swaddled in rolls of underclothing. Let them hang 
loose and receive the friction of the clothing in walking. Wear 
as light clothing as can be worn with safety and comfort, 
especially in summer, and have the shirt so short that it does 
not cover the sexual organs. Let the pantaloons hang low and 
be careful that no article of clothing is worn that will in any 
way impair free circulation. Sleep under light bed-clothing and 
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3. Those who are in any way debilitated from the effects of 
self-abuse or inherent weakness should never resort to the 
ignorant method of quacks and attempt to restore vitality by 
the use of pernicious drugs. The best remedial treatment 
possible to bring permanent and lasting results will be found 
elsewhere in this work. 
To remove constipation do not take pills, but use exercise 
and massage, which will be explained more fully elsewhere in 
this work. Always empty the bowels and bladder at frequent 
intervals, which will give you greater freedom and thus enable 
you to prolong the act of intercourse and greatly increase the 
possibilities of pleasure. 
To reach perfect control of the sexual act some special drill 
is often necessary. It is true here as elsewhere that practice 
makes perfect. Very few men ever approach the act of sexual 
intercourse except in a blaze of passion which makes any form 
of deliberate action impossible. To all such persons I commend 
the following rules: 
1. Keep cool. Do not be a fool, and do not disgust the 
female by your evident desire to satisfy your passion at her 
expense, without considering her enjoyment. Be deliberate in 
all your actions and do not be in a hurry. 
2. Spend at least fifteen minutes in caressing endearments 
before you begin intercourse. This will enable you to compose 
your nerves and to obtain greater control and will allow the 
lubricating fluids which are secreted in both sides to begin to 
flow. If the female does not furnish a copious flow in this 
length of time, which will sometimes be the case, anoint the 
penis thoroughly with vaseline or sweet oil, especially under the 
foreskin. 
3. Begin intercourse by making up your mind that you will 
control yourself and that you will not emit the semen until you 
get ready to do so voluntarily. Resolution is a great aid to the 
accomplishment. Press the penis gently but firmly into the 
vagina, being careful not to be rough or impetuous. After the 
entrance is effected and the penis has passed the constriction of OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
39 
them and his pleasure highly augmented, and sexual power and 
the lips there is less danger of losing control. If you feel doubt- 
ful of your self-control, withdraw, lie down and cool your nerves 
until you feel that the tendency toward the emission has been 
overcome, then repeat the process. The entrance and with- 
drawal of the penis should be practiced until you can do it with 
perfect impunity, and if you fail at first and have an emission, 
do not be discouraged.1 Keep up the practice, and every attempt 
will increase your power of self-control, until at last you will be 
able to enter and remove as freely as you desire without losing 
control. When you reach this stage, you are a master of the 
situation. 
The exchange of sexual magnetism is the prime factor of all 
pleasure, the creative force which begets all offspring, and in 
proportion as it is intense or weak will sex pleasure be intensi- 
fied or destroyed, and offspring perfected or deteriorated. In 
view of these facts, the value of other principles herein shown 
which describe the adaptability to produce the most force of 
this magnetic element may be appreciated. 
A period of preparation, before intercourse begins, is abso- 
lutely necessary to the generation of this magnetic fluid. It is 
most easily excited by the contact of these parts which are best 
supplied with nerves of sensation. The sexual organs them- 
selves, the hands, the eyes, the breast of the female, the testicles 
of the male, the lips and tongue, are all filled with nerves, all 
connected with the organs of love in the brain, and from this 
fact we see the philosophy of kissing, loving glances, clasping 
hands, manipulations of the breasts and sexual organs, as well 
as other parts of the body, all of which are necessary preludes 
to this intercourse, and should be indulged in freely and 
reciprocally for at least a half hour, or any limited time, to 
bring about proper magnetic conditions, before the act of coition. 
The neglect of this preliminary exercise is a frequent 
CAUSE OF PREMATURE EMISSION IN HEALTHY MALES WHO COPU- 
LATE WITH PROPERLY adapted females, because the magnetic 
influence has not been allowed to generate. Nature abhors an 
intercourse without this magnetic element and sets her seal of 
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male to throw off the semen before the female reaches the 
climax, whenever intercourse is attempted without this prepa- 
ration or by parties sexually related, between whom there can 
be no intense magnetic exchange. Every healthy female reaches 
the climax slowly in order to give time for the magnetic gen- 
eration. When the magnetic exchange is at its height the male 
should have perfect control of himself and may postpone the 
climax until the female is fully ready. The female, likewise, 
should have control of the sexual emotions completely. And 
thus the act may be prolonged at pleasure and may be termi- 
nated by a mutual climax when both parties have been fed to 
satisfaction by the mutual and reciprocal exchange of sexual 
magnetism, which should never be less than one-half hour after 
entrance, and may be prolonged to one or two hours with no 
worse effect than the ecstatic gratification of both. 
7. Positions, manipulations, and caresses are important 
factors in proper intercourse. Ignorance of these details is the 
most frequent cause of unhappy results between parties mutually 
adapted. The recumbent position of the female with the weight 
of the male upon her is fatiguing and cannot be maintained for 
the time necessary for proper intercourse. It also prevents her 
having the free use of herself necessary for the proper move- 
ment for the act. She should lie upon her back at first, spread- 
ing the limbs well apart, and presenting the vulva to the free 
access of the male. Many wives fail in this and from prudery 
and other motives keep the limbs close, which delays entrance 
and disappoints the male to whom nothing is more delightful 
than a free entrance. When entrance has been well effected the 
male should ease himself over and recline upon his back or left 
side upon the bed with his face toward her, lifting his right leg 
and carrying it over with her left leg. At the same time she 
turns slightly upon her right side and clasps her limbs closely 
around his left leg. This position may be maintained without 
fatigue to either, or may be reversed by changing sides. The 
parts are thus brought more closely together and, what is more 
important, the testicles are lifted from contact with the cold 
sheet and clasped in this warm embrace of the limbs when, at 
every moment, warm, strong pressure is brought to bear upon 
offspring, who are sure to be inferior without it, by causing the OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
41 
magnetism redoubled. If the testicles are suffered to come in 
contact with a cold substance, or if they are not pressed con- 
tinually, the male magnetism is checked and his pleasure is lost. 
The left hand of the male should clasp the neck of the female 
under the organ of amativeness, which will be greatly excited 
thereby, while his right hand should continually caress her face, 
hair, breast, etc. Endearing words and lively conversation, 
laughter, etc., should be freely used, and the eyes should be em- 
ployed in endearing glances, each feasting on the personal 
charms of the other, hence intercourse should best not be in- 
dulged in in the dark, or under any circumstances not per- 
mitting the utmost freedom of proper expression. 
Most men ruin the pleasure of intercourse by violent strokes 
and movements in the first stages. For some time after 
entrance the movements should be slow and gentle, and should 
be more dependent upon the movements of hearty caressing than 
used to excite the penis and vagina. 
Caresses are indispensable and should be constantly employed 
during the entire duration of the intercourse. Kisses should be 
freely exchanged with the perfect abandon of passion. The lips 
and tongue are furnished with innumerable and most susceptible 
nerves which when brought in contact produce the most ex- 
quisite sensation. The fluids of the mouth are far superior to 
the most delightful nectar when tasted under the circumstances 
of perfect sexual intercourse. To render it so, and to make this 
perfect intercourse absolutely delightful, involves, of course, 
habits of scrupulous cleanlines in respect to the mouth and 
teeth, as well as attention to proper food, digestion, and the 
condition of the stomach. This rule of cleanliness, of course, 
applies to all parts of the body. Any neglect in these particulars 
may cause disgust on the part of the companion, and however 
temporary, is destructive of enjoyment. 
Frequency of sexual intercourse should be regulated by the 
feeling of the parties and may be readily determined after a 
few trials. It should never be indulged in to such an extent 
that the parties lose the peculiar feeling of exaltation and 
exuberance which always results from a proper intercourse. 
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AND ON EITHER SIDE, WITH THE HAPPIEST RESULTS TO BOTH, PRO- 
VIDED THE ACT HAS BEEN PROPERLY PERFORMED, SO THAT EACH 
HAS BEEN FULLY FED WITH SEXUAL MAGNETISM. The Actual 
climax will be found to be only a small part of the pleasure of 
such an interview as this instruction contemplates. The re- 
tention OF THE SEMEN IS HIGHLY BENEFICIAL TO THE MALE*, 
provided is is not effected by artificial compression of the 
natural channels of egress. And furthermore, any excess in the 
loss of this semen is detrimental and often brings about a feel- 
ing of disgust toward the person on whom it is wasted. 
Third. 
THE EVILS ATTENDANT UPON EXCESSIVE, UN- 
NATURAL, AND IMMORAL USE OF THE 
SEXUAL FUNCTIONS 
For lack of instruction upon the principles enumerated in the 
preceding section, the greatest abuses of the sexual organs have 
occurred and have gone on for centuries without any intelligent 
effort being made to correct them. As a consequence, the 
human race has deteriorated and man has been made a slave of 
his passions, as well as a slave of the priests and kings and 
politicians who have inaugurated and perpetuated the prevailing 
system of ignorance, oppression and violence. It is impossible 
to enumerate all of the evils, but the following have impressed 
themselves upon the author as being the most deplorable and at 
the same time most easily corrected in the light of intelligent 
instruction: 
Excessive Sexual Intercourse. Men and women who do 
NOT GET A SATISFACTORY EXPERIENCE IN SEXUAL JOYS DO NOT 
EXPERIENCE A SATISFACTION OF THE PASSIONS. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE 
FOR THE AVERAGE MAN TO HAVE CORRECT INTERCOURSE, AS HAS 
ALREADY BEEN SAID, HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW. CONSEQUENTLY 
HE INDULGES TO A RUINOUS EXTENT AND THUS PRODUCES AN IRRI- 
TATED AND INFLAMED CONDITION OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS WHICH 
goads piim ON to still greater excesses. As a consequence, 
the majority of men are much more fitted for a hospital than for 
the marriage bed, and their wives are compelled to submit to OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
43 
an inordinate demand for sexual gratification, which produces a 
fearful train of female diseases, besides impairing the functions 
of maternity and rendering the woman unfit for motherhood. 
There are hundreds of weak, depraved, and deformed children, 
caused by these sexual excesses of the parents. This excessive 
indulgence weakens the organs at last to such a degree that a 
natural and satisfactory enjoyment is impossible. 
The inability to experience gratification which results from 
the excessive indulgence above mentioned, and the excited and 
inflamed condition of the brain which is caused thereby, pro- 
duces a form of insanity, which is manifested by various forms 
of unnatural desires. This is greatly exaggerated where the 
case is complicated by the use of tobacco and alcoholic stimu- 
lants, narcotics, etc., and where the natural development of 
amativeness is small. These consequences manifest themselves 
in indecent and extravagant actions in the forms of vice known 
as “sodomy,” the crime against nature, in other words, the 
“French vice,” and other forms of indulgence which are con- 
trary to all refined and natural instincts. In extreme cases 
these forms of insanity result in atrocious crimes and many 
cases of murder and suicide occur, the details of which, when 
discovered by detectives, are too revolting for publication. Very 
little is known of these forms of vice, except to those who have 
participated in them, because the details are too shocking. 
Society is doing absolutely nothing to stay the progress of these 
fearful evils. The remedy consists in educating every young 
person to an exalted conception of the dignity and elegance of 
sexual pleasures and when natural desires are exquisitely re- 
fined, there will be but little danger of the adoption of revolting 
customs. 
Promiscuous Sexual Intercourse. In the absence of cor- 
rect instruction there is absolutely nothing to prevent men from 
forming the idea that every woman who will submit is perfectly 
fair game and no man realizes the consequences of this error 
until he has destroyed his capacity for enjoyment and his moral 
character together. Every boy and girl should be instructed in 
the moral bearings of this subject, and until this is done, the 
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more than two hundred and fifty thousand of its daughters 
annually to prostitution and witness the debauching of a much 
larger number of its sons. Promiscuous sexual intercourse de- 
stroys the sexual sensibilities, renders the victim incapable of 
the higher forms of enjoyment, and generates the deplorable 
forms of venereal diseases with which so large a percentage of 
our citizens are afflicted. 
The full value of correct sexual intercourse is never reached 
in the first interview, but will continue to develop and grow 
with each successive experience, and the best results will be ob- 
tained after years of exclusive association. A correct experience 
destroys in each party the desire for promiscuous intercourse, as 
neither can afford to jeopardize the magnetic development which 
would be destroyed or in part annulled by introducing another 
current. Sexual affinity rightly established, will reform the 
most notorious rake or abandoned prostitute, and has done so in 
hundreds of cases observed by the author. 
Fourth. 
THE BENEFITS DERIVED FROM THE CORRECT USE OF 
THESE POWERS AND THE DEVELOPMENT 
OF PRFECT SELF-CONTROL 
The greater benefit conferred by this instruction will be 
realized in the perfection of offspring. As before stated, Nature 
has ordained that the conditions which produce the greatest 
pleasure to the participants in sexual intercourse results in the 
highest perfection of offspring. But when he refuses he reaps 
most condign punishment, not only in the loss of his pleasure, 
but in the actual destruction of his powers. The prolongation of 
the act as herein described enable him to arouse and employ 
during the act of sexual intercourse every organ of his brain 
and every expression of his powers, if he has intelligence enough 
to do so. When he does this he transmits these powers to his 
offspring, and the child comes into the world with a splendid 
inheritance of intelligence and happiness. So absolute is this 
fact true that I will undertake to describe to any individual not 
only which parent be resembles, but what the condition of that 
parent was at the time of his conception, and which parent OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
45 
enjoyed the greatest amount of pleasure in the act of inter- 
course in which he was conceived. The reason is that the per- 
son who enjoys complete pleasure produces offspring with com- 
plete heads, while those who destroy the pleasure of intercourse 
by improper conditions in the same ratio destroy the complete- 
ness of the offspring resulting from such intercourse. 
For it goes without saying that the pleasure of intercourse 
will be greatly increased by the careful obedience to these in- 
structions. But very few persons realize the actual amount of 
pleasure that can be experienced. In other departments of 
human effort the pleasure derived from correct actions are 
publicly enjoyed and all persons are inspired to emulate a 
similar experience, but in sexual relations all this is changed, 
and those persons who do experience pleasure are deterred 
from giving their experience publicly by the sense of shame by 
which this whole subject is enshrouded. 
Within the limits of a condensed instruction like the present 
it is impossible to go into details, but as a comprehension of the 
next section depends upon a principle which must be explained 
here I will be explicit. 
All ecstatic emotions of pleasure are due to an unusual 
amount of blood being directed into the organ of the brain 
corresponding to the emotion producing the pleasure. This 
may be done by continued concentration of mind upon one sub- 
ject, or by some unusual and unexpected circumstances pro- 
ducing a violent emotion. 
During the act of sexual intercourse, an unusual amount of 
blood is forced into the brain, and if the participant is able to 
prolong the act at will, as herein instructed, he can by the con- 
centration of mind at that time upon any particular subject 
produce emotions of ecstacy, amounting in some cases to a 
complete trance. 
If this ecstacy is held under control and he retains the con- 
sciousness the participant will be able to evolve the most intense 
sensation in any of the brain lobes to which he may direct his 
expression of energy at the time, and by concentrating his mind 
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will produce extraordinary thought, great power and brilliancy 
of conception and expression, and, besides experiencing the 
pleasure of these emotions, he may develop ideas of the greatest 
value of which he would be incapable under ordinary con- 
ditions, and this process frequently repeated will result in an 
extraordinary of those brain organs which are employed in the 
emotions experienced. 
It has been demonstrated through experience that the brain 
organs have been developed and enlarged and actual increase of 
power became noticeable under the conditions and the stimulus 
of sexual activity, and it is within the power of any man who 
wishes to adhere to the instructions herein given to generate 
greater power physically and mentally than that of which he 
has heretofore conceived. 
I am often asked if such an experience would not be a fearful 
strain upon the nervous system and if it is not dangerous. I 
answer that it is just as dangerous to develop the brain by use 
and strong action as it is to develop the muscles by gymnastics. 
Some persons injure themselves by gymnastics and strain 
their muscles. It is possible to be too violent in sexual emotions 
as in any other department of human action, and men with 
weak hearts and a tendency to apoplexy may be cautious with 
profit. But the chances of injury are quite remote and just 
about the same as in religious revivals, where men and women 
cultivate religious ecstacies with general benefit. In most cases 
the first result is a great increase in self-control, the emotions 
become subject to the will and the entire mental machinery is 
disciplined by the process. In fact, as the sexual nature is at 
the very foundation of character, the cultivation of self-control 
in this department virtually establishes it in every other de- 
partment. This leads me to the discussion of one of the 
greatest discoveries ever made, as herein given. 
As has already been shown in the preceding sections the 
organs of the brain can be enlarged by cultivation of ecstacy 
during sexual intercourse. It has also been demonstrated that 
various kinds of nervous troubles, and in some instances, func- 
tional disorders, have been greatly benefitted, and in many OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
47 
instances cured, by the proper carrying out of these sexual in- 
structions; and when so doing, focusing the brain’s action on 
affected parts. This can only be accomplished by having proper 
control of one’s faculties and where both parties are willing to 
co-operate. 
With the earnest hope that the foregoing instructions may 
prove as beneficial to the reader as they have to hundreds of 
others, the author presents them with his best wishes. 
Fifth. 
PERFECT OFFSPRING 
How They May Be Created, and the Regulation of Sex. 
The highest consideration for the welfare of the human race, 
the comfort and safety of individuals, and the protection of 
families from privation and want, demand that the conditions 
which surround pregnancy should be better understood. Science 
has demonstrated that the production of idiots, deformed, de- 
praved and diseased offspring are the result of ignorance of 
parents of the great physiological facts surrounding the be- 
ginning of the new life. 
To furnish parents the knowledge by which they can have the 
kind of offspring desired, to make the production of superb off- 
spring a possibility, to reduce the number of paupers, idiots, 
criminals, cowards, and invalids in the next generation, to 
increase the pleasure and benefit the sexual strength of its 
favored readers is the object of this work. 
In order to understand the theory of conception and preg- 
nancy it is necessary to explain a portion of the anatomy of the 
female. The womb is a small, hollow, pearshaped organ, form- 
ing the vehicle in which conception takes place and the child is 
carried. The ovaries are two small sacs in which the life germ 
originates in the form of an jvum, or egg. The ovum at 
maturity is itself no larger than a pinhead, but is surrounded by 
a protecting envelope resembling a clot of phlegm or mucus, 
slightly discolored and fringed and making the whole about the 
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twenty-eight days, one of the ovi, or eggs, matures and passes 
through a tube connecting the ovary with the womb, into which 
it is discharged and where it remains during a period varying 
in different females from an immediate discharge to fifteen 
days. If, during the period while the ovum remains in the 
womb, the semen of the male is brought in contact with the 
ovum, which is the natural result of coition, at such time, the 
ovum is impregnated, and immediately attaches itself to the 
walls of the womb and begins to grow and gradually assumes 
the form of an infant. 
The expulsion of the ovum from the ovary and its passage 
from the womb is attended (in a healthy female) with a slight 
discharge of discolored mucus from the vegina, a small quantity 
of blood, and general feeling of lassitude (bearing-down pains), 
etc., which should not last more than three days. This is the 
process of menstruation and at the period of three days and the 
cessation of the symptoms, the ovum should be in the womb 
ready for impregnation, the female is more likely to desire 
coition at that time because she is in a condition to become a 
mother. By some authorities it is contended that the ovum 
may be fecundated while it is passing through the fallopian 
tube, or while it is in the tube itself. 
The process of impregnation or fecundation takes place when 
the semen of the male is brought in contact with the ovum by 
the act of coition. The penis of the male in coition is brought 
in close contact with the mouth of the womb, and at the 
moment of climax, or when the passion of the male reaches 
culmination, a nervous spasm ensues, followed by the ejection of 
about one-half ounce of whitish fluid called semen. Under the 
microscope this fluid is found to contain innumerable little 
animalcule called spermatozoa, which unquestionably are the 
vehicles of the life principle. These spermatozoa resemble tad- 
poles and move at the rate of about an inch in two hours. 
At the moment of climax on the part of the female she ex- 
periences a similar nervous spasm, and the glands of the womb 
and its appendages secrete a fluid copiously, which forms an 
excellent medium for the preservation and nourishment of the OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
49 
spermatozoa after they have left the body of the male. At the 
same time the mouth of the womb dilates to receive the semen,, 
which is thrown into the womb with considerable force. The 
spermatozoa come in contact with the ovum, enter it, and unite 
with it and the ovum attaches itself to the womb and begins to 
grow. Impregnation has been effected and new life has com- 
menced. Its destruction after the moment of impregnation is 
murder. 
The mere contact of the semen and the ovum, while unques- 
tionably necessary to conception, it not all that is necessary. 
The creative force which molds the child is magnetism, which 
originates in the body of each parent, passes through every 
nerve, and culminates in the union of two forces, negative and 
positive, in the womb of the female upon the ovum and the 
spermatozoa. There are really four elements necessary to con- 
ceptivity in one parent, and positive magnetism from the other 
all uniting under favorable conditions to form a child. The 
total absence of any one of these elements will defeat con- 
ception ; the inferior quality of any one of them will produce an 
inferior result in the offspring, which may be idiocy, deformity, 
depravity, stupidity, or disease, according to varying conditions. 
Sixth. 
CAUSES OF BARRENNESS 
The theory of conception and pregnancy being thus explained 
I shall proceed to discuss the causes of barrenness. 
1. In order to obtain a perfect conception, insuring perfect 
offspring, it is necessary that the constitution of the parents 
should be adapted to each other. That is, that the excesses and 
deficiences of development in each should be balanced by a 
different constitutional condition in the other. If the consti- 
tutions are similar in development, if both have the same weak- 
nesses, or excesses, or the constitutions are so neutral to each 
other as to be devoid of magnetic attraction, the creative act is 
shorn of its power and total barrenness will I^th^se 50 
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conditions exist only in a degree the result will be partial con- 
ception, the child will only be partially made, something will be 
left out, and congenital deformities result. 
2. Barrenness may be caused by an improper marriage, 
where the parties have such a maladaptation of the sexual 
organs as to make coition painful or prevent the female from 
reaching the climax. The intercourse of persons of harmonious 
constitutions result in delightful coition and perfect offspring. 
3. Barrenness may be caused by congenital malformation of 
the womb and its appendages, or by an arrested development 
during childhood, caused by paralysis, which is of course in 
some cases incurable. Many females who are in this condition 
marry with most unhappy results. 
4. A fourth cause is found in a debilitated condition of the 
sexual organs producing a physical incapacity on the part of the 
female to furnish a healthy well-formed ovum, or to retain it in 
the womb, and on the part of the male of a physical incapacity 
to furnish healthy and impregnating semen. This may or may 
not be curable, according to the individual case. 
5. Non-participation in the climax of coition on the part of 
the female is a frequent cause of non-conception and barren- 
ness. It may be willful, or it may be because of inability to work 
up her feeling to the extent of passion, thereby interfering with 
conception, both through lack of magnetism and the failure of 
the womb to dilate and receive the semen. Many women con- 
ceive without participating in the pleasure of coition because 
the mouth of the womb is in such cases dilated by a relaxed 
condition of the system caused by disease. 
6. Premature emission on the part of the male is another 
frequent cause of non-conception. If the emission takes place 
before the female has had a reasonable time to reach the 
climax, the design of nature is frustrated. 
7. Some females discharge the ovum during the menstrual 
flow. In such cases, when offspring is desired, copulation dur- OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
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ing the early stages of menstruation, just before flow com- 
mences, or immediately after its cessation, will often have the 
desired effect, particularly if coition is refrained from for two 
weeks previously to enable the semen of the male to reach its 
full vitality. In such cases, the offspring will probably be 
female. The ovum is likely to pass at the close of menstruation 
and be discolored with menstrual blood, and mistaken for a 
clot of it. 
The mere statement of the foregoing causes of barrenness and 
the causes of deformity and disease in offspring carries with it 
the irresistible conclusion that it is necessary that all married 
persons should beget their offspring intelligently. They should 
have absolute control of the time, place, and circumstances at- 
tending conception, and no child should ever be forced into the 
world the unwelcome offspring of parents who have ceased to 
love each other, or who for any reason are not in the most 
perfect condition of parental effectiveness and mutual desire. 
The regulation of offspring is absolutely necessary to the 
health of every mother, and to the health of the offspring as 
well. Thousands of mothers are rendered hopeless invalids by 
over-production and continue to bear sickly and deformed 
children because they have no time to recuperate. 
Children should be begotten at a time when the condition of 
the parents is at the highest point favorable to reproduction, 
and when surrounding circumstances have been intelligently 
arranged to endow the child with the best possible organization. 
Whenever men and women learn the truth as explained in this 
volume, there will be brought into the world healthy, matured, 
properly formed children. 
The first great lesson which every man must learn is that 
sexual intercourse is the highest of life’s great functions, and is 
only to be used for the benefit of himself, his consort, and his 
Offspring. IN THE ABSENCE OF INSTRUCTIONS, NOTHING IS MORE 
NATURAL THAN FOR HIM TO ACQUIRE THE HABIT OF INDULGING 
MERELY FOR THE GRATIFICATION OF MORBID FEELINGS WHICH ARE 
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unhappy is the lot of a woman who is bound for life to a man 
afflicted with such desire, who is unwilling to learn or to prac- 
tice any rule of life which interferes with his ignorant and lust- 
ful pleasures. Such men never reach a comprehension of 
THE HIGHEST JOYS OF SEXUAL PLEASURES AND THEY ARE THE 
REAL destroyers OF SOCIETY. I do not hold to the absurd doc- 
trine that sexual intercourse should only be used for production 
of offspring. But I do hold that whenever sexual intercourse is 
used in such a way that it results in injury to the man or 
woman, or in the production of inferior, diseased, or depraved 
offspring, it is an abomination. 
The first great lesson which woman must learn is that she is 
absolute owner of her own person, and that she cannot sell it to 
any man, either in marriage or prostitution. Most women be- 
lieve and have been taught that in marriage they are the 
property of their husbands, and that they must submit to all 
demands, no matter how unreasonable. This is the most 
damnable doctrine ever taught by the enslavers of women, but 
the one which has been most enforced. Woman must realize 
that when she submits to a man for any reason but love she is 
prostituting herself and bringing into the world a child which is 
prostituted from its conception. No woman should ever submit 
to rape, either at the hands of her husband or any other man. 
Intelligent love will never require a gratification of a passion 
that is not directed toward the benefit of both parties to the 
union, and which will be guarded against any possibility of in- 
jury to prospective offspring. If both parties are not willing to 
conform to these conditions, the union should be at once dis- 
solved. If either party is so cowardly or so weak as to be will- 
ing to submit to the demands of unbridled lust, I have no 
remedy to offer, but I shall be filled with pity and sadness when 
I contemplate their crippled offspring. THE THIRD DIVISION 
(One Part) How to Produre Perfect Offsprings, 
Their Creation and the 
Regulation of Sex. 
THE PHILOSOPHY OF CORRECT GENERATION 
The first three great laws of reproduction are as follows: 
I. 
In reproduction the offspring is the composite product of the 
transmission and combination of all traits and conditions of the 
composition of all previous ancestors. 
II. 
The temporary condition of the parents at the time of con- 
ception becomes the permanent condition of the offspring by 
transmission. 
III. 
The temporary condition of the mother during preg- 
nancy BECOMES THE PERMANENT CONDITION OF THE OFFSPRING. 
I have already remarked that the creative force which molds 
the child is magnetism which originates in the body of each 
parent, passes through the nerves, and culminates in the union 
of two forces, negative and positive, in the womb of the female 
upon the ovum and spermatozoa. I will now elaborate this 
explanation. 
All matter radiates magnetism. All space is receptive to 
magnetism and receives it as it is radiated from matter. This 
is a general statement of the creative force as it exists in all 
nature and as it produces all the manifold changes in matter 
which constitutes life. 
Electricity is the generative passion of love of space for mat- 
ter. The corresponding degree of generative passion or love 
which matter radiates into space is called magnetism. The OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
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radiation of magnetism from matter gathered into a current by- 
restraining forces is erroneously called electricity. It should 
always be spoken of as magnetism. A correct understanding of 
these terms is necessary to a comprehension of the philosophy. 
I shall give enough of it here for the reader to understand how 
to apply it. 
The phenomena of magnetism are radiation, vibration, heat, 
and light. 
The electric state is negative, the magnetic state is positive. 
All bodies, human beings included, are organized and are com- 
posed of molecules which are held together by electro-magnetic 
affinities. All growth is caused by changes in the condition of 
electricity and magnetism in the environment. The conception 
and growth of human beings are subject to the same great laws. 
A man or a woman is in an electric or negative state when 
the body is composed, receptive, and cool. Brunettes are more 
subject to these conditions than blondes, hence they are called 
electric, or of the electric temperament. 
A man or a woman is in a magnetic or positive state, when 
the body is vibrating, radiating magnetism, and warm. Blondes 
are more subject to these conditions than brunettes, hence they 
are usually called magnetic, or said to belong to the magnetic 
temperament. 
It must be borne in mind, however, that all persons are sub- 
ject to either condition under the proper circumstances. The 
difference is simply in the amount of magnetism generated, the 
period necessary for it to reach the highest culmination, and 
the facility with which the change from one state to the other 
is effected. 
Any person can become negative by becoming composed, re- 
maining passive, and allowing the body to become receptive and 
cool. Conversely, any person can become positive by becoming 
sufficiently excited, vibrating the body in violent exercise and 
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pleasant or unpleasant. When the reader has thoroughly mas- 
tered these definitions of electric and magnetic conditions he 
will be prepared to follow me through the most important dis- 
cussion of the correct conditions of parentage ever submitted to 
intelligent consideration. 
There are four forms of sexual intercourse. They may be 
properly designated as: (1) Male Positive. (2) Female 
Positive. (3) Double Positive. (4) Double Negative. 
In the Male Positive intercourse, the female becomes negative, 
remains as composed as possible, giving little or no expression 
to emotion, allowing her passion to be passive, and moving the 
body no more than she can avoid. She should be in an easy 
recumbent position sustaining as little weight as possible, and 
perfectly free from all unpleasant fears or emotions of any 
kind. At the close of the intercourse, if conception is desired, 
she should experience the orgasm, but should allow it to occur 
without any great excitement. The male, on the contrary, should 
cultivate and express the most intense emotion and passion, 
vibrate the body with such caresses and exercises as will gen- 
erate a great amount of radiation and magnetism and be in a 
position where he will have perfect freedom of action for this 
purpose. He should culminate the act with a strong orgasm, 
but should exercise restraint over this function until he is cer- 
tain that he has called out in his actions an expression of every 
one of his faculties of intelligence. If conception is desired, he 
should have the orgasm at the same time that the female ex- 
periences it. In this form of intercourse, the magnetism of the 
male is most powerfully generated and is poured into the body 
of the female, who will be greatly benefited thereby, and if the 
female is weak or exhausted from nervous excitement, or any 
cause it will be found to have a wonderful strengthening effect. 
If the male is in a high state of vitality and good health, the 
expenditure of his magnetism in this form will also be bene- 
ficial to him, if repeated until he reaches a full recuperation of 
his powers. 
In the Female Positive intercourse, these conditions are 
exactly reversed. The female expends her magnetism in a 
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remains passive. In this form, the male should not permit the 
emission of semen to occur unless conception is desired, and in 
that case it should only occur quietly and without violent 
emotion or expression. In this form the magnetism and 
strength of the female is transferred to the male, who will be 
correspondingly benefited. 
In the Double Positive intercourse, both parties are positive 
and the magnetism is wasted. This is the form usually prac- 
ticed by the passionate man and woman who are ignorant of the 
laws of generation. In this form neither party is benefited, 
except by the discharge of magnetism from the body. If both 
are in a high state of magnetic strength, such an intercourse 
may be permissible, as it is permissible to waste a surplus of 
steam in an engine by opening the safety valve, but no con- 
ception of offspring should ever occur in a double positive inter- 
course, for reasons which will be given. 
The Double Negative intercourse is simply an embrace of the 
parties in which the sexual organs are brought into contact, but 
neither party experiences the orgasm or expends much force. 
Such an embrace is often delightful for the purpose of restor- 
ing an equilibrium to the brains of both parties after mental 
exercise which has been prolonged, affecting the frontal lobe. 
The moderate sexual excitement of such an embrace draws the 
blood to the posterior lobe of the brain and relieves the con- 
gestion of the frontal lobes, often inducing sleep when all other 
methods fail. The conception of offspring should never occur in 
a double negative intercourse. 
Having in the foregoing paragraphs explained how the four 
kinds of sexual intercourse may be performed, and briefly 
alluded to their effects upon the participants, I will now explain 
their philosophic bearings upon the production of offspring. All 
creation is effected by the union of negative and positive forces, 
and it is a general rule to which science furnishes no exception, 
that the strongest creation occurs when the most complete 
negative conditions are opposed by the most powerful force or 
forces, from all of which I deduce the fourth great law of 
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The best offspring results from intercourse in which one 
parent is very completely negative and the other very power- 
fully positive. 
Of course it is impossible for either parent to be entirely 
negative, but the nearer this condition is approximated the 
more perfect will be the result. The importance of this fact 
will be more appreciated when the reader has comprehended 
the tremendous facts disclosed in the next section. 
The sex of offspring is governed by the application of this 
great law. In order to maintain the equality of the sexes in 
numbers and quality, nature has ordained that in each succeed- 
ing generation the elements of human character shall cross the 
line of genesis. The history of the world reveals the fact that 
men do not transmit their characteristics to their sons. Neither 
do women transmit their characteristics to their daughters. No 
great man has ever yet appeared above the horizon of mediocrity 
who did not have a mother who embodied in her character the 
elements which made him successful. No woman has ever 
astonished the world with her genius who was not the offspring 
of a father who possessed the germs of the same genius. Dif- 
ferences in environment, in education, and immediate conditions 
have of course had their influences, but as far as the law of 
inheritance furnishes a cause of observed effects, there are no 
exceptions to this rule. In any apparent exception where a son 
has followed in the footsteps of his father with success, it will 
be found that the mother possessed the elements of character 
which made the success possible. In all ages men have mourned 
the fact that their sons were unable to follow in their footsteps, 
while the current theology and social customs of society have 
relegated their daughters, because the occupation in which those 
talents would shine have not been considered within “‘woman’s 
sphere.” And so the development of humanity has been retarded 
and set back until another generation after decades of disuse 
and suppression, the talent has appeared in the grandson. It 
is in the same way gifted and talented boys, inheriting from 
sensitive and refined mothers the grace which would have made 
them brilliant musicians, accomplished painters, and incom- 
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for which they were utterly unfitted, in order to succeed to their 
father’s business. And so the miserable inharmony proceeds. 
The fifth great law of reproduction may be stated as follows: 
The positive parent governs the sex and reverses it, and if the 
positive parent is very positive and the negative parent very 
negative, the result will be a child of the opposite sex from 
the positive parent, but possessing that parent’s qualities of 
character in the highest degree of perfection possible to that 
parentage. 
According to this law, a negative female and a positive male 
will produce a female child, and that child will resemble her 
father and be like him in character; and being like him, will be 
as perfect as it is possible to produce a female child, for it is 
impossible for the mother to transmit her qualities to her 
daughter, who resembles her in any degree, it is because she 
was partly positive and so far opposed her positive force to that 
of the father, defeating his creation and to that degree impair- 
ing the perfection of the child. It is universally true that boys 
who resemble their father and girls who resemble their mother 
in any degree are to just that degree inferior. This resem- 
blance to the parent of the same sex is often superficial and fre- 
quently exists only as to the color of the hair and eyes, while 
the formation of the brain and the essentials of character are 
properly inherited from the right parent. It is not unusual to 
find such cases referred to as “the very image of her mother,” 
or “the picture of his father,” when the truth is the reverse. 
It is a fact, however, that all persons who resemble the parents 
of the same sex in brain formation and the essentials of char- 
acter are the result of either double negative or double positive 
intercourse, in which the forces were nearly equally opposed, 
but having just enough preponderance on one side to effect the 
creation. If the forces were exactly equal in opposition, no 
creation could result. It follows that as the opposition de- 
creases the creation becomes more perfect. 
According to this same law, a negative male and a positive 
female will produce a male child, who will resemble his mother 
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possible for the couple to produce a male child. Such is, in fact, 
always the case. 
The sixth great law of reproduction naturally follows as a 
corollary to the second. 
The more perfect the receptivity of the negative parent and 
the greater force generated by the positive parent, the stronger 
will be the offspring. 
Both the negative and the positive conditions are enjoyable. 
Both should be made the subject of careful study and practice 
by all prospective parents until it is possible to assume either 
at will and enjoy it thoroughly. Unless this is done, when the 
time comes to generate offspring they will probably fail in pro- 
ducing the desired results from lack of practice. It is just as 
necessary to practice in this great art of production as in any 
other. The greater the harmony existing in the temperament 
and constitution of the parents, the easier will it be for them to 
establish harmonious positive and negative conditions. Here 
again is seen the inestimable value of perfect harmony of sex. 
For this reason it is possible with such a consort to enjoy a 
high degree of pleasure in all social and sexual relations, and 
because of this reciprocity to have more perfect offspring than 
can possibly be obtained by any other combination. And this 
brings us to the enunciation of the seventh great law of repro- 
duction. 
The conditions of pleasurable enjoyment of the act of sexual 
intercourse are always in direct proportion to the conditions 
favorable to the perfect creation of offspring. I have frequently 
been assailed by hostile critics who have contended that I dwelt 
too much upon the pleasures of intercourse and that my 
philosophy tended to make man sexual. My answer has always 
been the enunciation of this great law that follows logically 
from the others we have considered, and I have always de- 
clared that as long as I knew that my doctrine would continue 
to add beauty to children yet unborn, I would continue to teach 
this great law and let the critics to their worst. 
These ideal conditions are possible and easy of attainment 
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lust subservient to love. Love is simply the attraction felt 
BY ONE PERSON FOR ANOTHER, RESTRAINED AND DIRECTED SO AS 
TO PRODUCE THE GREATEST GOOD FOR THE LOVED SUBJECT. LUST 
IS THE SAME ATTRACTION UNBRIDLED AND INDULGED IRRESPECTIVE 
OF the welfare OF the object. Ponder on these definitions 
and decide which form you are experiencing. 
In order to carry out the philosophy of this system and to 
reap the benefit of a knowledge of the laws herein expounded, 
it is necessary: 
First. The male should secure perfect control of his sexual 
powers to the extent that he can be negative or positive at will, 
that he can control the emission of semen perfectly, so as to 
prolong sexual intercourse to a necessary extent, and be able to 
terminate the act with or without emission, or with a violent 
orgasm or a gentle one, according to his desire, and the object 
to be obtained. 
Second. The female must be in possession of a knowledge of 
her condition as to possibility of impregnation, the exact stage 
of her menstrual period, and be able to control her own con- 
dition of negativeness or positiveness, and to terminate the act 
with or without orgasm, violent or gentle, according to her de- 
sire and the object to be obtained. 
Men who have never experienced anything but the violent and 
abortive effects of the positive form of intercourse usually in- 
dulged in by the uninformed will be inclined to look upon the 
requirements of the male above stated as impossible. But in 
the light of instruction there is nothing unreasonable or even 
difficult to obtain in these requirements. A more full and com- 
plete discussion of the method of cultivating self-control is found 
in another chapter of this great work; but for the application of 
the principles herein discussed I consider the following sug- 
gestions necessary. To attain these requirements, it is necessary 
that the sexual organs should be in a perfectly natural con- 
dition, that the parties should abstain from tea, coffee, tobacco, 
liquors, and all nerve poisons, that the bowels should be kept 
open and free from accumulations, and that intercourse should 
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When a man puts himself in this perfectly natural condition, he 
is fit to become the father of offspring, and not before. Then 
all that is necessary is a comprehension of the laws and practice 
in their application. If you are not able to reach all the require- 
ments with a reasonable degree of practice, there is something 
wrong, either with your sexual organs or your method of prac- 
tice, or the adaptation of your consort. You will find great 
benefit in any case from the information contained in other 
parts of this work. 
Females as a rule have very little trouble in controlling their 
negative and positive conditions and in regulating the force of 
the orgasm. I attribute this to the fact that the sexual organs 
of the female are not so much restricted by unnatural and 
debilitating clothing as those of man. Much has been said 
to the contrary, there is more need of dress reform among men 
than among women. 
But very few women understand the various stages of men- 
struation or their condition at each stage, as to negativeness or 
positiveness, or liability to impregnation. The following in- 
structions are indispensable and should be comprehended by 
every woman before sexual intercourse is attempted under any 
circumstances. 
The menstrual month of the female who is healthy and 
regular consists of twenty-eight days, continuing from the com- 
mencement of one flow to the commencement of another. There 
are slight variations from this rule, but they are not numerous. 
When there is a great variation, it is evidence of disease and 
treatment is required to establish regularity. This month of 
twenty-eight days is divided into three periods, viz: the period 
of flux, the period of retention of the ovum, and the period of 
sterility. These periods are all variable in different women, but 
generally invariable in each case, and when established become' 
sources of great convenience in the management of proper 
sexual relations. 
The period of retention of the ovum properly begins about 
two days before the.menstrual flow, includes the time of its 
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ripens in the ovary just before the beginning of the menstrual 
flow and it is possible for impregnation to take place if inter- 
course occurs at that time. After the menstrual flow ceases, the 
ovum remains in the fallopian tubes and uterus for some time, 
varying in different females from three days to fifteen days. In 
each female, however, the discharge usually occurs about the 
same number of days after the menstrual flow ceases, so that if 
the period is once established, the female may look for its 
repetition with tolerable regularity. 
When the ovum is discharged the period of sterility begins 
and continues until about two weeks before the next flow com- 
mences, when, as already stated, it is possible for the female to 
conceive with the ripened ovum which is then in the ovary. 
To enable a woman to surely understand her condition, and 
to conceive her offspring at a proper time and under proper 
conditions, she must know exactly when the ovum is discharged 
from the uterus and when the period of sterility begins. To 
accomplish this observe the following instructions carefully: 
As soon as the menstrual flow ceases, carefully cleanse the 
vagina with warm water at about blood heat. No other in- 
jection should ever be used. Now carefully notice all discharges 
that come from the uterus, and for this purpose it is desirable 
to wear a thin cloth, not heavy enough to heat the parts, but 
upon which all discharges from the uterus may be caught and 
examined. It is desirable until the period has been established, 
to strain the urine through a thin cloth and observe. When the 
ovum is discharged there is nearly always a flow of mucus, or 
thin watery fluid, from the vagina more than usual. Just 
previous to the appearance of the ovum there will be a feeling 
of contraction and bearing down in the uterus, as in men- 
struation. The ovum will be discharged in the form of a grayish 
clot of about the size of a small pea, and of a firm and elastic 
texture. The ovum itself is only about the size of a small pin- 
head, but it is surrounded by enveloping matter and mucus 
which makes it clearly visible if the observer is careful. 
As already remarked, the period of retention varies in dif- 
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females discharge it during the menstrual flow, and some on the 
first or second day, but these cases are very rare. No case 
has ever been found where the ovum has been retained beyond 
the fifteenth day, so females who from any cause are unable to 
detect the passage, may with certainty rely upon the fifteenth 
day as establishing the period of retention whether discovered 
or not. 
The female being in possession of the knowledge of her con- 
dition, the act of sexual intercourse becomes perfectly easy to 
regulate. She will find, however, that immediately after the 
cessation of the menstrual flow, and for several days thereafter, 
she will be more negative than positive, hence if she conceives 
at such a time, the result wil be a female offspring, unless for 
some reason the positiveness of the male is still more reduced. 
Such a conception would, of course, be disastrous to the off- 
spring by the creative force being reduced to a minimum. But 
if female offispring is desired and the male is magnificently 
positive, it is the most desirable time. The female will begin 
to manifest her most positive condition after the seventh day 
following the close of the menstrual flow, hence this would be 
the most favorable time to conceive male offspring, provided the 
ovum has not been passed previously. 
Another point that is worth noticing is that when the female 
offspring is desired after the intercourse, the female should lie 
quietly and sleep, thus prolonging her negativeness. When 
male offspring is desired, she should move about and prolong 
her positiveness by cheerful occupation, pleasant companion- 
ship, active movements, and gayety. 
The greatest difficulty I have experienced in teaching my 
philosophy of the sexual relations is the unwillingness of man 
to believe there is any pleasure in sexual intercourse except that 
which is derived from excitement of the orgasm and the dis- 
charge of semen. As a general rule, the man measures his 
pleasure by the number of orgasms he can force in the length 
of time he has possession of the female. It is this view of the 
sexual relations which makes it hard to enforce or to acomplish 
anything in behalf of the great number of women who are 
bound for life to masses of organized selfishness known as hus- OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
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bands. I am driven to dispair frequently when some beautiful 
woman, to whom I have given my instructions, returns to me 
with tears and says: “It is no use. I believe all you say is true, 
but my husband says it is all humbug, and I cannot even 
persuade him to try your method. All he seems to think of is 
gratification of his passion, and when we have intercourse, all 
his pleasure consists in the excitement and the orgasm, and that 
is so quickly over that I experience no pleasure at all. And he 
requires so much that he keeps me in a family way all the time, 
and as soon as I am through nursing one child I am pregnant 
with the next.” 
Now this is simply barbarous. And yet it is the unhappy 
condition of thousands of families all over the world, resulting 
in the production of thousands of ill-made children, destroying 
the health of the mothers and making them incapable of pro- 
ducing healthy offspring, and no less certainly destroying the 
health of the men who practice the outrage and causing them 
to sacrifice all the real pleasure there is in true sexual embrace. 
The man who has not learned to control himself, so that he 
can have satisfactory intercourse without any emission of semen 
is uneducated and unfit to be the companion of any woman. 
When he does learn this degree of control, he experiences 
pleasure infinitely beyond the comprehension of the man who 
experiences only the usual abortive form of intercourse. In fact 
I do not believe that any man has ever experienced true sexual 
joys until in the exercise of his manhood and self-justification 
he has caused himself and his loved consort to thrill with 
ecstatic emotions which may result from the intelligent use of 
sexual functions when held under this complete control. The 
same rule applies here which is true in music, or in any other 
accomplishment. Skilled performances give joy, while unskill- 
ful discords produce misery. 
The emission of the semen in coition is never necessary except 
for propagative purposes. By the cultivation of self-control, 
and by adhering closely to habits of living, diet, etc., promotive 
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the fullest extend, prolong the act for an unlimited time and 
withdraw without emission, with full feeling of satisfaction, 
both to himself and consort, provided that the conditions sur- 
rounding the act are proper and natural. 
I am aware that this statement will be received with great 
incredulity by those who have never experienced anything but 
an abortive coition—attempted under circumstances contrary to 
the laws of nature and all conditions of enjoyment. That nature 
intends the discharge of semen to be directly under the control 
of the male I have not the shadow of a doubt. The fact that I 
have met hundreds of well-sexed men who have been able under 
my instructions to duplicate my experience proves the fact. 
A great many magnetic men are able to prolong the act of 
coition to a satisfactory extent, but find it necessary to eject the 
semen at the conclusion of the act, which may take place after 
withdrawal without injury, provided the coition has lasted half 
an hour or more and the male has been fed by the magnetism 
of the female and has experienced the feeling of satisfaction 
which enables him to close the act without a severe nervous 
spasm inducing prostration. Any man of average physique and 
sexual vigor should be able to reach this degree of self-control. 
To attain to a higher degree in which no secretion of semen 
occurs and no feeling of discomfort arises, requires excellent 
health, perfect sexual vigor, and strongly developed habits of 
self-control, with the ability to elevate the feeling above mere 
selfish gratification, and to so sublimate the act as to make it 
the highest degree of mental enjoyment as well as physical. 
To attain the full degree of satisfaction in this method of 
coition, the act must be performed under the following con- 
ditions : 
1. The husband and wife must be adapted to each other in 
harmony, with physiological principles, in order to have correct 
sexual magnetism, natural attraction, and enjoyment. 
2. The parties must live in harmony with the laws of nature 
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from all nerve poisons, such as alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, 
morphine, and other stimulants, etc. 
3. The act must be performed in the proper way, at a proper 
time, when both parties are highly qualified to enjoy it, and 
with all disturbing conditions removed. 
A fuller discussion of these topics is referred to in another 
division of this work, but with reference to the methods of 
cultivating self-control, the following suggestions are here 
given: 
The male should accustom himself to entering the female and 
remain quiet for some moments, then withdraw without 
emission. This may be repeated frequently until the male has 
become accustomed to exercising this restraint, which is highly 
beneficial. At each interview the period of contact may be in- 
creased in duration and the male accustom himself to gentle 
movements, always being careful to terminate the insertion be- 
fore emission is imminent. This discipline may be kept up for 
some time with the assistance of the female until the habit of 
self-control is established. The act may then be prolonged by 
continuing the movement until emission seems to be imminent, 
when both should cease all movements, allowing the penis to re- 
main in the vagina and rest, in the meantime cultivating a 
lively conversation on agreeable topics. When the feeling of the 
approaching orgasm has subsided, the movement may be re- 
newed. 
The male should accustom himself to seek the gratification 
of his mind in the beauty and conversation of the female, in 
loving caresses and endearments, and enjoy the self-control 
which he is striving to maintain. As far as possible make the 
act a reciprocal enjoyment and remove the thoughts from the 
contact of the organs. When the habit of self-control is thus 
established and the male is able to prolong the act and enjoy it 
mentally, if it is properly accomplished and the rules as given 
in another division properly obeyed, the enjoyment on both 
sides will be delightful in the extreme, and so far transcend the 
pleasure of the mere orgasm that the participants will never 
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The physical effects of such coition are in the highest degree 
beneficial: I have yet to find a man who has appreciated and 
adopted it who has not been greatly improved in health and 
appearance by the practice. Its beneficial effect upon the 
female is equally good, and she should accustom herself to the 
same mental enjoyment and terminate the act without the 
orgasm and its accompanying nervous spasm. 
The performance of the act of coition under these conditions 
places the matter of conception entirely in the hands of the 
parents and enables the wife to enter fully into the enjoyment 
of the act without fear of unwelcome offspring. In practicing 
this theory, the male should be careful to withdraw whenever 
he feels the approach of the orgasm to such an extent as to 
render it beyond his control. If the act has been prolonged, it 
will not be in the least injurious to let the emission take place 
outside, but it is better to retain the semen if possible. 
A MOST IMPORTANT FACT TO BE BORNE IN MIND IS THAT THE 
MENTAL CONDITION OF THE PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR STATE OF 
CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTION EXERT A VERY GREAT INFLUENCE IN 
THE FINAL effect which shall be felt. A great deal has been 
written by ignorant persons concerning the injurious effects of 
“incomplete intercourse/’ and withdrawal, etc. “As a man 
thinketh, so is he.” If a man believes he is injuring himself by 
any act, it will injure him in fact, no matter how harmless the 
act may be in itself. A gentleman once complained to me 
that “incomplete intercourse,” this is terminating without 
emission, was very injurious to him, although he had practiced 
it for years to save his wife from unwelcome offspring. He 
was asked, “Who told you so?” “My family physician,” he re- 
plied. He was informed that his family physician did not 
understand the case. It is not only not injurious, but that THE 
RETENTION OF THE SEMEN WILL CAUSE ONE TO BE LESS NERVOUS 
AND TO increase IN weight. He followed my advice and re- 
ported in three months that he had gained fifteen pounds and 
that his nerves were much stronger. 
The truth is that such an intercourse is just as complete as 
any other. The completeness or incompleteness of the in- 
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not on the emission. If the magnetic exchange is full and 
complete and both parties are truly fed with it, and the 
affections are fully gratified, the emission is simply a question 
of economy. If either party is in a high state of vitality and 
magnetism and would be benefited by a discharge and complete 
orgasm, it may take place at the close of the interview without 
evil effects, and it is simply a question of expediency whether 
it occurs inside or outside the vagina. There is a slight increase 
in the duration of pleasure to the male if the penis is con- 
tracted by the female during the emission, as the closing of the 
walls of the vagina around the penis contracts the urethra and 
offers resistance to the passage of the semen, which causes 
pleasurable sensations to the male. Even this may be retained 
in an external emission by the female contracting the penis in a 
similar way with the hand, just as it escapes from the vagina. 
This allows an uninterrupted stream of magnetism to continue 
from the female to the male and fully compensates him for any 
loss that may occur by his separation from the vagina. 
The most perfect results are obtained by those who pay the 
closest attention to the reciprocation of negative and positive 
conditions. During the period of retention the female is most 
likely to desire intercourse. If she refrains entirely from fear 
of conception, she will suffer a certain degree of sexual starv- 
ation. During the period of sterility, many females have no 
passion at all, and when they are required to perform inter- 
course in a positive way, it is at considerable expense to the 
nervous system. My philosophy gratifies both at the proper 
time. During the period of retention let the female be as 
positive as she likes, but let the male be negative and retain the 
semen. During the period of sterility let the female be nega- 
tiv, if she desires to be, and let the male extend his force as 
freely as his health and temperament require. During the 
menstrual flow decency requires complete abstinence. If during 
the period of retention the male would be benefited by an 
emission it may take place externally, and thus both parties 
may experience the highest possible benefits without resorting 
to any preventive or incurring a temptation to commit murder 
in the form of an abortion. THE FOURTH DIVISION 
(Three Parts) The Cureof Sexual Weakness Without 
Medicine or Expense; Manhood 
Restored. 
First. 
A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE CONDITIONS GENERALLY 
DESCRIBED AS SEXUAL WEAKNESS, LOST 
MANHOOD, NERVOUS DEBILITY 
Degeneracy of the sexual organs exists in some cases and 
may frequently be remedied by proper treatment. Degeneracy 
would be indicated by deficiency in size or by malformation. 
For actual malformation amounting to inability to sustain 
sexual relations there would be no remedy, but such cases are 
extremely rare. The most common form of malformation, which 
is remediable, is phymosis. This is a condition in which the 
foreskin is long and the opening is so contracted that it cannot 
be drawn back over the glands. This causes a lack of growth 
of the organ and a filthy condition which breeds disease and is 
a frequent cause of nervousness and idiocy in boys. An exam- 
ination by any competent and reputable surgeon will settle this 
question and provide a remedy, which is usually found in cir- 
cumcision. This is the only condition in which I recognize the 
act of circumcision as being in any degree necessary. 
Deficiency in size of the sexual organs is a much advertised 
condition upon which the quacks reap a fruitful harvest. Nearly 
all young men are anxious to have a vigorous condition of these 
organs and naturally the size seems to be an indication of 
power, as in the case of the rest of the body. But as very few 
men have any opportunity of comparing sizes of development, 
and most of them are filled with distrust of their own condi- 
tions through reading quack advertisements, it is not to be 
wondered at that many a man comes to believe that his organs 
are small and weak, when in fact they are well-proportioned. It 
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ditions, flaccidity and erection, andt hat the size of the organs 
in flaccidity is no indication of their size in erection. Hundreds 
of men contemplate their sexual organs in a state of flaccidity 
and noticing their natural shrunken and diminished size in that 
condition and being worried over their distrust and lack of con- 
fidence, have arrived at the conclusion that they are hopeless 
degenerates, when in fact they are vigorously sexed. 
Where there is an actual deficiency of size in the organs the 
best remedy is found in their legitimate use and in massage and 
remedies hereinafter described. But if a satisfactory sexual 
relation is experienced there is really no reason for worry over 
the size of the organs. Women differ in size of these organs as 
much as men and where the parties are properly mated, there 
is no great disparity in size, and the action of the organs are 
harmonious. It is of far greater importance that every man 
and woman should secure the knowledge which enables each to 
make a correct selection of a sexual mate than to submit to 
treatment for deficiencies which may have no existence except 
in the mind of the victim and in the rapacity of the quacks who 
assume to treat him. 
The effects of self-abuse are greatly exaggerated in the ad- 
vertisements of these frauds and these exaggerations have 
caused more injury than self-abuse itself. It is safe to say that 
a large majority of boys learn to practice the vice of self-abuse 
to some extent. While this is true that a great many injurious 
effects result from this practice, it is also true that in the 
advertisements of these quack doctors and in the misguided 
expressions of a great many moralists such emphasis has been 
laid upon the injury and so little practical instruction has been 
given as the real power and use of sexual organs that a great 
injury has been done. I am constantly coming in contact with 
a class of men, young and middle-aged, who have been so 
impressed with the awful consequences of self-abuse, that they 
believe that they are hopelessly ruined because they have 
indulged in it to a limited extent and were not aware of these 
awful consequences nor of any weakness existing until they 
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tact with the advertisements referred to, they imagine that 
they are hopelessly ruined. This imagination is really the cause 
of the breakdown. In most cases where there is an inordinate 
desire for sexual excitement and an actual practice of self-abuse 
to an injurious extent, the cause will be found in an unnat- 
ural DIET, IN FILTHY HABITS, NEGLECT OF THE BATH, CONSTI- 
PATION AND INDULGENCE IN STIMULANTS, AND THE ACT OF 
SELF-ABUSE IS A RESULTING SYMPTOM, INSTEAD OF THE CAUSE 
OF THE TROUBLE. 
When this condition exists and there is a continuation of the 
practice, the remedy is found only in total abstinence. Adopt 
the proper diet, avoid all forms of meat, stimulating foods and 
drinks, eat fruits, nuts, and vegetables of the right kind and 
temperature, according to your temperament; bathe properly, 
seek agreeable companionship, wear loose clothing and learn the 
current of your magnetism and control it. All of these practices 
are taught fully in physical culture magazines. If you have 
discontinued the habit and still have some fears that your 
sexual strength has been diminished by the practice of it, the 
best thing to do in any case is to dismiss this fear and proceed 
to develop and enjoy your functions regardless of a past which 
you cannot recall. The probabilities are that as soon as you 
adopt this mental attitude and dismiss fear, you will have no 
further trouble. 
Where there is really any deficiency in size of the organs, or 
a debility resulting from sexual abuse of any kind, the first 
thing to do in any case is to improve the general heatlh. The 
study of the functions of generation, depuration, nutrition, cir- 
culation, observation, respiration, and reflection, and the im- 
provements of the functions according to directions given in 
other portions of this work, will greatly increase the force of 
your gender. 
Spermatorrhea is an imaginary disease. Many years ago I 
began teaching the doctrine that involuntary losses of semen, 
nocturnal emissions, were simply symptoms resulting from con- 
stipation, by which unnatural pressure was brought upon the 
seminal reservoirs. My adoption of a natural diet based upon 
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75 
meat from the dietary, has resulted in a complete mastery of 
this condition, which has been such a fruitful source of revenue 
to the quack and such a nightmare to thousands of uninformed 
men. At the same time it must be borne in mind that occa- 
sional emissions at long intervals are natural to some tempera- 
ments and produce no evil effects. In every case that I have 
observed in late years where emissions have occurred with 
debilitating frequency, there has been constipation, or in the 
absence of constipation, an indulgence in meat diet or some 
stimulant, or unnatural nervous excitement. 
Varicocele results from the relaxation of the muscles of the 
scrotum caused often by keeping the affected region in a hot, 
sweaty condition by an excess of clothing, frequently of an un- 
wholesome character. The remedy for this condition is found 
in the massage and cold compress hereinafter described, fre- 
quently applied and in reducing the amount of clothing sur- 
rounding the scrotum, exposing the parts to air and sunshine, 
removing all suspensories and other bandages and keeping the 
scrotum muscles contracted by cold applications. It is espe- 
cially important that the parts should be exposed constantly to 
ventilation and air currents, which can easily be accomplished 
by correcting the clothing. 
Total or partial failure of erection may occur from two 
causes, the debility of the sexual organs and the lack of control 
of the current of magnetism, in some cases both causes exist. 
Where there is a debility of the sexual organs, correct the gen- 
eral health according to natural methods and apply the massage 
and cold compress hereinafter described, vigorously and fre- 
quently. This treatment has been known to restore vigorous 
erectile power to the sexual organs of men of advanced years 
who have not known such a power for intervals of five and ten 
years. In such cases, the circulation was good and all that was 
necessary was to direct it specially to the sexual organs. 
Where the failure of erection is due to the disturbance of the 
current of magnetism, the correction of the condition is only a 
matter of intelligent effort. This will be fully discussed in sub- 
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Premature Emission of Semen, or the inability to prolong 
the act to a satisfactory termination, may also be due to these 
causes. Where there is debility of the organs, follow the direc- 
tions carefully and vigorously, the same as for the failure of 
erection. The conditions arising under the current of magnetism 
will be fully discussed under that head. 
The inability to reach a satisfactory prolongation of the sex- 
ual act results in mutual disappointment and reversion of 
affections and is a serios cause of marital unhappiness, as 
well as the deterioration of offspring. Unless the sexual 
emotions are entirely under control in both parents, the off- 
spring are sure to be seriously impaired in functionality, irri- 
table, nervous, and short-lived. The inability to control the act, 
however, is so general that I have found the greatest difficulty 
in convincing a large class of intelligent people that it is neces- 
sary to have the sexual emotions under the same control that 
is required in all other forms of human action, where effective- 
ness is desired. Briefly stated, however, the causes which give 
rise to this lack of self-control and cause the impairment of 
sexual effectiveness are as follows: 
1. Debility of the sexual organs and of the general consti- 
tution. 
2. Ignorance of the current of magnetism and how it may 
be controlled. 
3. Constipation, causing a partial paralysis of the sexual 
nerves by compressing the tissues of the sexual organs. 
4. Lack of temperamental affinity in the companion. 
5. Disturbing influences, such as fear, anger, distrust, or 
interruptions. 
6. Ignorance of the fact that such form of intercourse is 
profitable and consequent lack of effort to reach and enjoy it. 
7. In the absence of intelligent co-operation between the 
parties to secure the best possible results to each other and to 
the resulting offspring. OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
77 
As stated in previous chapters, many nervous troubles can be 
successfully treated through proper understanding and practice 
of coition. 
Briefly stated, the sexual organs of most men are small, defi- 
cient in circulation, unclean, and inefficient in the performance 
of the function of generation. Few men experience anything 
near the normal pleasure in sexual intercourse, and very few 
are able to exhibit any degree of control during the perform- 
ance of the act of copulation. Many complain of the failure of 
erection, others of premature discharge of semen, others are 
entirely impotent in generation, while the consciousness of 
weakness in any form is destructive of character by reducing 
self-confidence, destroying ambition and making the unhappy 
victim a prey to misery worse than death. These conditions 
have resulted in a fruitful harvest to the quacks who have 
added to the sum total of human misery by publishing adver- 
tisements especially worded to aggravate fear, inspire dread 
and induce patronage of their worse than worthless methods 
of treatment. 
Second. 
TRICKS OF FRAUDULENT DOCTORS 
Thousands of young men have been deluded into patronizing 
these scoundrels by their artfully worded advertisements, which 
suggest symptoms of sexual weakness every possible condition 
which any man is likely to feel in the course of a perfectly nor- 
mal existence. The continued suggestions of these advertise- 
ments produce in the perfectly normal and healthy man a feel- 
ing of dread lest he be afflicted as therein described. The 
seductive offer of free opinion on his case induces him to send 
for a question blank. He answers the questions, and is, of 
course, told that he is sick. He believes it, and thereafter it is 
simply a question of how long his money holds out. He is never 
benefited by the treatment unless his own imagination works 
the benefit. Every conceivable suggestion is made the basis of 
persuading him that he needs more medicine, and of course 
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ments given by mail. If he is unfortunate enough to be close 
enough to the quack for a personal consultation he is unmerci- 
fully ‘‘faked.” If he has any sediment in his urine he is in- 
formed that it is deadly. If he has one testicle larger than the 
other (as most men have), it is shown that he has ruined 
himself with youthful indiscretions. If he has an occasional 
emission, as nearly all men have at times when the nerves are 
excited from any cause, or there is temporary constipation, he 
is assured that his vitaliy is being utterly destroyed. He is 
never informed, however, of the following cardinal fact, to-wit: 
All involuntary seminal emissions are the effect of con- 
stipation ACCOMPANIED BY NERVOUS EXCITEMENT OF SOME KIND. 
All debility of the sexual organs not directly due to inherited 
general debility, of the constitution, is caused by uncleanliness 
and the wearing of clothing in such a manner that the organs 
are deprived of the conditions of growth. 
All lack of self-control, premature emission in the sexual act, 
failure of erection and similar embarrassments result from the 
continued unnatural conditions in which the sexual organs are 
kept as a result of the neglect, contempt, and general dishonor 
inculcated by a depraved sentiment. 
The foregoing statements are made, of course, with reference 
to men who have originally possessed normal conditions of 
health and who do not come under the following classifications; 
which may be considered as having acquired sexual weakness 
from diseased ancestors or from causes which may be directly 
traced. In the following cases the causes may be more easily 
determined when the facts are known, but the remedy is the 
same in all cases. 
1. General Hereditary Weakness of the constitution, resulting 
from parental incompatibility, parental disease, or an improper 
condition or method of sexual intercourse at the time of con- 
ception of the patient, resulting in small or undeveloped sexual 
organs, weak and excitable nerves and the inability to properly 
perform or prolong the act of copulation or to become the 
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2. Effects of Acute and Chronic Diseases of the reproductive 
organs in male and female, such as gonorrhea, syphilis, stric- 
ture, or inflammation of the bladder, lucorrhea, womb disease, 
or the effect of injuries received by accident or otherwise. 
3. Effects of Abnormal Indulgence in Masturbation, or Self- 
Abuse, Narcotics, Alcohol, or other Stimulants, or Improper 
Sexual Intercourse. 
In all of the above forms the general results are the same in 
the end, viz.: a general debility of the nervous system, failure 
of erection, seminal emissions at night or in the urine, palpita- 
tion of the heart, failure of memory, aversion to society, loss of 
sexual enjoyment. 
In all cases of sexual debility the fact must be borne in mind 
that the sexual organs are organs of sense. Man has seven 
senses, to-wit: gender, touch, taste, hearing, sight, smell, and 
clairvoyance. The sexual organs are the organs of gender, and 
the exquisite pleasure which is derived from their correct uses 
is due to their perception and sensibility to the vibrations of 
magnetism in the lowest stage, which constitutes the sensation 
of gender. 
If man would subject his eyes, ears, nose, or mouth to the 
abuses with which he afflicts his sexual organs, he would soon 
lose the senses of sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Because these 
senses are necessary to his daily vocation, he has learned to 
keep the face and hands practically exposed and these organs 
have nearly normal conditions. But he is not supposed to use 
his sense of gender at all, and it is possible to live without it, 
he has been instructed to keep it covered with several layers of 
dry goods, to neglect the exposure of the organs of gender, to 
neglect cleanliness, to think of it only with shame and to sup- 
press all talk concerning sexual pleasure. Is it any wonder 
that men and women are sexually blind? 
The remedy is obvious. Subject the sexual organs to the same 
treatment that you would apply to the eyes if they weakened 
by the continued application of bandages accompanied by con- 
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The following rational system of cure is based on the prin- 
ciple of avoiding all causes which produce these results and the 
substitution of conditions tending to produce development of the 
other direction. There is always present in nature a grand 
force directed toward recuperation. Nature is constantly em- 
ploying impulses toward the building up of health and normal 
conditions. Disease is the result of the recuperative forces 
being interfered with, or the extraordinary effort which nature 
makes to expel abnormal conditions. 
Civilization has its disadvantages and the prevailing fashions 
of wearing clothing are a fruitful cause of debility and disease 
by causing pressure on the organs, obstructing circulation, and 
causing abnormal conditions in both sexes. 
The Vital or Recuperative System of the body consists of the 
digestive organs and the blood vessels, the heart and lungs, and 
the various glands, such as the liver, stomach, spleen, kidneys, 
testes, etc., and it is by means of the circulation of the blood 
manufactured in the bowels from the food, circulation by the 
heart and blood vessels, and purified by the lungs and glands, 
that disease and wasted tissue is thrown out and new life in- 
jected into all the organs of the body. 
Exposing the sexual organs to natural conditions, regulating 
the digestion, and promoting circulation will cure ninty-five 
per cent of all sexual debility. By these simple measures we 
secure the proper nourishment of the parts and the disposition 
of all diseased, dead, or unnecessary accumulations. 
Exposing the sexual organs to fresh air, sunshine and friction 
as much as possible, every day, and apply plenty of hot and cold 
water in the form of a general bath over the whole body once a 
day, and a special bath of the sexual organs as hereinafter set 
forth as often as is convenient. 
Fresh air and sunshine are just as important to the sexual 
organs as to any other form of growth. If you deprive your 
eyes of these conditions you would soon be blind. It is because 
you have deprived your sexual organs of natural conditions that 
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81 
the gender of the other sex, and you are unable to control the 
action of these organs, as you would in the case supposed, be 
unable to control your eyes. 
Be nude as much as possible, expose the sexual organs to a 
sun bath at least an hour each day if you can spare the time. 
Bathe as directed and at all times cultivate the feeling that your 
sexual organs are as respectable as any other part of your body. 
Be proud of them and keep them in natural, healthy, and clean 
condition, and never prostitute them to base uses. 
Wear clean underclothing and never wrap the sexual organs 
in fold of shirts or underwear of any description. Let the 
scrotum hang on its own muscles, and let the sexual organs 
have the friction of the clothing as you walk. If you get chafed 
you will soon get over it. Persevere. Have your trousers and 
drawers made loose and do not have your shirts long enough to 
necessitate wrapping the fold around the sexual organs. 
It is desirable to change the underwear every day. If this 
makes too big a laundry bill, have suits so you can change very 
frequently and allow the former garments to air until you have 
made the round. 
Promoting circulation in diseased parts will enable 
Nature to use her own forces, which are always employed 
FOR HEALTH AND ENJOYMENT. THIS MAGNIFICENT PRINCIPLE IS 
THE SECRET OF EVERY CURE MADE SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE 
WORLD. The only rational use which can be made of medicine 
is to assist Nature in the application of this principle, and the 
LESS ONE USES DRUGS OF ANY KIND, THE BETTER THEY ARE OFF 
PHYSICALLY. 
The following directions will enable the intelligent reader to 
succeed in promoting circulation. 
1. The cold sponge bath should be taken as frequently as 
possible, either in the morning or evening. Apply cold water to 
the entire person and immediately rub with a rough towel until 
the whole body is in a glow. Dress quickly and take brisk 
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2. A cold foot bath and hand bath should be taken on retir- 
ing. Plunge the hands and feet into the coldest water obtain- 
able. Repeat the plunge once or twice. Dry quickly and then 
rub and slap the hands and feet for five minutes. Jump up and 
down and rub the feet on a piece of brussels carpet until they 
are in a glow; jump into bed and cover the feet warmly. This 
process will produce a reaction of circulation and make the 
hands and feet hot, unless the patient has a very impoverished 
heart action and condition of blood, and when it fails to produce 
the proper effect, the patient should use hot water and sleep 
with the feet in contact with something warm until reaction 
does set in, keeping the soles of the feet hot and the body com- 
fortably covered. If the case is urgent and hot applications 
cannot be conveniently obtained, rub a small quantity of 
cayenne pepper on the soles of the feet and ankles with the 
hands and cover warmly in bed. The foregoing directions are 
sufficient in most cases to cure any case of acute catarrh or cold. 
The Massage of the Sexual Organs. At night, after the foot 
bath, and in a comfortable room, protected from cold draughts 
of air, and with proper privacy, perform the following exercise: 
Subject the entire pelvic region to a vigorous slapping and 
punching exercise, as follows, avoiding any part that may be 
inflamed or sore: slap the penis, the scrotum, and the testicles 
(gently) until they are red and glowing with increased cir- 
culation ; slap the groins the entire surface of the abdomen and 
upper part of the thighs, the anis, and in cases of females, 
particularly the region of the ovaries and lips of the vulva. 
Slap rapidly and smartly with the open hand for five minutes, 
and then roll, punch and knead the parts another five minutes. 
Follow this up with another round of slapping and then another 
round of punching and kneading until every part has been 
thoroughly treated. It will be found less painful to slap the 
penis if the latter is drawn up on the abdomen with the left 
hand and stretched while the right administers the massage. 
The outer skin of the scrotum may be drawn and stretched over 
the left hand while treated, with best results. When this has 
been done for at least twenty minutes—don’t guess at it—then 
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83 
The Cold Compress, a towel wet with the coldest water ob- 
tainable, applied directly to the sexual organs. In male cases 
apply around the scrotum and testicles; in females, to the vulva 
and wrap around with another dry towel and let remain for 
twenty minutes. By that time there should be a vigorous re- 
action of circulation, a profuse perspiration of the parts, and 
the sexual organs should be hot. If on several applications this 
reaction is not obtainable, suitable hot water and cold alter- 
nately for several nights. When the reaction is obtained, the 
compress may be left on all night. If not, or if considered in- 
convenient, the compress may be removed after twenty minutes 
and the parts wiped clean and dry. The object to keep in view 
is the reaction or quickened circulation, which calls a large 
volume of healthy blood to the weakened parts, sweating out 
the diseased matter and local inflammation and restoring 
healthy vigor. 
Persons possessing a magnetic temperament, with good cir- 
culation, will find no difficulty in following this treatment with 
the coldest water obtainable, and such persons are benefited by 
frequent plunge or tub baths in very cold water. They are also 
benefited by eating cold food and drinking copiously of cold 
water. Persons who posses the electric temperament are more 
easily chilled and should resort to tepid or hot baths, use warm 
food, drink hot water, and the use of the compress on the 
sexual organs hot. All persons are benefited by the slapping, 
punching and kneading exercise. 
In every case a certain amount of experiment and observation 
are necessary to adapt the treatment to each individual tem- 
perament and constitution. 
Third. 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS 
The bowels should be kept in a normal condition, and where 
the habit can be formed, it is best to evacuate them before re- 
tiring. Empty the bladder on retiring and establish the habit 
of awakening toward morning and emptying the bladder the 
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and of urine in the bladder creates a pressure upon the seminal 
reservoirs, which are situated directly between the bladder and 
rectum; and this pressure is a fruitful cause of seminal 
emissions. 
The diet should be of a vegetable nature, fruit, nuts, vege- 
tables, eggs, milk. And as much as possible, take these foods 
in the raw state and eat the kind that is harmonious with your 
temperament at a temperature agreeable to your stomach. 
Cultivate a happy, cheerful frame of mind, seek a healthful 
and congenial occupation, pleasant associates, and don’t indulge 
in moody reflections upon your condition or your indiscretions. 
Sleep as much as possible, provided it does not make you 
stupid; cultivate regular habits and practice total abstinence 
from tobacco, alcoholic liquors, tea, coffee, cocoa, narcotics, and 
all indulgences having an unfavorable effect upon the nervous 
system. 
Association with virtuous persons of the opposite sex is 
highly beneficial. Be continually in the society of the other 
sex as much as possible. Avoid exclusive association with per- 
sons of your own sex as far as practicable. Avoid all lewd con- 
versations, jokes, or associations. Cultivate gallantry, love- 
making, kissing, caressing, etc., to the full extent of purity. 
Refrain entirely from sexual intercourse for the first three 
months, and in extreme cases, six months; and avoid every- 
thing which inflames the passion or excites lascivious desires, 
especially lewd imaginations. There is a vast difference be- 
tween love and lust. Cultivate love to the fullest extent and 
expel lust in all forms. 
The cold foot and hand bath may be used to good advantage 
daily. The cold compress and massage may be used as often a* 
benefit is derived. Your own feelings are the best guide. If 
emissions take place at first as a result of the treatment they 
should not be regarded with any alarm but the result of in- 
creased activity of the organs, which will soon disappear. 
When varicocele exists, the greater amount of the treatment 
should be expended in promoting circulation in the scrotum, OF HUMAN RELATIONS 
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and the cold compress should be used frequently. Do not wear 
a suspensory, as it weakens the muscles of the scrotum and 
increases the complaint. 
Where there is difficulty in obtaining an erection, expend the 
greater part of the treatment along the penis and especially at 
the roots where it joins the abdomen. The testes should also 
be vigorously treated. 
By adhering closely to the foregoing instructions and prac- 
ticing cleanliness, which is very essential, in all bodily treat- 
ments, and by giving special attention to the thought current, 
and bearing in mind that proper thinking goes a long way 
toward establishing healthy and harmonious conditions of the 
body. 
One of the essentials in the enjoyment of sexual inter- 
course IS THE QUIETUDE OF MIND AND NERVES, AS WHEN THESE 
ELEMENTS ARE DISTURBED NATURE CANNOT PERFORM HER NORMAL 
FUNCTIONS. 
As heretofore stated, medicines, generally speaking, are very 
detrimental to all functional diseases and also nervous troubles, 
and should be used sparingly, if at all. PROPER EXERCISE AND 
DIET, ALONG WITH SCIENTIFIC MASSAGE AND SPINAL ADJUST- 
MENTS ARE ESSENTIAL IN THE PROMOTION OF PERFECT HEALTH. 
The practice of the principles herein laid down will prove 
beneficial to thousands of readers, if properly adhered to. 
FINIS