From Those Who Have Practised This Method.

I am a young man twenty-four years of age, enjoying the most vigorous health. For two years after becoming engaged I delayed marriage, simply because I did not think my income sufficient to support a wife and the children which I regarded as an inevitable consequence. Happily for me, a friend who knew my circumstances wrote me about male continence. The ideas contained in this discovery were so different from all my preconceived ideas of what constituted marital happiness that I was inclined to reject them as utterly impracticable and absurd. But the more I thought of the matter, the more clearly I saw that if there was a possibility of these new ideas being true, they were exactly adapted to a man in my circumstances, and that they made my marriage immediately practicable.

The wholly new thought, that retaining the vital seminal secretion in the body, instead of spending it recklessly, might make a man stronger, cleaner, and better, also seemed to me not irrational. With some misgivings, therefore, I ventured upon marriage; and, thanks to this practice, it has been found a complete success. I have had a continuous honeymoon for four years, besides having the daily use of my wife’s invaluable services in my business, and have never been conscious of any irksome constraint or asceticism in my sexual experience, and my self-control and strength, mental and physical, have greatly increased since my marriage. In the light of my own experience, I regard the idea that the seminal fluid is a secretion that must be got rid of as being the most pernicious and fatal one that can possibly be taught to young people.

My age is seventy years, and, thanks to male continence, my health is good and I am as vigorous sexually as I ever was. My only regret is that I was not informed of it earlier in life. It is not only a splendid sanitary measure, but is a promoter of pleasure and the greatest harmoniser of domestic life that I know. It is my decided opinion that where this practice is adhered to, except where reproduction is desired, strife and contention, separation and divorce would never occur. It seems to me that no one who is seeking improvement would, after experiencing this practice, ever wish to go back to the crude sensual practice in whose wake follow satiety, exhaustion, disgust, and remorse.

The waste of vital and nerve force attending the usual custom of intercourse is, in my opinion, a leading cause of the craving for alcohol and tobacco; while in this new practice both parties, if magnetism exists, experience a renewal of life force that is in the highest degree wholesome. If young men would abide by this practice they would find that their self-control would be immensely enhanced in every department of life, and that they would retain the vigor and enjoyment of their sexual nature long after the generality of men have become impotent.

From a Woman.

Since my husband became acquainted with this new theory he has endeared himself to me a hundredfold; and although our so-called “honeymoon” was passed five years ago, it was no more real and far less lasting than the ecstatic, the unspeakable happiness which is now continually mine. My prosaic and sometimes indifferent husband has changed by a heavenly magic into an ardent and entrancing lover, for whose coming I watch with all the tender raptures of a schoolgirl. His very step sends a thrill through me, for I know that my beloved will clasp me in his arms and cover me with kisses, such as only the most enthusiastic lover could give. And though the years lapse, I cannot see or feel any change in the way he cherishes me. To each other we are continually objects of the deepest reverence and the most sacred mystery. Our affection deepens, our romance seems as sure and as enduring as the stars. I date my marriage from the time that he became a student of Zugassent, for that was the beginning of our assured happiness.

But it is not alone as a cherishing lover that my husband has become the crown of my happiness. He has grown perceptibly nobler in character, in purpose, and in strength; so that besides a lover I have a strong friend, a wise councillor, and my happiness is complete.

A Husband of Fifteen Years.

It gives me happiness to testify to the beneficial effects of this method, because I am earnestly convinced that no other discovery in physical science has ever been made which is of such importance to the welfare of the human race. In proportion as I have followed this method life has become wholesome and happy. It avoids the opposite evils of asceticism and self-indulgence, and does more than any other single thing to make the marriage relation a perpetual courtship. I am a husband of fifteen years, and speak of matters that I know.

A Letter to J. H. Noyes.

This Yankee nation claims to be a nation of inventors, but the discovery of male continence puts you, in my mind, at the head of all inventors. There has been no higher conservation of force than that realised by this method, and I am confident that the blessings which will flow from it cannot be measured by those which have followed the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

A Friend.

A school friend of mine who lived in a large manufacturing town in New York State, and has been married five years, had learned during the first months of marriage this method of birth control. She was radiant with happiness; did not desire a child until they had made provision for the future. Husband worked ten hours in the electrical works, after which he played a cornet in a concert, which kept him until after midnight every night. Such long hours of labor would deplete and exhaust the average man, but this fellow was as radiant and strong as one could picture. Both claimed it is the practice of this method to which they owe their health, strength, and happiness.

A Grandmother.

A grandmother came from San Francisco to assist at the birth of a grandchild. Had been married thirty-five years, but looked like a girl of twenty-eight in figure and color. I was amazed at the vivacity and eagerness and joyous health of this woman. Every day she received one or two letters from her husband, who had remained in San Francisco; and from part of them which she read to me one would think he was some ardent and forlorn lover of eighteen. She claimed she had always practised this method, and knew of a few others who practised it, and found its practice superior to any other. She was the most beautiful sexually alive woman I have ever known, and the most modest. “True modesty is a sentiment which springs, not from indifference or aversion to the sexual offices, but from a delicate and reverent appreciation of their value.”