Chapter VI.
PROMISCUOUS INTERCOURSE.
USUALLY NOTHING BUT LUST.
No reasoning man who carefully investigates the subject can avoid condemning promiscuous intercourse. In many cases it is almost as unnatural as masturbation. The woman who allows promiscuous privileges in this way cares nothing for a man. There is absolutely no natural reciprocation on the part of the female. His feeling for her is nothing more than the lowest, the most bestial passion. It is simply lust, lust, lust, of the lowest order. The female endures the embrace for whatever she may gain. Such relations are unnatural and therefore productive of both physical and mental deterioration. This would be the unquestionable result even if no disease is acquired, and think of the terrible risk incurred in this way!
"Promiscuous intercourse leads to gonorrhœa, gleet, syphilis, stricture, diseased off-
