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FUNCTION OF GENERATION. 153
beauties of woman ; he clasps her waist, he presses
her soft bosom, and in a tumult of delirious ecstasy,
each finds the central point of attraction and of pleas
ure, which increases until it is completed in the sexual
—the most exquisite enjoyment of which the
orgasm
human senses are capable.
It has been asked whether the male or female en
joyed most the ultimation of love. I have no doubt,
that in a healthy condition, the pleasure of the female
is longer continued, more frequently repeated, and
more exquisite than that of the male ; and that it is in
this way that she is compensated for her long periods
of deprivation ; as she also is by the pleasures of ma
ternity, of which man has little conception.
There are a few practical observations, which may
be properly made here, connected with the physiology
of the sexual as congress given above. The organs of
generation, in both sexes, are excited and stimulated by
idleness, luxury, and every form of voluptuous beauty.
Where it is desirable to avoid such excitement, all these
must be guarded against. Passionate poetry and ro
mances, warm pictures, dancing, especially the dancing
of the stage, the fashionable display of female arms and
bosoms, all fond toyings, and personal freedoms between
the sexes, must be avoided by those with whom chastity
is a necessity of age or circumstance. The lips are
supplied with nerves of sensation from the cerebellum ;
and the kisses of the lips are sacred to love. The bosom
is also supplied with nerves from the same source, and
it is in the most direct and intimate sympathy with the
female generative organs. A woman of sensibility, who
would preserve her chastity, must guard her bosom well.