ONAN ESCHEWED - Rick Grunder

opinion was: 'If this young man escapes the asylum he and his parents will be
fortunate.'" (p. 127)
"SELF-POLLUTION," pages 123-27 of volume II, includes something I have not
seen elsewhere: Actual before-and-after photographs of a masturbator (ILLUS-
TRATED ABOVE). If the second image is retouched to an outrageous extent, I'm
sure that the authors had only our health and best interests in mind.
The health soon becomes noticeably impaired; there will be general debility, a
slowness of growth, weakness in the lower limbs, nervousness and unsteadiness
of the hands, loss of memory, forgetfulness and inability to study or learn, a
restless disposition, weak eyes and loss of sight, headache and inability to sleep,
or wakefulness. Next come sore eyes, blindness, stupidity, consumption, spinal
affection, emaciation, involuntary seminal emissions, loss of all energy or spirit,
insanity and idiocy—the hopeless ruin of both body and mind. These latter
results do not always follow. Yet they or some of them do often occur as the
direct consequences of the pernicious habit. [p. 123]
Fathers may have to take their sons to the doctor, whereas mothers can talk
about these things more easily with their daughters, p. 123. Young children
should be taught "that it is immodest and even wrong, to handle the parts."
(p. 124).
A Terrible Evil.—In the City of Chicago in one school, an investigation proved that
over sixty children under thirteen years of age were habitually practicing this degrading,
health and life destroying habit, while among the older ones the habit was even worse,
though not so easily detected.
In a country school in Black Hawk Co., Iowa, one bad boy secretly taught all the rest
until the entire school practiced this private vice during the noon hour when the teacher
was away.
In New Orleans nearly all the pupils in a large female boarding school were practicing
this horrible vice and the scandal of the fearful discovery is not yet forgotten. [p. 124]
115 WOOD-ALLEN, (Mrs.) Mary. . . . ALMOST A MAN. By Mary Wood-Allen, M.D.,
Author of "Teaching Truth"; "Child-Confidence Rewarded;" ["]Caring for the Baby";
"The Man Wonderful"; "Almost a Woman"; "Ideal Married Life;" Etc. . . . [at head:
"Teaching Truth Series"]. Cooperstown, N.Y.: Published by The Arthur H. Crist
Co., 1911 [c. 1907 by Crist, Scott &Parshall].
18½ cm. viii, [9]-99, [1 (ads)] pp., counting frontispiece portrait of the author.
Frontispiece and title leaf printed on glossy paper. Orig. blue cloth lettered in
white on front board, and on spine with the simple letter "M." Medium wear to
binding; internally nearly fine. two books: $50
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