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40 HALL, Winfield Scott. SEX TRAINING IN THE HOME. Plain Talks on Sex Life
Covering All Periods and Relationships From Childhood To Old Age . . . N.p., Medical
Book Distributors, Inc., Publishers [c. 1927].
19½ cm. [2]ff.; 7-128 pp. Orig. maroon cloth gilt-lettered on front board. Very
good. $25
OCLC shows editions in 1914, 1920, and two in 1927 (of which one is the same as
offered here). Hall's credentials, affiliations and publications, listed on the title
page, go on for eleven lines of small print. This book includes a chapter at the
end advocating eugenics, plus unabashed references elsewhere to the supremacy
of the "Aryan" race, etc. MASTURBATION, pp. 75-76 (boys), 82-83 (girls), 101-102
(young men) and 115 (young men of marriage age), with the usual nonsense.
"Granting that masturbation is harmful through loss of semen, is there any compensation
for this loss of semen in case of intercourse with a woman?" (p. 101). Hall admits that
the main mitigating force during intercourse is only psychological, "but that is
certainly sufficient to account for any difference in these two forms of sexual
gratification." (p. 102)
May a man who for two or three yeas of his boyhood practiced masturbation, but who
has reformed, ask a pure woman to be his wife?
Such questions as these are very frequently asked . . .
To consign a man to the Hades of homelessness and the sorrow of
childlessness because through ignorance he lapsed from purity during a few
months or years of his life, would be meting out a retribution far in excess of the
sin. . . . If the young man who, from his twelfth to his eighteenth year, has
practiced masturbation, is shown the error of his way and breaks the habit
absolutely, nature quickly comes to his rescue and rehabilitates his virility
completely, unless he has been guilty of extreme excess in the habit. This
rehabilitation of virility after self-abuse is usually experienced in from one to
three years, according to the case and the extent of the practice. [p. 115]
41 HALL, Winfield Scott, and Jeanette Winter HALL. . . . SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE.
In plain and simple language; sexology or knowledge of self and sex for both male and
female . . . Assisted by Jeannette Winter Hall, . . . Vice Problems Discussed by
Specialists . . . [at head: "Sexual Education for Sex Problems(.) Sex Hygiene by
Highest Authority"] Philadelphia: Published and Manufactured by the
International Bible House, Book and Bible Publishers, [c. 1913 by the
International Bible House].
18½ cm. 320 pp. + frontispiece portrait of the author, and title leaf, both printed
on glossy paper. Orig. maroon cloth gilt-lettered on spine, decoratively lettered
on front board. Back inner hinge weak and shaken, else very good. $25
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