Solar Biology

SEXUAL EXCESSES. 271
thus instructed, and their sexual passions being unrestrained,
are constantly active ; thus, after marriage,
the husband being injudicious, and not understanding
the condition of the wife in regard to her latent or
inactive sexual nature, forces his own abnormally
excited sex activities upon her finer sensibilities, until a
surfeit and revulsion occurs
before her magnetic forces
have time to be turned in that direction ;
and this
revulsion may be so strong that her forces may never
be thus turned, and a repulsion to all the approaches of
the husband is the result.
The pure-minded woman wants love, not passion,
and in many cases only love will succeed in turning
the forces so as to create any demand in that direction.
In some cases, where man's powers in this direction are
much stronger than woman's, the same result occurs.
Also where the woman is weakened by child-bearing or
sickness, this surfeit may occur, so that she will cease
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have any desires in this department of her being.
It sometimes happens that woman is the strongest
or most active sexually, and this may produce greater
harmony, unless the woman is very gross ;
for woman
would be considered a monster should she seek to compel
man to respond to this desire in herself, and man i?
no less a monster when he seeks to compel woman to
gratify these desires on his part.
We have heard good women say that the sound of
their husband's feet coming towards the door filled
them with horror, and their hearts would sink within
them from sadness ;
all caused by the injudicious conduct
of the husband, though kind-hearted and having
good intentions. No pen can portray the miseries at