I am a young man twenty-four years of age, enjoying the most vigorous
health. For two years after becoming engaged I delayed marriage, simply
because I did not think my income sufficient to support a wife and the
children which I regarded as an inevitable consequence. Happily for me,
a friend who knew my circumstances wrote me about male continence. The
ideas contained in this discovery were so different from all my
preconceived ideas of what constituted marital happiness that I was
inclined to reject them as utterly impracticable and absurd. But the
more I thought of the matter, the more clearly I saw that if there was a
possibility of these new ideas being true, they were exactly adapted to
a man in my circumstances, and that they made my marriage immediately
practicable.
The wholly new thought, that retaining the vital seminal secretion in
the body, instead of spending it recklessly, might make a man stronger,
cleaner, and better, also seemed to me not irrational. With some
misgivings, therefore, I ventured upon marriage; and, thanks to this
practice, it has been found a complete success. I have had a continuous
honeymoon for four years, besides having the daily use of my wife’s
invaluable services in my business, and have never been conscious of any
irksome constraint or asceticism in my sexual experience, and my
self-control and strength, mental and physical, have greatly increased
since my marriage. In the light of my own experience, I regard the idea
that the seminal fluid is a secretion that must be got rid of as being
the most pernicious and fatal one that can possibly be taught to young
people.