WEEK
35
Lecture to Young Men on Chastity
Languor, lassitude, muscular relaxation,
general debility and heaviness, depression of spirits, loss of
appetite, indigestion, faintness and sinking at the pit of the
stomach, increased susceptibilities of the skin and lungs to all
the atmospheric changes, feebleness of circulation, chilliness,
headache, melancholy, hypochondria, hysterics, feebleness of all
the senses, impaired vision, loss of sight, weakness of the lungs,
nervous cough, pulmonary consumption, disorders of the liver and
kidneys, urinary difficulties, disorders of the genital organs,
spinal diseases, weakness of the brain, loss of memory, epilepsy,
insanity, apoplexy.
—Sylvester Graham,* on the perils
of frequent (more than monthly) copulation between married couples,
A Lecture to Young Men on Chastity,
1834