Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical JurisprudenceTalmey, Bernard Simon
Science
Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence
Talmey, Bernard Simon
Sex
[EN] Statistics show that it is not at all the question about the men
being continent, but about the boy controlling early passions. Most men
contract venereal diseases between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five.
The mature man is always able to control his passions. The more
healthy, says Chassaignac, and the nearer the normal an individual is,
the better he can not only control his passions, but the less is his
condition likely to be disturbed by continence. It is the neurasthenic
who is most prone to be upset by an attempted or enforced continence
and who, as well, is most given to excess.
[EO] The Talmudists, the keenest observers of human life and conduct,
knew this when they said אבר קטן יש באדם משביעו רעב ומרעיבו שבע
(Sanhedrin, p. 107A). “There is a small organ in the body of a man
which is always hungry if one is trying to satisfy it, and is always
satisfied if one starves it.”
[EP] The family, i. e., near their father and mother, is the only
institution where children were meant to be brought up. No collective
work, settlements, vacation homes or asylums can protect or guide
friendless children properly. The spiritual and emotional education of
the child, the awakening of its higher sentiments can only be carried
out in the atmosphere of the parental home, under the guidance of love
and affection of those who have given life to this child.
[EQ] Since men’s deviation from the strict path of chastity jeopardizes
the very existence of the race, sexual morality must be binding upon
all men, under all conditions without any regard to the original reason
for the establishment of the moral law. A law, in its nature, can
not acknowledge any exceptions. There may be a case where infection
could be excluded with absolute certainty, just as there may be a case
where the father’s doubt would have no consequences for the child.
Embezzlement is also sometimes allowed and even a duty, as Cicero shows
in “De Officiis,” “Si gladium quis apud te sana mente deposuerit,
repetat insaniens, reddere peccatum sit officium non reddere.” In a
remote future, under communism, as Mardach paints it, all the reasons
for male or female sexual morality may become non-existent. Then the
standard will surely change. But in our present state of society one
standard of morality must be established for men and women, from which
no one should have a right to deviate, no matter even if the reasons
for the standard are not applicable in the particular case.
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