The organs of propagation are physiologically distinct from the organs of union in both sexes. The testicles are the principal organs of reproduction in the male, and the uterus in the female. Sexual conjunction of male and female no more involves the discharge of semen than of the urine. The discharge of semen, instead of being the main act of sexual intercourse, is really the sequel and termination of it. Sexual intercourse pure and simple is the conjunction of the organs of union, and the interchange and flow of magnetic influences through that conjunction. The seminal discharge can be voluntarily withheld in sexual intercourse, or it can be produced without sexual intercourse, as in masturbation, which demonstrates the fact that the discharge of the semen, and the pleasure associated with its discharge, is not social, since it can be produced in solitude: it is a personal and not a social act. The physiological analysis of the procreative act shows that the pleasure of the act is not produced by contact and interchange of life with the female, but by the action of the seminal fluid on the internal nerves of the male organ. The desire and that which satisfies it are both within the man, and may be obtained without sexual intercourse. The amative function, or the simple union of two persons, is a distinct and independent function, giving a medium of magnetic interchange superior to that gained through the reproductive function. It is the presence of the seed and not the absence of it that makes the bull superior to the ox, and it is the stimulating, retaining, and absorbing the semen in the man, and directing it into other creative channels, which make the amative act of greater benefit and more healthful and vitalising than the procreative act. Most of us know that creative energy expressed through the sexual nature is an instinct to perpetuate life; that it has its origin in and is co-existent with life itself; that it is the power back of all purposes and plans; that it is the self-pushing force that gives the individual the ability and desire to do and to perform; that it is the impelling factor and inventive genius in all man’s handiwork. That this force operates in the multiplication of atoms and molecules, in the attraction of germ to sperm cells. The process of growth and fulfilment of functions is propelled by this energy, which is operative throughout all Nature. It is the force back of and expresses itself through the physical life of man and animal.