The married, as well as the unmarried, have involuntary discharges of
semen when every possible opportunity is present for an emission to
take place in the natural way. The newly married, after the novelty
period has subsided may, from excessive indulgence, have an involuntary
emission, which occurred during a lascivious dream, when no desire for
cohabitation preceded his going to sleep. When the cause producing
these involuntary emissions is not transitory, the young man must have
indulged extensively in his boyhood. Such a discharge, if followed by
the usual depressing effects, is invariably pathological; yet with
proper rest, self-recovery is probable when the cause is transitory.
_Sequelæ._――The common results of spermatorrhœa and sexual excesses
become noticeable, either shortly before or soon after marriage.
The young man well knows his defects, and he consults a physician to
ascertain the magnitude of what may occur to him on account of his
indiscretions. He informs us that sexual orgasm occurs very soon after
intromission, on account of which he is grieved, and fears that his
buxom, voluptuous bride will not be satisfied with such tantalizing as
he may be able to afford. A few months’ tonic treatment encourages him,
and he makes a trial of his condition before entering wedlock, that
he may be sure not to disappoint his fresh, true and virtuous maiden.
Again, the matrimonial rites have been consummated, and the young man
fails to reach the expected goal of marital adaptation and aptitude:
the wife is of course unsophisticated, and thinks there is nothing
wrong; but the husband is well satisfied that he is not what will be
expected, or what is necessary to promote marital felicity; and he
consults his physician. Perhaps he was not a little disgusted, upon the
first attempt at intromission, at ejaculating his semen either upon her
linen, thighs, or vulva; she of course being innocent and not knowing
the why such was not the natural procedure, he could excuse himself and
thereby palliate his embarrassment.
Others, less sensitive in organic construction, do not understand these
shortcomings, and are not _quantum sufficit_ for a healthy female, as
ejaculation follows a moment’s rapid copulative movement, leaving
the female aflamed with erotic passion, and physiological turgescence
of the sexual apparatus. These are only the _sequelæ_ of seminal
weakness, such as pertain to the neurotic origin and character of this
disease. The grave and less common results are, as the symptomatology
illustrates, spinal anæmia and congestion, cerebral anæmia and
hyperæmia, insanity, epilepsy, tabes dorsalis (progressive locomotor
ataxia), paralysis, impotence and structural disease of the heart and
blood-vessels.
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