_Over-Indulgence._—Over-indulgence, in anything, is the gravest and almost the only sin, from the standpoint of the individual. If the young girl eats too much of her favorite sweet, she is almost sure to pay for it by stomach ache, or indigestion. This stands equally true for all ages. We have mentioned onanism. To be sure, most adults deny this fact, and lyingly state that such was not the habit when they were young. How much better, then, to admit it as a part of all youthful experience, and combat it wisely and intelligently, and not to raise horrified hands, and make the young person feel that she has committed a heinous crime, the more dreadful because she is the first offender? The wisest and best course is to avoid onanism altogether. If that is not possible, at first, go in vigorously for physical and mental distractions, and rigorously control it, until such a time as you can entirely end it. Over-indulgence in intercourse is just as costly. This may either be socially illicit intercourse, or intercourse in the marital state. At times a married couple contains one or both members with a tendency toward nymphomania, or excessive desire for men, in the woman, or toward satyriasis, or excessive desire for women in the man. If the tendency is too powerful, society is saved, because the parties so weaken themselves that reproduction is impossible, and death or complete mental or physical incapacity results. If it is merely a tendency, it should and must be controlled. Every man and every woman must determine for himself and herself the frequency of intercourse. Women, in general, are less harmed by excess than men are. But this does not mean that women cannot carry it to excess. There is less chance for her doing it, if she confines her life to one man than if she chooses many men. The general result of a woman’s over-indulgence is weakened nervous conditions, which may even terminate in a complete mental breakdown, or in insanity. _Venereal Diseases._—The two chief venereal diseases are gonorrhea and syphilis. So far, we have voiced a loud outcry against popular lies concerning sex. Now we will consider another of these lies, as harmful as any of the previous ones: namely, that gonorrhea is “no worse than a cold.” This is commonly accepted among most men and many women, and many a good-hearted old family doctor will reassure the troubled young man or woman with the same poisonous mental soothing syrup. Gonorrhea, once contracted, is extremely difficult to eradicate. Many a man, acquiring it from a prostitute or promiscuous woman, has infected his innocent wife; many a man has infected an otherwise clean woman. Worse, many an innocent girl, thinking because her friend is a gentleman and nice in every way, has only to be repaid by this disease.