I must consider the consequences of onanism from two points of view:
a) Consequences for the patient.
b) Consequences for the family and all mankind.
All of the above leads us to the conclusion that masturbation must to some extent affect individual parts of the human body and the entire body as a whole. The main question - what bad consequences does masturbation entail, is solved by various researchers contradictorily.
Tissot was the first to highlight this issue from a scientific point of view (1770), then Lalemand dealt with this issue in 1836 and wrote a special study “On Various Anomalies”. , comprehended the above work. It aroused great interest in itself in the circles of scientists around the world and for a long time served as a guiding thread for resolving a number of seemingly insoluble questions. Lalemand concludes that masturbation gives amazing consequences: diseases of the spinal cord, spinal tabes, various kinds of brain diseases, progressive paralysis, insanity, etc. With the light hand of Lalemand, the so-called "literature of sex" began to multiply by leaps and bounds, and until now the sexual question "truth" is interpreted differently. Almost all researchers agree on one, that the abuse of onanism weakens the entire nervous system, but not in such a sharp form as Lalemand and Tissot draws.
The nervous system generally has the ability to increase and decrease memory, depending on mental labor, to multiply and weaken energy, to raise and lower the state of mind (mood). These phenomena, of course, can be caused by masturbation. Heredity plays an important role in the neurasthenic area, and, of course, heredity is also not excluded in masturbation. That is why we conclude that masturbation in exceptional cases can pass without a trace, but, as a general phenomenon, masturbation gives serious consequences of a very serious nature.
Many people have a bewildered question: why can masturbation cause any consequences of an unpleasant nature, since in its process it is so merged with sexual intercourse, that is. with aggregation. We will answer this by referring to the conclusions of the researchers Fürbinger and Kurshman, as eminent neuropathologists. Both of them point out that masturbation is harmful, firstly, because it starts too early and involves in long protracted processes, and secondly, it is very accessible. While a man must look for women to satisfy his sexual needs, the vice of onanism is available to him at any moment, and he indulges in it excessively without the participation of the opposite sex.
The influence that masturbation exerts on the nervous system is extremely dangerous, since the entire nervous system of a person is constantly inflamed from the possibility of frequent manipulations.
Erb further aggravates this concept by the fact that the subject who resorts to onanism also experiences a moral decline, because after satisfaction he feels that he has done something vicious. A struggle arises in the soul between duty, his moral state and physical need, that we call "remorse" affects the nervous system and, in betrothal to the physical act, causes an extremely depressed state of mind, and this latter again leads to excitement and repetition of masturbation.
As far as I know, a very small percentage of onanics suffer from moral experiences. For the majority, however, an unpleasant sensation arises, which passes quickly, a sensation in which the volitional instincts give way to the instincts of voluptuousness, and the person falls into the abyss. The naturalness of the approach to the possibility of satisfying oneself at any moment, of course, differs significantly from the act of copulation, in which the temperature of the bodies that accompanies pleasure guarantees a certain physical pleasure that causes the highest tension up to the resolution of the act.
The contradictions that have arisen in connection with the question of what harmful consequences come from onanism, after the foregoing, are quite obvious. Various doctors characterized the consequences of onanism, depending on certain results of it. Lomius considers lethargy, epilepsy, apoplexy, convulsions, blurred vision, and even blindness to be the result of onanism. And not only did he find "believers" among the public, but many doctors consider Lomius's view to be correct. However, a little time passed, and the doctors not only doubted Lomius's diagnoses, but little by little began to consider masturbation an almost harmless vice. And only after A thorough study of the question of the influence of sexual activity on the whole organism and on each organ separately, several medical congresses came to the unshakable conclusion that masturbation is harmful and its consequences are very, very serious.
Fournier argues that nature itself resolves this difficult question, how harmful masturbation is, and that nature does not need exaggerations on the part of doctors. The specificity of the influence of onanism depends, of course, on many reasons: on the frequency of abuse, on sex, temperament, nervous system and the power of perception.
Such eminent scientists as Kurshman and Furbinger establish that the consumption of semen is not of great importance for the body and does not weaken it, and that when considering the harm of onanism, ejaculation should not be taken into account as a very serious minus. This, however, is not the case. Masturbation, performed at any time and extracting the semen in unlimited quantities, gradually reduces the number of livestock (spermatozoa), there is a gradual depletion of the germ cells (sperm), and the seed itself becomes thinner. This fact alone proves that ejaculation is not completely indifferent to the human body. Some authorities join my opinion, agreeing with me that the loss of semen in a man causes weakness and breakdown after copulation, while a woman who shows significant activity during copulation gets tired for a short time, i.e. not for long. It can be concluded with certainty that during onanism the entire human body is subjected to significant changes. Masturbation affects the mental, mental and physical abilities of a person.
Lively rumors caused this question in special discussions among doctors. It will be interesting for readers to get acquainted with my point of view on this issue, which is the result of practice.
Both Kurshman and Furbinger believe that masturbation and similar sexual intercourse give exactly the same effects in both cases and that the loss of semen, as we have said above, in their opinion, is not harmful to the body.
However, such a high tension of the nervous system, both central and peripheral (partial), could be harmless if both acts - onanism and copulation were performed moderately. Excess is equally harmful in the first and in the second question. This is what Kurshman and Furbinger think, and therefore moderate onanism, as we can conclude from their conclusions, is not harmful.
Prof. Erb joins this opinion, and argues that natural and masturbatory sexual satisfaction gives the same results, and vice versa, according to Erb, nervous excitement from a relationship with a woman is much sharper than masturbation. I believe that there is a huge difference between masturbation and copulation: with masturbation, an excited fantasy is necessary, brain work is very intense, and therefore the entire nervous system is more suffering than during copulation.
The opinion of these authorities concerns only the moderation of onanism and the moderation of copulation. But I pose the question, what is excess in relation to sexual functions. This question is also asked by Prof. Koch, who asks: “Where is the beginning of excess?” I have already pointed out above that there is almost no way to establish the moderation and excess of sexual excesses, since this depends on the individual characteristics of each subject. Here physique, lifestyle, temperament, sex, climate and a number of other phenomena play a role; what we will consider excessive for some is the most natural need of the organism of another person. One can only say that both sexual intercourse and masturbation depend on the individual abilities of each individual subject. During intercourse, fantasy occurs only depending on the action of the opposite sex. Here the fantasy is of a very real order, carnal, existing. Movements of the female body, hugs , mutual touch of bodies, visual impressions from observing certain parts of the body, kisses - all these are phenomena that cause external irritations. Thus, fantasy does not work very intensively during natural copulation, since all representations are caused by real facts. Added to this are the sensations of friction and movements of a tense member along the genital slit of a woman; these purely mechanical conditions lead to such a degree of orgasmus that ejaculation occurs without the participation of imagination.
With masturbation, there is not enough object of the opposite sex and its absence is replaced by fantastic ideas. The object rubs its genitals with its hands, and due to the fact that sensitivity gradually decreases with the frequency of masturbation, fantasy comes to the rescue. The brain and the entire nervous system reach such an apogee of boiling that all the energy of a person is directed only to one thing, as if it were more natural and more realistic to imagine annoying images. What a terrible effect this must have on a child's brain, which is only in its developmental period. So, the question of whether onanism is harmful, if in its frequency it does not exceed the number of copulations, must be resolved in a positive direction, i.e. that onanism is more harmful than copulation.
Fantasy tension associated with increased work of the entire central nervous system, more significant during onanism than during normal sexual intercourse.
And therefore, onanism has an unquestionably more harmful effect on the entire organism and has a degrading effect on it.
As for moderation, even within its limits, masturbation negatively affects the mental sphere and is much more harmful than copulation, even if it comes to ejaculation.
The frequency of onanism is one of the moments of its harm, surpassing copulation.
A person who has a sexual desire, along with this, all the urges for onanism appear. Prof. Koch gives statistics in which he observed the frequency of masturbation from 15-18-year-old students from 4-6 times a day. Prof. Kurshman notes that the very first appearance of sexual lust entails immediate satisfaction, since nothing interferes, and later on helps even the subject to find satisfaction.
Masturbation has a more harmful effect on the body than natural intercourse, also because it sets in much earlier, when the body and spirit of a person are still in the period of development. These moments are especially dangerous and heavy in their consequences for a person's life. Masturbation is more harmful than normal copulation in that it affects the character of a person. Furbinger establishes that the character of the onanist changes due to ignoring the opposite sex, i.e. physiological reduction, the significance of the opposite sex. And in the future, a habit sets in, which destroys all attempts to fight it, in other words, the habit becomes stronger and stronger, and the will falls, while the character of the onanist sharply decreases from these phenomena.
Masturbation is more harmful than normal intercourse also because it causes a feeling of remorse, a short-term feeling of dissatisfaction.
Erb points out that the constant struggle between excessive attraction and moral duty has a detrimental effect on the nervous system and turns most masturbators into neurasthenics.
Greisinger proves that the struggle and discord between shame, repentance and overwhelmed desires causes extreme suffering for onanists. Depressed mood, depression from the consciousness of a defeated struggle leads to more acute self-exercises in onanism. Each time, after an act of onanism, a certain reaction of a moral order sets in, but it quickly disappears. The nervous system is shaken more and more. That is why there are those serious consequences that masturbation entails.
While the act of intercourse only causes fatigue, masturbation entails a breakdown. People, after the act of copulation, most often fall into a deep pleasant sleep, meanwhile, after onanism, they feel depressed, overwhelmed and stay awake for a long time. Based on many medical studies and observations, it can be said with confidence that people, who are quite normal, not only do not find anything pleasant in fatigue after masturbation, but, on the contrary, feel a sharp depression in themselves. Natural ejaculation gives its physiological effects, ejaculation caused by onanism, from the point of view of medicine, indicates the loss of semen, which we also lose during wet dreams.
Women after sexual intercourse and after onanism are never so exhausted as men. All of the above convinces us that masturbation, in comparison with natural intercourse undoubtedly more harmful to the organism, despite the fact that the same effects (semen effusion) follow in both processes. We further conclude that even moderate masturbation is more harmful than moderate intercourse. The spiritual strength of onanists suffers especially. As for the question of excessive sexual intercourse, there is no doubt that it is just as harmful as onanism, because it causes increased nervous activity, enormous sexual tension, and all this exposes the nervous system to spinal irritations.
Predisposition plays a very important role in all these cases. We often see how healthy people with a strong nervous system, under the influence of onanism, become weak-willed, depressed and destroyed. And vice versa, we sometimes see that thin and weak people, regardless of masturbation, retain their strength and appearance.
Masturbation affects the various organs of our body differently. In children, for example, the central nervous system is affected, which leads to convulsions, convulsions, hysteria, and even epilepsy. Others begin to suffer from damage to the abdominal regions, resulting in palpitations, shortness of breath and seizures. Some have diarrhoea, catarrh of the stomach, intestines, and generally acute gastrointestinal diseases. In other patients, vision becomes dull, photophobia (photophobia), eyelid cramps appear. In a word, onanism gives such a vivid picture of various diseases that we must further dwell on each form separately, without combining them into one group.
The consequences of onanism are divided into:
1. Damage to the central nervous system;
2. Damage to the organs of external senses;
3. The defeat of the psyche and mind;
4. Defeat of digestion;
5. Influence on blood circulation and respiration;
6. Influence on the muscular organization;
7. Influence of onanism on the genitals.
8. Masturbation and its effect on the body as a whole.
The nervous system connects all the organs of our body into one inseparable whole. Our mental faculties every minute come into contact with the nervous system, on which all our movements and sensations depend.
The nervous system is a very organized region in its structure, and every impression received from the outside is recorded through the nervous system in the brain.
After this, there is nothing surprising in the fact that our nervous system is affected under the influence of vice. That internal connection that exists between the genital organs and the nervous system, and, mainly, the spinal cord, should be affected before all organs. Modern medicine has called this case sexual neurasthenia.
The ancient Jewish code of laws, the Talmud, speaks of the influence of onanism on the nervous system. This wise book indicates that those who indulge in masturbation dry their brains, and that in such people one can overhear how “the brain in the skull is shaking.” The picture that we observe in masturbation is extremely changeable and diverse.
Sexual neurasthenia refers to that form of nervous weakness, which is found in the violation of sexual intercourse, caused by a lesion of the sexual property. In this case, of course, other diseases are also possible.
The diseases that occur during onanism are so diverse that a list of them and a clear summary is beyond the scope of this work, but, considering the need to teach every doctor at least some information about these diseases, I will dwell on them in a few words.
Three types of neurasthenia attract the attention of the famous psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing.
1. Local neurosis, which is expressed in frequent pollutions and early ejaculation.
2. Lumbar neurosis, accompanied by neuralgia of the lumbosacral nerve plexus and frequent day and night pollutions, with a sharp decrease in will.
3. Increase in neurasthenic symptoms. This phenomenon affects the cerebrospinal system to such an extent that it causes sexual anomalies, such as temporary aspermatism (lack of semen), in which sperm does not appear outside, spermation and other types. This scheme of Kraft-Ebing is not completely legitimized, indisputable and unshakable, but in general terms it gives the correct interpretation of the disease. Sexual excesses can lead to spinal neurasthenia without violating the correct functions of the genital organs. On the contrary, I have the courage to assert that the genital organs are not disturbed by anything. If we remember how, due to excessive sexual intercourse or onanism, our sexual excesses have been modified, then we will be convinced that patients who abuse sexual intercourse adjoin the third stage of the scheme established by Kraft-Ebing. From various kinds of sexual excesses, various neurasthenic consequences are obtained. Onanism causes cerebral neurasthenia, excessive intercourse causes spinal neurasthenia, interrupted copulation causes mental impotence.
There are, of course, deviations from the provisions I have cited. The cerebral phenomena of sexual neurasthenia entail headaches and put pressure on the brain. Pressure and pain are felt in the forehead or in the back of the skull. Right mental activity is naturally disturbed by all this, patients refuse their work; they are unable to read, write, or work, and their general mood is gloomy, but associated with insomnia, melancholy, a sense of fear, dullness of mental faculties, lack of energy and increased irritability. With all their desire, patients are deprived of the opportunity to pull themselves together and show self-control. Very often they lose their memory, and these patients show disturbances of various senses.
I have seen patients who are strongly irritated by the light, in such cases they seek solitude, avoid acquaintances and fall into the power of hypochondria and melancholy.
The book market is flooded with the most ridiculous popular literature, crude and ignorant in its content, in which the consequences of various diseases are unbelievably depicted, such as "spinal cord disease", "softening of the brain", "insanity", etc.
Spinal phenomena are associated with the brain and with other centers. Here, weakness, fatigue, the appearance of pain in the lumbar region and in the limbs come into the arena. Patients complain of crawling on the back, cold, heaviness in various members, pain and neuralgia. These purely individual sensations must be taken into account by the physician in the diagnosis and determined by examination. Trembling of the extremities, vibratory twitches, especially in the fingers, an increased knee jerk with a slight blow - all this indicates a serious disease, for the treatment of which the doctor must arm himself with knowledge and patience.
Excessive masturbation most often causes cerebral neurasthenia. Well-known prof. Levenfeld proves that masturbators engaged in prolonged mental labor most often suffer from cerebral neurasthenia and cerebral weakness, and, conversely, masturbators who indulge in physical labor are more likely to suffer from spinal cord disease.
Geslin explains neurasthenia in two ways: by fatigue of the centers of sexual activity, which occurs as a result of overstimulation, and by mental influences, in which the patient constantly thinks about the consequences that may arise. This causes him suffering and fear, this develops in him a hatred of life, creates melancholy and depressed mood.
The whole life, thoughts and fantasy of these patients are occupied with ideas revolving only around sexual tendencies. Gessling notes that in many married people of this category, the fear of his wife, that he can fall into sexual relaxation and create an atmosphere of legalized adultery, is so great that the patient is looking for the most artificial ways to abolish this and, not finding it, falls into a depressed mood, which is serious. affects his nervous system.
Masturbation brings absolutely incalculable troubles to young men who have a predisposition to this act on the part of their parents. Such youths are subjected to cerebral neurasthenia, with all the consequences that follow from this, up to neurasthenic seizures. Furbinger says that he knew one young man, excellent heredity and flourishing health, which lost everything under the influence of onanism and reached complete exhaustion.
Many argued about how masturbation affects different sexes and in whom it causes more severe neurasthenia: in men or in women. Personally, I don't think there is much of a difference. Gessling says that men suffer comparatively less from emaciation than women, since they are more prone to natural sexual intercourse.
As for the opinion that the disappearance of an erection or eruption of the seed ends with masturbation, this is not entirely true. Masturbation, in contrast to normal copulation, does not need an erection, but only requires lust, desire.
Thus, from the foregoing, we conclude that onanism has an extremely sharp effect on the nervous system, the result of which is severe disturbances of the entire nervous system. Of course, there are cases of suicide, but I do not consider this a sufficiently striking factor, and those who claim that this is so, in my opinion, exaggerate somewhat.
The above opinion, that masturbation first of all affects vision, has not received sufficient interpretation in the previous part of this work. I consider it necessary to dwell on this point. It should, however, be borne in mind that not only the eye, but the sense of smell, the ear, and even speech undergo abnormal changes as a result of onanism. Tissot, and especially Koch, already in 82 pointed out the influence of onanism on vision.
Koch draws his conclusions from a number of observations of young men and women in whom eye diseases developed consistently and strongly and disappeared with the cessation of masturbation. The well-known ophthalmologists Morin, Galezovsky and Fitzgerald support their observations with a stunning list of victims of onanism. Prof. Koch makes a reference to his practice, which resulted in a number of patients suffering from subjective eye diseases, expressed in photophobia.
Outwardly, the eyes of onaks do not bear traces of lesions in all respects: normal pupils, a certain visual acuity, tension and sensation of light, the optic nerve and retina are in order, but nevertheless, the eyes of onaks are so afraid of light that gradually all eye functions are weakened, the apple gets the appearance of some kind of matte cast and the patients begin to feel dizzy. Usually, patients show this in both eyes at the same time, and these phenomena are accompanied by characteristic symptoms, such as, for example, phosphorization of the pupil, the appearance of some kind of snow flakes, circles, dots, insects before the eyes; patients go through such a state all the time, as if from the darkness they fall into a bright light, reading becomes completely impossible. Morin relates that an American woman who had masturbated for many years brought her eyesight to such a low state that she could not bear the glare of extraneous eyes.
In patients this reaction lasts between a month and several years, but I know of a patient who suffered eye damage from onanism for 20 years. Patients complained of pain in the sacral region, but there was no definite data at my disposal for the fact that they had tassel dorsalis, on the contrary, at the same time I noticed all the signs of neurasthenia in them, such as insomnia and strongly pronounced nocturnal emissions.
The age of patients suffering from visual impairment falls, for the most part, on people from 15-30 years old, while most patients have been engaged in masturbation for years, several times a day. I knew one patient who had been masturbating for 23 years, and the other two men I had used extensively for decades and, as I later learned, both of them married and continued to masturbate.
The cause of visual impairment must be sought in the brain, since the optic nerves, according to oculists, are not affected.
Old maids and women in general are very susceptible to rapid eye disease from masturbation, and for the most part it appears in the form of dry catarrh of the connective membrane of the eyes. For my colleagues, I report the appearance of the following symptoms: reddening of the connective sheath, without discharge of pus or any other secret, pressure in the region of the pupil and a burning sensation. I knew one 24-year-old patient who had been masturbating since the age of 15 every day, 4 times a day. He confessed to me that he always feels a little intoxicated, as if from morphine, and despite all the desire to stop masturbation, he cannot do this, because without it he feels oppressed and lonely. Soon this patient developed all the signs in the eyes that I have described above.
Foerster, Landesberg, and I observed a patient who developed catarrh of the connective sheath, so easily cured at a young age if it comes from other causes than masturbation, and so difficult to treat with masturbation.
Cramps of the eyelids, redness of the optic nerve, as a result of onanism, prof. Morin observed in very many patients, especially in women. Foerster cites cases of the appearance of basic disease in women, under the influence of an early-developed defect, as well as a complete greening of the cataract, and Gutchinson observed internal bleeding of the eye that arose on the basis of onanism.
Thus, it is possible to establish with certainty the duration and frequency of masturbation in patients as soon as they develop light diseases. While ophthalmologists struggle with these phenomena for a long time, among ononics these phenomena cease immediately as soon as the patients stop masturbating.
Daniel Benwer (famous Hamburg ophthalmologist) reports a case of hypersensitivity of the retina as a result of masturbation. This specialist had a 29-year-old patient who reacted to light so much that he had to wear dark glasses. This patient was a public teacher, with his vicious lasciviousness he brought himself to the point that he had to give up teaching at school. Benver made an examination of the eyes with a mirror and found that all the optic nerves, sheath, etc., were in perfect order. I recommend in these cases to resort to electrification, sodium bromide and arsenic. These remedies give very positive results in the treatment of eyes in onanics.
As soon as excessive eye sensitivity, photophobia, eyelid cramps, dilation and immobility of the pupil appear, the doctor is advised to suspect masturbation. Prof. Furbinger considers it a completely diagnostic (defining) sign of onanism - an increased knee jerk and trembling of the eyelids.
Friedrich Hoffmann observed in a patient who often resorted to masturbation, in the 23rd year of his life, severe dizziness and dilated pupils. The same physician reports stunning cases of blindness in patients engaged in masturbation. However, a number of oculists reject this conclusion and look for the causes of blindness in another, since studies with a mirror did not give positive results.
Hearing loss as a result of onanism. Here the phenomena are not as sharp as in eye diseases, but nevertheless we find materials from a number of specialists in ear diseases that convince us that masturbation undoubtedly affects hearing.
Bonafond observed in patients sharp phenomena in the ears, such as soreness, ringing, colic, while anatomically the ear did not change at all. The same is stated by Weber Lill, who observed not only during onanism, but even during too violent copulations, especially in women, phenomena unfavorable for the ear.
If in general the patient is subject to inflammation of the middle ear, then in onaniki this disease proceeds extremely unfavorably. Symptoms associated with ear disease are detected in the soreness of the spinal column, in the region of the thoracic and nervous lumbar vertebrae. Doctors tried to resort to local treatment, but this did not give any effect, since the main causal cause of the disease, i.e., was not eliminated. masturbation.
Weber Lile argues that some women who suffer from hearing loss refuse marriage, fearing that their disease will worsen (probably depending on copulation). The most characteristic should be considered that with all ear diseases, patients do not have anatomical hearing damage, meanwhile, there is tinnitus, pain and increased auditory sensitivity.
Above, we indicated how adversely masturbation affects the central nervous system and from this, not only physically, but also spiritually, a person’s life decreases. Psychiatrists have recently received a wealth of material to observe how the mental state of people changes depending on sexual needs. Scientifically, this was clarified by Kraft-Ebing, Mol and other scientists who gave brilliant analyzes of sexual psychopathy.
Prolonged masturbation deals a heavy blow to a person's mental faculties. Cerebral neurasthenia, which is a consequence of sexual excesses, affects mainly the spiritual emotions of a person. If we follow what happens in the soul of a person during the act of onanism and after that, we will notice that the very process, which causes more and more excitement, increases the erection, spiritual and mental exaltation to the utmost pathos. At the moment of a gradual increase in sexual voluptuous experiences, the state of mind of the onanist dictates to him ecstasy, elevated words, poetic analogies, delusional phrases, and as soon as the moment of satisfaction comes, as soon as the erection falls, the pathos of a person falls along with it, his exaltation and ecstasy. At the moment of voluptuousness, blood circulation accelerates, the whole body is intensely warmed, blood rushes to the head so that the person experiencing this state seems to lose his mind, his eyes close, and sometimes it comes to convulsions, to convulsions, as a result of erotic ecstasy.
The shock of the entire nervous system entails a complete exhaustion of the brain. This indicates that such a process cannot but cause an extreme shock to the will and feelings of a person. It is not difficult to imagine what happens to a subject who indulges in this kind of manipulation for years several times a day.
To Dr. Tissot, one patient reports the following: “I have lost my power of imagination, my cheerfulness is waning every day, and all my feelings are fading away. I look at my surroundings like a dream, like visions. I extract incredible efforts from my devastated soul in order to find in myself the potential for these lines.
Above, when describing cerebral neurasthenia, I already had a chance to talk about the devastation that occurs in the brain of a person, and how this affects his memory: heaviness in the head, severe dizziness, weakening of the nervous system, loss of memory - all this accompanies the patient, which has signs of cerebral neurasthenia, and it comes to the fact that patients are forced to refuse to perform their duties. This circumstance alone, i.e. the consciousness of a person that he has turned himself off from life and duties entails dangerous mental consequences.
Such patients are helpless at the slightest difficulty, cowardly, indecisive, distracted, shy, timid, they avoid society and seek solitude. They are always in the grip of anxiety, fear and nightmares. In many patients, insomnia is added to all these phenomena, and then they are infinitely miserable. They indulge in their state of mind, lonely, gloomy and depressed.
Patients, going to bed, are tormented by thoughts all night, their conscience is wounded, self-flagellation arises - a process that torments them even more. Patients do not know sleep, become hypochondriacs, and in the course of time they develop abnormal morbid tendencies, entailing a series of phenomena indicating that cerebral neurasthenia passes into psychosis.
From this we draw the unmistakable conclusion that since young people develop melancholy, hypochondria, then the presence of onanism should be suspected here. However, the assertions that this vice entails progressive paralysis and insanity are completely untrue. Never before has madness been the result of onanism, let alone progressive paralysis. Kurshman quite correctly believes that masturbation can serve as a predisposing reason for mental illness.
There are a number of authorities, like Ellinger, Hagenbach and others, who consider masturbation to be the direct cause of mental illness. Eringer, for example, claims that masturbation in sixty-three cases gave serious symptoms of mental disorders; Fleming, Frederick and Morel are of the same opinion. Prof. Esquirol suggests that most of the mental illness observed in the aristocratic strata of society is the result of onanism. He writes the following: “Onanism is a deadly evil of people, it is the cause of madness, especially among the propertied class. Hagenbach found 69 cases of insanity (out of 800) where masturbation could be the cause; however, several of them undoubtedly entailed mental illness.
In fact, those who see masturbation as the only cause of this or that mental illness are often mistaken. Masturbation is rather a symptom of a detected psychosis and an accidental stimulus to the acceleration of the course of the disease, the predisposition of which is determined by heredity, neuropathic constitution, nervous diseases, etc. phenomena. Where onanism seems to be the causative agent of mental anomalies, in reality it only contributes to the detection of mental illness, exciting and weakening the central nervous system. The soil favorable for mental disorders is created directly by masturbation and is expressed in spinal and sexual neurosis, in relaxation, shaking, irritation of the spinal cord, attacks of neuralgia, as well as in mild disorders of the body such as hypochondria, excessive excitability, depression, disbelief in oneself, and etc. The general depression, low tone, torments of conscience, which have a detrimental effect on the central nervous system and on the whole soul of a person, are especially serious.
Speaking of various types mental illnesses that are caused by masturbation, but which in essence only masturbation accompanies, all scientists believe that masturbation is not the real cause of insanity. The phenomena they indicate, such as hallucinations of hearing, continuous deception of external senses, weakness of the will, hopelessness, are not characteristic symptoms of this disease; all these signs are observed in other types of mental illness.
The famous English psychiatrist, Dr. Skye, held the view that there is a special kind of "masturbatory madness", accompanied by a wandering look, general weakness, oppression, awkwardness, suicidal tendencies, etc.
Another doctor, the Englishman Spitske, gives a completely different picture of the phenomena of a mental order during onanism; he claims that patients develop general drowsiness, the gloom of thoughts is suddenly replaced by elation, general enlightenment; discouragement is in direct proportion to the frequency of masturbation. The disease manifests itself at the age of 13-20 years; before the age of 13, mental illness is extremely rare, and in this case we are dealing with ordinary stupidity, epilepsy and extreme excitement.
Kraft-Ebing is of the opinion that onanistic psychosis does not exist, but he argues that onanism can contribute to the manifestation of hypochondria, melancholy, hysteria and epilepsy, in other words, onanism can cause those hidden ailments that are firmly embedded in the mental body of every person.
There is even an opinion that masturbation entails idiocy, but this is not true. There was no case when onanism would be the only cause of idiocy; psychiatric science establishes the opposite phenomenon, that idiocy causes a tendency to onanism. The question of epilepsy, that functional neurosis, which is expressed in the form of seizures, remains open. As a doctor, I must confirm that the causes of epilepsy have not yet been established. Attempts that are made by doctors in explaining the origin of epilepsy are untenable, they are only moments predisposing to this disease.
Predisposition must be understood here as heredity, i.e., that any of the relatives of the sick person has ever suffered from epilepsy. This, however, is absolutely not required for the occurrence of a serious illness. If the patient is subject to predisposition, then the neuropsychic shock of the central and peripheral nervous systems contributes to the appearance of a complete picture of epilepsy.
In the old days, doctors defined copulation as temporary epilepsy, and with good reason. Tissot, Hoffmann and Galer note cases of epileptic seizures after each act of onanism. Zimmerman describes cases of epileptic seizures in a 23-year-old boy after onanistic exercises and nocturnal emissions. When the patient succeeded in mastering his impulses, the epileptic fits ceased, but resumed with even greater force, as soon as he fell into his vice again. Prof. Morel describes the same case, in which he indicates that the epileptic seizures completely disappeared from the patient and that he managed to cure the patient of onanistic inclinations. Such a favorable outcome completely restored the mental faculties of the patient, who returned to his normal activities immediately.
Often we observe epileptic seizures after the act of copulation among animals, mainly dogs. Everything that we have given here in connection with epilepsy and onanism is almost completely applicable to the definition of the connection between hysteria and onanism. Hysteria is also a predisposing symptom, but by no means can this phenomenon be taken into account as the immediate cause of the disease. Hysteria, on the other hand, is exclusively associated only with mental processes and has the same unclear etiology as epilepsy. We know cases when hysteria appears in people who are mentally very excited, regardless of whether this excitement is single or repeated for a long time. Onanistic excitations are strong mental and physical irritations that can bring the central nervous system out of its usual normal state of equilibrium. This, of course, is aggravated if the subject has a predisposition to illness. A perverted upbringing, which entails excessive mental stress, certainly sets the stage for hysteria.
Sexual processes for the development of hysteria do not pass without a trace; this statement is confirmed by countless observations in medical practice. In women, hysteria is closely associated with sexual affects that occur after nymphomania and other sexual excesses, and after onanism, hysterical seizures are observed in women. Tissot and Foder give many authoritative facts in support of this opinion; thus, it is safe to assume that masturbation is a factor that reveals hysteria, but does not generate it.
Furbinger proves quite rightly that insanity is not a direct consequence of onanism or excessive sexual excesses. He categorically does not allow that sexual neurasthenia could result in a severe form of psychopathy. In contrast to this opinion, such solid authorities as Griesinger and Ellinger prove that masturbation is a serious cause of insanity.
Our conclusion boils down to the unanimous diagnosis of eminent scientists and observers that masturbation causes great harm to mental abilities, reason, weakening memory in the first case, and hindering the development of thinking in the second. Masturbation can also cause mild psychosis (malancholia, hysteria, mysticism), but always in the presence of heredity. Onanism never leads to severe psychoses and cannot cause either insanity, or suicide, or progressive paralysis.
In the statistics of psychiatric hospitals, we find the following figures for onanics: in Sweden, the mentally ill turned out to be 3.7%, in England - 1.1%.
Short-term onanism, which inevitably arises as a transitional form to sexual intercourse in almost all people, does not affect mental abilities in any way. The longer and longer masturbation lasts, the more dangerous it is for a person and his intellectual activity.
Just as psychosexual perversions can cause masturbation, masturbation is a predisposing cause of the mentioned sexual psychoses. It is physiologically difficult to establish boundaries between normal and excessive. We pointed out even higher that this depends on the subjective, individual characteristics of a person. By nymphomania and satyriasis, we define the acute sexual state of a man or woman, in which the most indifferent ideas entail voluptuous sensations, and this sexual lust is so strong that the patient tries at all costs to be satisfied.In their sexual excitement, patients reach hallucinations, insanity, and can often be dangerous to public morals.Nymphomaniacs and satyriasis are not difficult to recognize, since they lose their self-control so much that they do not try to clothe their pernicious passion They are seized with a wave of their dirty desires and lose all concept of shame, there are times when they indulge in their vice even in the presence of strangers.
Deslyand explains all these anomalies by a false upbringing. He knew a child-girl who could not be weaned from onanism either by requests, or exhortations, or threats, or even corporal punishment; she indulged in this vice shamelessly in front of everyone, even at the dinner table, at the sight Afterwards, marriage did not save this woman from vice, and she continued to masturbate until her death.
The root of sexual vices hidden in the body awakens in a person onanistic inclinations, later on - perversions, and over time leads to sexual psychosis. As a curiosity, I will talk about a case of kleptomania as a consequence of onanism. Dr. Zippe in 1878 had the case of a 32-year-old patient, a baker by profession, who had masturbated for 19 years. When he saw a beautiful woman, he became so excited that his self-control left him; the heart began to beat strongly, the penis came into tension and in order to satisfy his passion, he had to touch some object of the toilet of this woman, and he stole her handkerchief or something else, and after that satisfaction came . Mental delusion can lead to mutilation of the genitals, which is certainly a consequence of onanism.
We know many cases, disgusting in their savagery, which evoke feelings of disgust in us.
Chopard describes a case when a 15-year-old youth reached such perfection in vice that indulging in onanism eight times a day, he did not extract the seed. Subsequently, he began to irritate the urethra with various objects, but when this also ceased to work, he began to incise his penis with a knife, and the voluptuous feeling paralyzed the pain so much that at that time he was satisfied.
Very often we meet with the facts of damage to the urethra, the mucous membrane of the bladder, the uterine cervix and even the uterus itself. These mutilations of the genital organs give the patients a pure voluptuousness and in the end force them to turn to surgeons.
If these operations are performed without anesthesia, they are very painful and for a certain time wean the patient from this vice.
The harmful effect of onanism on the digestive organs is manifested exclusively through sexual neurasthenia. These phenomena, of course, are not as frequent as damage to the nervous system. In neurasthenics engaged in masturbation, digestion is difficult due to the so-called nervous dyspepsia, which is expressed in pain in the stomach immediately after eating, as well as in belching, vomiting, especially after mental unrest. These phenomena are accompanied by loss of appetite, ejaculation and an unpleasant taste in the mouth. Less commonly, masturbators develop nervous gastric diseases, complicated by vomiting, perstaltic bowel movement, constipation and bloating.
A thorough study of patients showed that gastric diseases occur as a result of an excited mental state, as well as under the influence of onanistic seizures. The central nervous system controls all abnormal phenomena that cause pain in the stomach, and, as it turns out, this phenomenon is not of a nervous order, but has all the symptoms of a disease of the gastric nerves. In such patients, a headache, heaviness in the head, a violation in the field of sexual administration and an unbalanced state of mind are noticed.
The general condition of the patient depends mainly on the mood, and the mood of the spirit changes depending on the gastrointestinal phenomena. In some patients, stomach pains come on immediately after taking digestible food, even in small quantities, such as from a few spoons of soup, from two or three sips of broth; in other cases, the masturbator easily digests a large meal of hard-to-digest dishes. It is impossible to make an accurate diagnosis that could determine the origin of gastrointestinal diseases. It depends mainly on how the patient's stomach is generally adapted to the digestion of coarse food. Most often, we notice complications in the stomach in patients of the prosperous class, who are accustomed to pampered food, all sorts of delicacies, such as caviar, salmon, sardines, etc., as well as to alcoholic beverages, cognac, etc. Nervous diseases of the stomach are also joined by catarrh of the stomach. In young men of both sexes, at a time when the body needs an influx of nutrients and the need for food is increased, masturbation causes increased appetite.
At first, it seems that the body intensively replenishes the departed energy, due to the long process of onanism, by demanding large doses of food. Over time, with prolonged masturbation, a completely different picture emerges: patients experience thinness, pallor, and all those nutritional disorders that lead to nervous cachexia are noticed. All this is accompanied by a breakdown, weakness, swelling of the intestines, vomiting, constipation and diarrhea. Women are especially predisposed to this. I have observed in patients diarrhea of an undeniably onanistic origin; one 20-year-old patient had attacks of diarrhea as soon as she got into bed and warmed her genitals. 5-6 times during the night she had these urges, and according to the diagnosis of doctors, and my personal observation, this woman suffered from sexual neurasthenia.
It was possible to establish that diarrhea followed shortly after the death of her husband and, as it turned out later, from onanistic manipulations, to which this widow often resorted. I advised the patient to get married as soon as possible, and when she soon carried out her intention, she was completely freed from all stomach pains. Here are the facts that convince us of the influence of sexual neurasthenia on the digestive processes. Prof. Preyer cites a number of cases of gastric diseases that have arisen in connection with a disorder of the sexual sphere. Hoffmann talks about a man who had diarrhea after an act of onanism, and Fournier comments on another case of a young man with severe abdominal colic and diarrhea caused by onanica, and when the patient was given dietary food (a small amount of red wine, meat food, etc.) All these symptoms immediately disappeared. In general, indigestion in masturbators is not so rare. It must be admitted, however, that Fournier somewhat exaggerates these phenomena. According to the general conclusion of doctors, sexual neurasthenia, which arose on the basis of onanism, entails disturbances in mental and spiritual activity and, in very rare cases, indigestion.
Not only doctors, but also most people know about the existence of a connection between the respiratory organs (throat) and sexual functions. It is known, for example, how in the period of manhood the voice of young men changes, which then goes down, then rises, acquiring a shade of hoarseness or sonority. There are also cases when in ancient times they resorted to castration of singers, in order to preserve the voice, mainly in boys. In Italy, back in the 20th century, the testicles of boys were cut out when they entered the Italian church choir. Medicine knows cases when women undergoing a castration operation changed their voice, which acquired a masculine shade, more coarse, while in adult men this operation caused just the opposite phenomenon. The effect of masturbation on the lungs is insignificant, and if there are still reverse cases in medicine, then this refers to the period when masturbation has not yet been sufficiently studied by researchers.
Plyaters describes a case when a man who remarried, during intercourse with his wife and during ordinary sexual arousal, had asthma attacks. This subject died during violent copulation. Plyaters does not say anything about the true cause of the patient's death, that is, about a disease of the lungs or heart.
However, it must be said that the latest authors - modern researchers - are of the same opinion that masturbation has an extremely unfavorable effect on the lungs. Fournier, for example, testifies that onanists, for the most part, suffer from underdevelopment of the chest, difficulty breathing, lung damage and chronic catarrh. Fournier considers this fact so convincing that it does not need to be supported by other observations.
Even Riebing, this "innovator" in the field of investigating the causality of onanism, reports that diseases of the heart and lungs are undoubtedly the consequences of onanism.
Peyer cites a number of cases of asthmatic patients due to sexual excesses, i.e. there is a so-called sexual asthma. I admit that the process was aggravated by the phenomena of sexual neurasthenia, the bronchial state of the respiratory tract, and more often by asthmatic processes.
If we are talking about the direct and immediate effect of onanism on the respiratory tract, then I must point out that there is no direct effect of onanism on the respiratory and circulatory organs.
Onanism has a more detrimental effect on the circulatory organs. This time, sexual neurasthenia takes precedence. To be convinced of the influence of onanism on the activity of the heart, it is enough to follow the phenomena that arise during copulation. Excitation multiplies the number of heartbeats, breathing spirals, the face is filled with blood. This creates an excessive acceleration of blood circulation and brings the subject to the extreme limit of tension. Here is the question whether excessive onanism in the presence of a predisposition, such as arteriosclerosis and other causes, can lead to apoplexy or the occurrence of an aneurysm. In science we find cases when the excessive excitement of one man with a young girl led to death, due to an insignificant aortic aneurysm. Palpitations, attacks of pain in the chest region, increased cardiac activity, paroxysmal increased heart rate - can certainly develop in the form of heart neuroses in masturbators.
The fact that such phenomena on the part of the heart are still dependent on a strong nervous influence convinces us that onanists suffering from cardiac neurosis are also subject to other nervous diseases. The latter conclusion gives us an undoubted right to suspect sexual neurasthenia in the patient.
Following this, the question arises about the possibility of the influence of onanism on the muscular system, i.e. about the possible consequences of onanism, such as complete paralysis and even partial paralysis. We must here, with regard to the influence of onanism on the muscular system, completely repeat what we have said about the relationship between onanism and the respiratory organs, i.e., that influence is exaggerated. In 1857, the famous French scientist Bourbon chose this issue as the topic of his dissertation. A number of his conclusions and observations boiled down to the fact that small rushes of blood should have an undoubted effect on the brain and, mainly, the spinal cord.
These phenomena give rise to partial shocks, which, in turn, lead to paraplegia.
I consider this incredible, since I do not know, either in my practice or in the practice of other scientists, cases of paralysis in a patient, contractures and other "shock" consequences from onanism.
In my opinion, onanism weakens the muscular system, which is why after each act of masturbation, along with a decrease in mental activity and slight physical fatigue, there is a weakening of the gait, fatigue, and sometimes pain in the limbs. Patients often complain of a feeling of heaviness in all members. I consider this kind of phenomenon to be symptomatic for diagnosticians as well, but as a doctor I cannot admit the dependence of paralysis on masturbation.
I have to divide this part into two groups:
1. Organic lesions and -
2. Lesions are functional.
Organic lesions are less important than the latter. According to the observations of doctors, from frequent masturbation, as well as from frequent perverted copulations, the genitals in men and women increase, especially in the former, when the size and size of the penis reaches extraordinary sizes. In boys and adult men, the penis and scrotum simultaneously increase, and in girls and women, large and small shameful lips and, mainly, the clitoris. This also occurs due to constriction from frequent flushes of blood. We find materials in studies on masturbation in which we can deduct that in prostitutes the clitoris reached a length of 6-8 centimeters, at which it swells strongly, turns purple-red, folds form near it and appearance it resembles the shape of the male penis. In medicine, we know cases when such phenomena gave us reason to consider such women as hermaphrodites. Their shameful lips lengthened, signs of edema appeared, they sagged and thickened. The external opening in these cases opens, and the expansion of the canal extends almost to the neck of the bladder.
If it can be argued that masturbators, as a result of their pernicious passion, enlarged the genitals, then it cannot be concluded from this that masturbation is the cause here. In the vast majority of cases, the genitals of onanists are no different from the genitals of all people.
Eczema, rashes appear on the genitals, arising from rubbing and scratching them. These are, however, rare phenomena and they appear mainly in girls and women. In practice, I usually did not have to observe this. Masturbation, performed by hand or in other ways, entails other consequences than friction of the thighs, the introduction of foreign bodies into the genital slit, etc. Tardieu points out that some girls inserted various objects into their vaginas and developed the elasticity of the genital organs to such an extent that in later they succeeded without violating the hymen. With onanism, by rubbing the thighs, the foreskin develops less in relation to the size of the clitoris than when masturbating with a hand, and the clitoris does not lengthen as much, a characteristic feature is its elasticity and elongation, in the form of a pestle.
The influence of masturbation on the internal female organs, especially on the cervix and its appendages, is also small. Most girls and adult girls are not so often prone to diseases of the genital organs, despite frequent masturbation. Experiments show that diseases of the genital parts in women arise mainly after marriage, and most often diseases occur as a result of gonorrhea in their husbands. However, it should be remembered that since there is some kind of anomaly in the uterus itself, then masturbation, which sharply increases sexual activity and irritates the genitals, has an extremely unfavorable effect on the general sexual sphere.
Masturbation certainly affects the early development of sexual functions, that is. early maturation of sexual desire, and in connection with this causes premature erections and ejaculation. That's all I can say about the organic violation of the genital organs in masturbation.
Functional damage to the genital organs and urinary tract, no doubt, entirely dependent on sexual neurasthenia. I divide them into two groups:
a) on neuroses of genitourinary origin and - on
b) functional disorders.
a) neuroses.
First of all, in case of urinary diseases, the bladder is affected, i.e. there are nerve pains in the bladder.
The disease consists of suffering that appears in the area of the pubic bone, occurring during or after urination. In addition, neurosis entails an increased urge to urinate, and at the same time urine comes out in drops, and in color and composition it is completely normal. This can be explained by the abnormal innervation of the muscles that block the bladder. Etoile reports cases of the appearance of bloody oochi after onanism and even its retention.
The consequences are even more terrible when the so-called "urinary incontinence" appears in patients. This disease can last from the earliest years up to the age of 30, and it occurs mainly in girls, as a result of onanism. I observed a 12-year-old patient, who urinated under herself every night. Her appearance, physique, melancholic appearance, and other signs led me to the idea that the girl indulged in masturbation. From the inquiries of others, I learned that my suspicions were quite reasonable, since the father overtook the girl during masturbation. Through long-term treatments, I managed to achieve very real results.
Sexual neuroses are often expressed in neuralgia of the testicles of the surrounding parts, and least of all - of the urinary tract. Among my patients, I knew one student who suffered from severe neuralgic pains in the region of the testicles, which soon spread to the spermatic cord and caused attacks of sexual neurasthenia as a result. I resorted to treatment with faradic current, and this gave favorable results. In other patients, I have observed increased sensitivity of the head of the penis. The least of all I have noticed in patients is the so-called "dance of the testicles", which occurs due to muscle twitching.
b) Functional disorders.
This phenomenon occurs in both men and women, moreover, in men it causes semen and impotence, and in women - infertility.
White sputum is undoubtedly the result of prolonged onanism. It is known that in young people leading a normal lifestyle (abstinence), wet dreams appear in a dream that occur without the participation of the will of a person. Pollutions are physiological and painful, but it is impossible to establish a boundary between them.
Pollutions arising in the state of wakefulness should be attributed to pollutions of painful phenomena, i.e. to periodic, too frequent eruptions of the seed during erection of the penis and voluptuous sexual sensations.
Semyonation, i.e. the outpouring of semen, which, in contrast to wet dreams, does not entail an erection, and is also free from voluptuousness, occurs mainly during urination and stool.
It can be said with full confidence that frequent wet dreams prevail over spermatorrhea. This is explained by the fact that the public considers wet dreams to be a safe phenomenon and is afraid of the ejaculation that occurs during bowel movements.
Increased walking, excessive tension, even touching the genitals can serve as an impetus for the appearance of sperm, which is reminiscent of the beginning of sexual excesses and onanism. Sperm is a cloudy gelatinous liquid with a specific odor and, if viewed under a microscope, it consists of billions of spermatozoa. With the progressive development of the disease, especially when wet dreams appear due to onanism, the semen becomes watery, more transparent, thinner, and the number of spermatozoa in it decreases. I must say that not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively they change.
The disease here referred to is the result of the patient's neurasthenic tendencies, and is chiefly found in people of the prosperous class, who do not overburden their mental functions with work and are able to indulge uncontrollably in sexual pleasures. It is this social position that multiplies the number of masturbators; it is quite natural that we find this disease predominantly in men of mature age, especially in the 20th year of life.
Sexual impotence (impotence) in men indicates onanism; by impotence we mean the inability to perform the act of copulation with the opposite sex, i.e. complete weakening of sexual activity during intercourse. Impotence is different in form: nervous and mental.
Nervous impotence is the most common form among patients. This impotence, since it is associated with sexual neurasthenia, is temporary, just like weakness, insomnia, palpitations. This typical picture of field neurasthenia is extremely varied and extremely variable. The only question left unexplained is why, with sexual neurasthenia, some have only seminal flow, others have nervous impotence, and others have both.
There is an opinion that onanism subsequently gives only seminal flow and that sexual impotence is caused by sexual excesses. Practitioners have observed that both of these vices result in joint symptoms, seminal bleeding and impotence, and sometimes (but this is less common) one of these phenomena. Onanism, along with sexual excesses, gives the same picture of seminiferous or impotence, which we observe in systematic (interrupted) copulations.
In patients, this disease appears in the following order: first sedation, and then - impotence. Furbinger reports that, according to his observations, about 30% of patients suffering from nervous impotence owe their illness exclusively to onanism.
So, we give a description of these diseases according to the following statistics:
1. Absolute impotence,
2. Relative and -
3. Temporary.
Absolute impotence is characterized by a complete inability to have sexual intercourse with a woman, despite the conditions conducive to this.
Relative impotence occurs when the ability to copulate is lost under the influence of the mood of the spirit and environmental conditions.
Temporary impotence cannot be characterized by any well-established symptoms, it appears rarely, for a short time and is soon replaced by full sexual energy.
The father of a large family - my patient - 40 years old, suffered from dyspepsia and cardiac neurosis. He complained to me that for 8-14 days he was not able to copulate with his wife, and he acquired this disease due to interrupted copulation, which he resorted to quite often in his married life. The first two phenomena (absolute and relative impotence) are the mildest forms of the disease, and they are accompanied by the disappearance of erection in men, without which the act of copulation is unthinkable. Very often, just before the introduction of a penis into the female sexual sphere, a sudden lethargy of the penis occurs, but there are cases when this lethargy occurs after its introduction.
Nervous impotence is accompanied mainly by the eruption of the seed, which occurs at the very beginning or even before the beginning of the act. Kraft-Ebing believes that an early form of impotence appears in persons who suffer from sexual neurasthenia. At this point, I draw the special attention of practicing doctors. - They have every reason to believe that if a patient has an early eruption of the seed, then there is sexual neurasthenia, which will either lead to impotence, or rewarded the patient with impotence.
Nervous impotence is the result of early ejaculation. This kind of form of impotence is the most common. Furbinger considers these sufferings to be very severe, approaching the forms of daytime emissions. I disagree with him in this view, because practice has shown me that there is a significant difference between them: daytime emissions, accompanied by only a slight sexual arousal and an attempt to copulate, accompanied by a slight erection and early ejaculation, but at the same time it gives everything effects that take place during copulation.
Nervous impotence also occurs as a result of a violation of a man's ability to erections - the most frequent form and, in practical terms, important. The penis cannot come into a state of great tension, and if he succeeds, then only for a few seconds. This phenomenon indicates that a person suffers from a decline in energy, a decrease in mental activity and relevance in all life issues. On the contrary, energetic people, possessed by a large will with sufficiently developed mental faculties, are prone to quick erections for a rather long period; with old age, all sexual functions die out: sexual lust, orgasmus and eruption of the seed. There is a picture similar to the above form of impotence. Nervous impotence causes in most patients local disorders of the genital area: either increased sensitivity of the head of the penis, or loss of its sensitivity.
Mental impotence is less often a consequence of masturbation, more often it is observed with "interrupted copulation", which has been practiced by patients for years.
Mental impotence often occurs in newlyweds and newlyweds, especially in the first time after the wedding. Patients at the same time are terribly depressed, oppressed, as their honeymoon is disturbed. I will allow myself to cite the mental state of an impotent described by Reti. "Two mutually loving people got married. The wife, possessing great beauty, grace, tenderness, in love to the point of self-forgetfulness, was ready to give herself to her beloved husband with fullness characteristic only of women, but at the decisive moment, despite the most ardent lustful urges, to his horror, he was deprived of the opportunity to cause an erection. The woman is amazed, depressed by the unexpected impotence of her beloved, and the latter, like a serious sinner, is humiliated and disgraced ... Every movement of his wife seems to him contempt, boundless mockery, and if she is so chaste that she does not understand the meaning of impotence, then the husband nevertheless experiencing a terrible feeling of depression and emptiness."
Suffering, internal division, fear of the future make a person an insignificant creature, this is aggravated by the fact that such phenomena were not observed before marriage. In most cases, such patients are young people in love who, during the time of their marriage, are obsessed with a certainty, bordering on psychosis, that they will not succeed in possessing a future wife.
How can this be explained? There is one mental explanation: lack of confidence in one's sexual power.
A tense idea of future lust entails such a sharp increase in sexual excitability that the normal course of the reflex process changes, and just before the act of copulation, sexual tension falls. Most of the first-time copulators, if they have previously engaged in masturbation, go to the marriage bed with a sense of horror and uncertainty about the positiveness of the act. Here we observe all the symptoms of psychic impotence.
If mental impotence develops after marriage, then there are signs of previous onanism and "interrupted copulation" practiced for years. Young people are sometimes haunted by the obsessive thought that they will never cope with the necessary act, and this uncertainty entails phenomena of a purely nervous nature, bordering almost on auto-suggestion, they actually do not succeed in capturing a woman.
The weakening of sexual activity is revealed especially when the "early masturbator" begins to gradually refrain from his vice in order to prepare himself for normal sexual intercourse. Here we observe the premature eruption of the seed. These phenomena, however, disappear quite quickly and without a trace, if only one who masturbates with sufficient willpower and determination leaves his vice.
Relative or temporary impotence in no way excludes the ability to reproduce offspring. Furbinger believes that mental or nervous impotence does not interfere with fertilization. The assertion that fertilization is impossible without sexual power is absolutely wrong; in fact, the essence of the prolongation of the human race is not hidden in arousal, but in the release of healthy fertilizing sperm, i.e., in a condition feasible by the percentage of people suffering from temporary impotence as a consequence of masturbation.
Since ancient times, diseases of the genital area in men, in the form of ejaculation or impotence, are explained as the consequences of onanism. Until now, it has not occurred to anyone that similar phenomena are observed in women. If we can argue about functional disorders of the female sexual areas that occur in exactly the same way as in men, then in women it is still necessary to distinguish between two types of sexual disorder, namely: 1) vaginismus, 2) infertility, both phenomena are the consequences of onanism. a consequence of onanism, we have already indicated in previous chapters, it is only important to establish here that onanism is a consequence of vaginismus, which is expressed in a greatly increased sensitivity of the hymen, with which the entrance to the vagina is so acute that copulation becomes unthinkable.This phenomenon gives rise to the suspicion of a predisposition hysterical women to sexual neurasthenia.Excessive sensitivity of the nerves of the genital area corresponds to the muscles that They also contract convulsively, at the most superficial touch to the genitals. Often these sensations are caused by a man with an inept approach to the act of copulation, ignorance of the anatomical devices of the female genital organs.
Prof. Kish reports such a case: a young woman suffering from vaginismus experienced such pain when a male organ touched her that she could not allow her husband to copulate. This led to further divorce. More than a year later, this lady came to me as a patient, remarried, who turned out to have a complete relapse of the experienced anomaly. Kish found clear signs of vaginismus in her, a disease that arose under the influence of prolonged masturbation even before marriage.
In my practice, there were other cases of vaginismus; I was able to cure these phenomena by abstaining from masturbation.
Infertility, as a consequence of onanism, is a highly controversial issue. In any case, if the influence of onanism can affect infertility in women, then this influence is not direct, i.e. in other words, masturbation may contribute to infertility, but it is not the direct cause of it. Aran used one patient in whom, as a result of onanism, the uterus and its appendages were poorly developed, and Cambel, on the basis of his practice, reports the case of the absolute cessation of menstruation in a young woman who indulged in masturbation.
Insufficient development of the sexual parts can, due to the abuse of onanism, be attributed to mutually dependent forms, but one should not conclude that onanism leads directly to infertility. After all, we know cases when the development of the genital organs suffers from the rudiments of infertility, that is, predisposition, and if, under these conditions, the state of the sexual sphere is aggravated by masturbation, then, of course, infertility can come faster.
The connection between onanism and cohabitation exists and is expressed in the following: the act of copulation in normal and healthy people should not cause either a breakdown or a depressed mood, this, of course, does not apply to nervous people, in whom these two phenomena, plus fatigue, arise directly after sexual intercourse. And in this case, one can unmistakably suspect sexual neurasthenia. We observe the same thing in persons subjected to seeding as a result of masturbation, and we see exactly the same picture when copulating with old masturbators. Mental weakness, general fatigue occurs in them immediately after sexual intercourse.
If we have concluded that masturbation affects individual organs of our body, if the consequences of masturbation affect the individual both mentally and physically, then we will unmistakably conclude that masturbation has a general effect on the entire human body. And here we are not talking about a breakdown or malnutrition, but about general depression, fatigue and complete disorganization of the organic state of a person, depending on the duration of this person's occupation with masturbation.
Personally, I am sure that the majority of young men, pale and thin, owe the state of their body to their debilitating vice. If any of the doctors does not share my point of view, then I attribute this to the insufficient study of onanism in the medical literature in general. In this case, I apply the method not so much medical as psychological: if the patient suffers from consumption, anemia, diabetes, kidney disease, general decline in strength, and, moreover, masturbates, then this defect contributes to an even more significant decrease in strength and disruption of the state of the body. I knew people with a very strong physique, in which masturbation undermined their general state of health, and if they point out to me that there are cases when masturbation did not affect the human body in any way, then I will attribute this to exceptional and unlikely cases.
Traces of onanism on human health remain in the form of a nervous disorder of the digestive organs, or other phenomena that entail complete decadence and strength and mood. One way or another, the consequences of onanism are felt, and no criticism of this view will convince me otherwise.
At the same time, there is a gait disorder, limited mobility, running and weakening of the muscular system. If, when observing young men with pale faces, suffering from apathy and fatigue, we cannot recognize the true cause of their condition, then, without any doubt, the cause lies in sexual excesses, regardless of whether it was natural copulation or onanism.
Onaniki also often suffer from insomnia, and if they manage to fall asleep for a while, then their sleep is sensitive, anxious, restless. All these phenomena drive them to the doctor, but they leave him for the most part disappointed. The doctor determines the disease of the stomach, nervousness, anemia, and often he does not recognize the true cause of the disease, while the patient hides: a sense of shame, awkwardness take possession of him. Complete mental discord, dissatisfaction begins, and the patient falls into despair. I am writing these lines so that the doctor in all the cases I have indicated will look for the main cause of the disease. The phenomena I have listed are so symptomatic that an unmistakable diagnosis can bring salvation to the patient.
I would like to finish this chapter with a few words about the consequences of onanism.
Let us assume the case when a person engaged in masturbation is endowed with excellent physical health, full mental flowering and does not suffer from his vice in any way, moreover, he enjoys absolutely hygienic living conditions. Nevertheless, I have no reason to believe that serious consequences will not arise from onanism under the indicated conditions. Undoubtedly, there will be a process of gradual weakening, both physical and moral, the degree of resistance to the will will decrease, and the patient will become a slave to his vice.
I think that we will be close to the truth if we point out that humanity usually begins its sexual activity with onanism, and if this vice, which began from a young age, did not stop in time, then it entails a chronic, I would say, epidemic continuation of masturbation. Here I turn to the characterization of the following stages of the consequences of the disease:
1. The stage of the physical and mental immoral state of the patient.
2. Stage of nervous diseases and -
3. Stage of offensive psychoses.
It should only be clear to the reader that I am not establishing here the stages that are obligatory for each onanist, I am only pointing out the progress of the disease and the consequences that may arise in patients with the unceasing development of the defect.
In the first stage, i.e. in the physical and mental immoral state of the patient, we notice a dull look, lifeless eyes, apathy, fatigue, pallor of the face, anemia. Under sunken eyes - blue circles. Movements are lethargic, apathetic, in a word, a person changes dramatically in appearance, which takes on the appearance of an "older person". To this physical lowness, mental faculties are also added: mental abilities are dulled, memory weakens, absent-mindedness appears, and faith in oneself is lost. irritability, solitude, a purely feeling of loneliness - all this completely destroys the personality, plunging a person into horror.Requires proper education in order to return the patient to a normal state, arousing in him those vital forces that provide support and faith in his future.
At this time, it is necessary to stop the disease in the most decisive way, until the entire central nervous system of the patient is affected.
When an internal disease appears in an onanist, a disease of the central nervous system, then we have here the second stage of the disease.
This second stage leads first of all to a weakening of the muscles, and it is not difficult to imagine the state of a person in whom, in addition to the general disorder of the whole organism and oppression of the spirit, there is also disorder of the muscles. Dizziness appears, light phenomena appear before the eyes, the entire nervous system is tense, the abdominal organs are subject to changes and contractions incomprehensible to the patient. The heart works intermittently, the pulse quickens, breathing is difficult (although no pathological phenomena are observed in the circulatory organs and respiratory tract). If the patient experiences a period of growth, then the process of chlorosis occurs simultaneously. Appetite disappears, and the patient, regardless of the degree of his intelligence and development, turns into a stupid, little thinking person.
If we add to this the painful loss of semen, vaginismus in a woman and sexual impotence in men, then it will not be difficult to imagine the patient and his state of mind. The first period of the disease does not violate the almost normal functions of the genital area; however, in the second period, the patient has a difficult process: the erection slows down and the patient has to resort to the help of fantasy in order to achieve sexual arousal. In these people, after sexual arousal and the onset of an erection, ejaculation immediately appears. Gradually, this leads to the fact that even in the absence of an erection, ejaculation appears in persons of the second stage, which becomes all the more painful and painful, since it mostly appears in society, in the presence of many people and comes so quickly that the patient does not have time to bow and retire.
Involuntary ejaculation, which usually occurs only at night, has a destructive effect on the psyche and physical condition of a person. This functional disorder leads to neuralgia in the genital area, thighs and lumbar vertebrae. The picture is complemented by damage to the urinary tract, incontinence or retention of urine, pain and pain during urination.
The physical development of the disease in females entails anemia, pale infirmity and a general breakdown. Diseases of the ovaries in young girls also occur to some extent due to frequent masturbation. To be more convincing that this is so, I will point out the case when, after marriage, these pains completely ceased in many girls.
Mental development is expressed in them in the weakening of memory, stupidity, forgetfulness, increased susceptibility, which easily excites fantasy, and so on. Here are two stages that appear in patients in extremely diverse ways. During this second period, there are cases of a sudden cessation of onanism, which is difficult to explain from a medical point of view: is this the result of internal work on oneself or a consequence of any other reasons or, finally, that the patient’s physical and mental state does not give him opportunity to continue masturbation.
The third stage - the stage of offensive psychoses - is expressed in the weakening of all mental abilities that suppress the brain activity of a person and deprive him of self-control. In these cases, patients develop mild psychoses: the noblest inclinations disappear, pangs of conscience arise, the process of spiritual oppression continues, and if, in addition, the patient is possessed by a nervous predisposition, then he comes to the deepest inner tragedy.
Lowering the moral qualities of a person, i.e. his moral principles and the violation of character are the undoubted consequences of onanism; first of all, it is necessary to develop in a person the concept of good and evil, of sincerity and truth. In a word, it is necessary to raise the moral state of a person to such a height that would allow him to look at his vice as an immoral act, the mind must raise its voice and force a person to work on himself.
Under other conditions, the masturbator becomes spineless, his actions are completely arbitrary, he is not responsible for his actions, he shows stupidity, and all his topics revolve exclusively around questions of sex.
Masturbation cannot help but affect the family and even all of humanity. In our social system, when a person lives not only his personal life, his inclinations towards good or bad habits cannot but influence the environment. However, I believe that the question of the immediate danger to the family is somewhat exaggerated. Indirect dangers to others should also fade into the background. The well-known researcher Peter Frank testifies that onanists burden all mankind with their existence, that they cannot give anything to either society or the environment in which they move, and therefore, in some cases, they should even be feared. Frank built his conclusions in such a way that he wanted to involve the state in the fight against this evil. I believe that he exaggerated too much the importance of masturbators for the environment and I think that logically I will open my thought correctly: for if we assume that masturbators are so dangerous for the family and others, then with the observations that we have, we must consider that one subject is dangerous for another, and that we are gradually in the sphere of mutual dangerous clashes of people and passions. The position defended by Frank is not humane, and I would say anti-social, since, on the one hand, it can lead to the complete contempt of onanists who would have to be looked at as lepers. Tissot testifies that onanists lose the concept of natural pleasures during intercourse (he observed this phenomenon more often among women). According to Rousseau, the natural pleasures of love cause complete indifference among onanists, and they prefer to the very bed of marriage to indulge in this korok, rather than live the normal act of copulation.
Consequently, Tissot came to the conclusion that masturbation keeps many in the position of perpetual bachelors. This opinion is supported by Prof. Alibert, who reports a case of such a great predilection in a patient for onanism, that natural intercourse disgusted him, and women never aroused this man.
I personally attribute this phenomenon rather to perversions of the sexual state and, perhaps, to the attraction of the sexes of the same name, but I can in no way agree with the conclusions of Tissot and Alibert.
In addition, I doubt that masturbation could give the same experience as natural copulation, because the instant gratification that immediately occurs with masturbation cannot be compared with the act of pleasure that a person receives from normal copulation. The duration of the process of onanism, i.e. moment of onset of ejaculation, I strongly deny. Only in people with great will, who know how to regulate the process of ejaculation, I allow in extremely rare cases a long process of manipulation without an immediate onset of ejaculation. I apply this to people who have mental abilities, i.e. reason prevails over everything else, and these subjects should be rewarded with great talent and good imagination. Nature indicates the absolutely correct paths that humanity should follow in sexual relations, while masturbation is an unnatural act and harms society by the very fact that it undermines the physical and mental functions of a person as a member of society and family Our youth would certainly be stronger, more spiritual and stronger if they were delivered from this vice.
From this point of view, masturbation even poses a danger, and I understand why Burdak claims that masturbation is a "crime of the human race", and in the opinion of another scientist, "neither war, nor smallpox, nor plague, nor other disasters can give humanity such unfortunate consequences, like onanism, which is a devastating fact for mankind. The epidemic nature of such a phenomenon is threatening for mankind. So does Paris.
Roleder G. Masturbation
General
This goal is designed to reinforce moral behavior, which is the basis for all the best qualities. Thanks to the sublimation of sexual energy, a creative and spiritual revelation of the personality takes place, family life acquires a deeper relationship and becomes a great source of energy for both partners.
The goal is open to those who have a similar desire. It is not an imposition of any religious beliefs, it is an experiment in its purest form, requiring attentiveness and awareness of one's personality.
“We have got new guy named Cassius Clay. If you bet on him every time he fights, you will become a rich man because he will never lose a fight. I think his secret is abstinence, controlling sexual desires. He has it. Every guy who can control his passion can win a title. I believe in it.
(Olympic boxing coach, Harry Wiley. Quote from the book "Mohammad Ali, the Greatest")
Mike Tyson Legendary boxer
“I never suspected that conquering the hearts of many women takes away from you much more than it gives. But I often read that great fighters never had sex before a fight, and I was young and wanted to be the youngest world heavyweight champion, so I abstained from sex for about five years.
Dalai Lama Spiritual leader, Leader of Tibet
“Sexual pressure, sexual desire, in fact, I think, can only be satisfied for a short time, and often leads only to b about more complexities"
“It's natural for people, and sexual desire comes, ... but then you use the human mind to understand that such relationships (based on sexual desire) are always full of problems.
Lev Tolstoy Russian writer
“I have become what is called a fornicator. And to be a fornicator is a physical state similar to that of a morphine addict, a drunkard, a smoker. Just as a morphine addict, a drunkard, a smoker is no longer a normal person, so a person who has known several women for his pleasure is no longer normal, but a forever spoiled person - a fornicator.
“I did not notice then that periods of anger arose in me quite regularly and evenly, corresponding to periods of what we called love. The period of love is the period of malice; an energetic period of love is a long period of anger, a weaker manifestation of love is a short period of anger. Then we did not understand that this love and anger were the same animal feeling, only from different ends.
From the book "Kreutzer Sonata"
Saigo Takamori One of the most influential samurai in Japanese history, known as the "Last True Samurai"
“Although Saigoµ was married twice, had five children, and associated with a geisha from Kyoto, in 1854 he prided himself on completely shunning the company of women. He viewed abstinence more as an empowerment rather than a limitation... In his youth, Saigoµ saw sex not as a pleasure or joy of intimacy, but as an obstacle to happiness and fidelity"
From the book "The Last Samurai"
Cane West, rapper
“People often ask me where I get my energy from. I think it comes from the same sources as my sex addiction at a young age. Look at the drive that people have when it comes to sex - dress appropriately, get a haircut and hang out at the club in the cold at three in the morning or wherever they go to find a girl. If you can channel that energy into something of value, work…”
Pythagoras Philosopher Mathematician
“According to Pythagoras (6th century BC), sex should be done in winter, not in summer. Pythagoras believed that for men's health in general, sex is harmful, since the loss of the seed is dangerous, uncontrollable and exhausting physically and spiritually.
“Pythagoras himself founded a small community in which a premium was placed for study, vegetarianism, and sexual restraint or abstinence. Later philosophers believed that celibacy contributed to the development of detachment and balance, which the vocation of the philosopher requires ... "
Georg Hackenschmidt, 20th century strongman, wrestler and philosopher
"Moderation in sexual relations is very important. Sexual abstinence must be strictly observed in the early period of maturation and development. Whoever observes this recommendation will soon reap the benefits of the enormous benefits of chastity. A few years ago, a colleague of mine told me: "Nonsense, this is human nature". However, this "intelligent" man has only achieved a minor position as a strongman, and now in his thirties, he is actually degrading as an athlete.
Socrates Greek philosopher
“Socrates is the first to suggest abstinence from sexual pleasures. He describes his views on sex in the form of a conversation that illustrates and reinforces his previous brief notes on the dangers of sexuality... Xenophon (one of Socrates' interlocutors) takes the wrong step and discovers that although sex can be a pleasure, it also makes you a slave.
Radhanath Swami, a monk of the Vedic tradition
"Krishna teaches, 'Sense gratification has a beginning and an end, and therefore wise people do not indulge in it. Sense enjoyment lasts only a few moments and then stops, leaving us with an even greater desire for this enjoyment than before! That is his nature!" Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that lust is like fire, it is insatiable.
Sivananda Swami, 20th century saint
"The seed is the essence of all pranas, it is the sparkle in your eyes, it is your most valuable treasure. Remember this well. According to Ayurveda, eighty drops of blood are spent on the production of one drop of sperm. The seminal fluid is produced in the glands, which are directly connected with the blood. Also just as bees bring honey drop by drop into the honeycomb, so seminal fluid is taken drop by drop from the blood. The loss of the seed brings death, the preservation of the seed gives life. The seed is the basis of a man's vigor. It is his hidden treasure, it gives Brahma Tejas and strengthens the mind."
His Holiness Srila Prabhupada
The Manu Smriti says that lust cannot be quenched by any amount of sense pleasure, just as a fire cannot be extinguished by throwing wood on it. The center of all activities in the material world is sex, and therefore the material world is called maithunya-agara, the prison of sex life.
In prison, prisoners are shackled, and likewise, criminals who violate the laws of God are shackled with sex. The progress of material civilization, based on the desire for sense gratification, dooms the living being to further vegetating in the captivity of material life.
Therefore, lust is a symbol of ignorance, which keeps us in the material world. When we taste sense gratification, we experience some semblance of happiness, but in fact this imaginary feeling of happiness is the worst enemy of a living entity.
Bhagavad Gita 3.39 comments
He judges adulterers God(Heb. 13:4)
But if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it away from you, for it is better for you that one of your members perish, and not your whole body be cast into hell. And if your right hand offends you, cut it off and throw it away from you, for it is better for you that one of your members perish, and not your whole body be cast into hell (Matthew 5:29-30).
"Avoid all forms of self-satisfaction. They weaken you and make you look like a sugar cane that has been squeezed out of its juice. Don't waste semen for the sake of momentary pleasure. Quit this bad occupation. Open your eyes. Wake up. You do not suspect how destructive the effect of this practice is.
The energy that is lost in one sexual act is equivalent to the energy spent in 10 days of hard physical labor, or in three days of intensified mental labor. Don't waste yourself. Take care of this priceless energy! Then you will always be cheerful. When Virya is not used up, it transforms into Ojas Shakti or spiritual power and is stored inside the brain. Western doctors know little about this important point. Most of your illnesses come from excessive loss of semen. People who constantly spend their seed degrade physically, mentally and morally. The body and mind become lethargic and lethargy sets in. You feel weak. You will have to drag out a dreary existence, leading a similar lifestyle. Excessive sex life leads to huge energy losses. Young people do not realize the value of this vital fluid. They lose it by constantly copulating. Once this energy is lost, it cannot be returned. This is the most powerful energy in the world. One sexual act shakes the whole nervous system. You must cherish this priceless energy, even if you are a married person.
During sexual intercourse, a huge amount of energy is consumed. Poor memory, premature aging, impotence, vision problems, neurological diseases- all this is a consequence of the immoderate loss of vital fluid. "
"When sexual energy is transformed into Ojas shakti or spiritual energy, in Western psychology this is called sublimation. Sublimation is a positive dynamic process, not containment and suppression. It involves the control, accumulation and direction of sexual energy to higher centers, where it is transformed into Ojas Shakti.Material energy is transformed into spiritual energy, just as the burning of material objects creates heat, light and electricity.Like a chemical substance that changes its state when it evaporates, so sexual energy is purified by the method of spiritual sadhana.
I must consider the consequences of onanism from two points of view:
a) Consequences for the patient.
b) Consequences for the family and all mankind.
All of the above leads us to the conclusion that masturbation must to some extent affect individual parts of the human body and the entire body as a whole. The main question - what bad consequences does masturbation entail, is solved by various researchers contradictorily.
Tissot was the first to highlight this issue from a scientific point of view (1770), then Lalemand dealt with this issue in 1836 and wrote a special study “On Various Anomalies”. , comprehended the above work. It aroused great interest in itself in the circles of scientists around the world and for a long time served as a guiding thread for resolving a number of seemingly insoluble questions. Lalemand concludes that masturbation gives amazing consequences: diseases of the spinal cord, spinal tabes, various kinds of brain diseases, progressive paralysis, insanity, etc. With the light hand of Lalemand, the so-called "literature of sex" began to multiply by leaps and bounds, and until now the sexual question "truth" is interpreted differently. Almost all researchers agree on one, that the abuse of onanism weakens the entire nervous system, but not in such a sharp form as Lalemand and Tissot draws.
The nervous system generally has the ability to increase and decrease memory, depending on mental labor, to multiply and weaken energy, to raise and lower the state of mind (mood). These phenomena, of course, can be caused by masturbation. Heredity plays an important role in the neurasthenic area, and, of course, heredity is also not excluded in masturbation. That is why we conclude that masturbation in exceptional cases can pass without a trace, but, as a general phenomenon, masturbation gives serious consequences of a very serious nature.
Many people have a bewildered question: why can masturbation cause any consequences of an unpleasant nature, since in its process it is so merged with sexual intercourse, that is. with aggregation. We will answer this by referring to the conclusions of the researchers Fürbinger and Kurshman, as eminent neuropathologists. Both of them point out that masturbation is harmful, firstly, because it starts too early and involves in long protracted processes, and secondly, it is very accessible. While a man must look for women to satisfy his sexual needs, the vice of onanism is available to him at any moment, and he indulges in it excessively without the participation of the opposite sex.
The influence that masturbation exerts on the nervous system is extremely dangerous, since the entire nervous system of a person is constantly inflamed from the possibility of frequent manipulations.
Erb further aggravates this concept by the fact that the subject who resorts to onanism also experiences a moral decline, because after satisfaction he feels that he has done something vicious. A struggle arises in the soul between duty, his moral state and physical need, that we call "remorse" affects the nervous system and, in betrothal to the physical act, causes an extremely depressed state of mind, and this latter again leads to excitement and repetition of masturbation.
As far as I know, a very small percentage of onanics suffer from moral experiences. For the majority, however, an unpleasant sensation arises, which passes quickly, a sensation in which the volitional instincts give way to the instincts of voluptuousness, and the person falls into the abyss. The naturalness of the approach to the possibility of satisfying oneself at any moment, of course, differs significantly from the act of copulation, in which the temperature of the bodies that accompanies pleasure guarantees a certain physical pleasure that causes the highest tension up to the resolution of the act.
The contradictions that have arisen in connection with the question of what harmful consequences come from onanism, after the foregoing, are quite obvious. Various doctors characterized the consequences of onanism, depending on certain results of it. Lomius considers lethargy, epilepsy, apoplexy, convulsions, blurred vision, and even blindness to be the result of onanism. And not only did he find "believers" among the public, but many doctors consider Lomius's view to be correct. However, a little time passed, and the doctors not only doubted Lomius's diagnoses, but little by little began to consider masturbation an almost harmless vice. And only after A thorough study of the question of the influence of sexual activity on the whole organism and on each organ separately, several medical congresses came to the unshakable conclusion that masturbation is harmful and its consequences are very, very serious.
Fournier argues that nature itself resolves this difficult question, how harmful masturbation is, and that nature does not need exaggerations on the part of doctors. The specificity of the influence of onanism depends, of course, on many reasons: on the frequency of abuse, on sex, temperament, nervous system and the power of perception.
Such eminent scientists as Kurshman and Furbinger establish that the consumption of semen is not of great importance for the body and does not weaken it, and that when considering the harm of onanism, ejaculation should not be taken into account as a very serious minus. This, however, is not the case. Masturbation, performed at any time and extracting the semen in unlimited quantities, gradually reduces the number of livestock (spermatozoa), there is a gradual depletion of the germ cells (sperm), and the seed itself becomes thinner. This fact alone proves that ejaculation is not completely indifferent to the human body. Some authorities join my opinion, agreeing with me that the loss of semen in a man causes weakness and breakdown after copulation, while a woman who shows significant activity during copulation gets tired for a short time, i.e. not for long. It can be concluded with certainty that during onanism the entire human body is subjected to significant changes. Masturbation affects the mental, mental and physical abilities of a person.
Lively rumors caused this question in special discussions among doctors. It will be interesting for readers to get acquainted with my point of view on this issue, which is the result of practice.
Both Kurshman and Furbinger believe that masturbation and similar sexual intercourse give exactly the same effects in both cases and that the loss of semen, as we have said above, in their opinion, is not harmful to the body.
However, such a high tension of the nervous system, both central and peripheral (partial), could be harmless if both acts - onanism and copulation were performed moderately. Excess is equally harmful in the first and in the second question. This is what Kurshman and Furbinger think, and therefore moderate onanism, as we can conclude from their conclusions, is not harmful.
Prof. Erb joins this opinion, and argues that natural and masturbatory sexual satisfaction gives the same results, and vice versa, according to Erb, nervous excitement from a relationship with a woman is much sharper than masturbation. I believe that there is a huge difference between masturbation and copulation: with masturbation, an excited fantasy is necessary, brain work is very intense, and therefore the entire nervous system is more suffering than during copulation.
The opinion of these authorities concerns only the moderation of onanism and the moderation of copulation. But I pose the question, what is excess in relation to sexual functions. This question is also asked by Prof. Koch, who asks: “Where is the beginning of excess?” I have already pointed out above that there is almost no way to establish the moderation and excess of sexual excesses, since this depends on the individual characteristics of each subject. Here physique, lifestyle, temperament, sex, climate and a number of other phenomena play a role; what we will consider excessive for some is the most natural need of the organism of another person. One can only say that both sexual intercourse and masturbation depend on the individual abilities of each individual subject. During intercourse, fantasy occurs only depending on the action of the opposite sex. Here the fantasy is of a very real order, carnal, existing. Movements of the female body, hugs , mutual touch of bodies, visual impressions from observing certain parts of the body, kisses - all these are phenomena that cause external irritations. Thus, fantasy does not work very intensively during natural copulation, since all representations are caused by real facts. Added to this are the sensations of friction and movements of a tense member along the genital slit of a woman; these purely mechanical conditions lead to such a degree of orgasmus that ejaculation occurs without the participation of imagination.
With masturbation, there is not enough object of the opposite sex and its absence is replaced by fantastic ideas. The object rubs its genitals with its hands, and due to the fact that sensitivity gradually decreases with the frequency of masturbation, fantasy comes to the rescue. The brain and the entire nervous system reach such an apogee of boiling that all the energy of a person is directed only to one thing, as if it were more natural and more realistic to imagine annoying images. What a terrible effect this must have on a child's brain, which is only in its developmental period. So, the question of whether onanism is harmful, if in its frequency it does not exceed the number of copulations, must be resolved in a positive direction, i.e. that onanism is more harmful than copulation.
The intensity of the fantasy associated with the increased work of the entire central nervous system is more significant during onanism than during normal sexual intercourse.
And therefore, onanism has an unquestionably more harmful effect on the entire organism and has a degrading effect on it.
As for moderation, even within its limits, masturbation negatively affects the mental sphere and is much more harmful than copulation, even if it comes to ejaculation.
The frequency of onanism is one of the moments of its harm, surpassing copulation.
A person who has a sexual desire, along with this, all the urges for onanism appear. Prof. Koch gives statistics in which he observed the frequency of masturbation from 15-18-year-old students from 4-6 times a day. Prof. Kurshman notes that the very first appearance of sexual lust entails immediate satisfaction, since nothing interferes, and later on helps even the subject to find satisfaction.
Masturbation has a more harmful effect on the body than natural intercourse, also because it sets in much earlier, when the body and spirit of a person are still in the period of development. These moments are especially dangerous and heavy in their consequences for a person's life. Masturbation is more harmful than normal copulation in that it affects the character of a person. Furbinger establishes that the character of the onanist changes due to ignoring the opposite sex, i.e. physiological reduction, the significance of the opposite sex. And in the future, a habit sets in, which destroys all attempts to fight it, in other words, the habit becomes stronger and stronger, and the will falls, while the character of the onanist sharply decreases from these phenomena.
Masturbation is more harmful than normal intercourse also because it causes a feeling of remorse, a short-term feeling of dissatisfaction.
Erb points out that the constant struggle between excessive attraction and moral duty has a detrimental effect on the nervous system and turns most masturbators into neurasthenics.
Greisinger proves that the struggle and discord between shame, repentance and overwhelmed desires causes extreme suffering for onanists. Depressed mood, depression from the consciousness of a defeated struggle leads to more acute self-exercises in onanism. Each time, after an act of onanism, a certain reaction of a moral order sets in, but it quickly disappears. The nervous system is shaken more and more. That is why there are those serious consequences that masturbation entails.
While the act of intercourse only causes fatigue, masturbation entails a breakdown. People, after the act of copulation, most often fall into a deep pleasant sleep, meanwhile, after onanism, they feel depressed, overwhelmed and stay awake for a long time. Based on many medical studies and observations, it can be said with confidence that people, who are quite normal, not only do not find anything pleasant in fatigue after masturbation, but, on the contrary, feel a sharp depression in themselves. Natural ejaculation gives its physiological effects, ejaculation caused by onanism, from the point of view of medicine, indicates the loss of semen, which we also lose during wet dreams.
Women after sexual intercourse and after onanism are never so exhausted as men. All of the above convinces us that masturbation, in comparison with natural intercourse, is undoubtedly more harmful to the body, despite the fact that the same effects (semen flow) follow in both processes. We further conclude that even moderate masturbation is more harmful than moderate intercourse. The spiritual strength of onanists suffers especially. As for the question of excessive sexual intercourse, there is no doubt that it is just as harmful as onanism, because it causes increased nervous activity, enormous sexual tension, and all this exposes the nervous system to spinal irritations.
Predisposition plays a very important role in all these cases. We often see how healthy people with a strong nervous system, under the influence of onanism, become weak-willed, depressed and destroyed. And vice versa, we sometimes see that thin and weak people, regardless of masturbation, retain their strength and appearance.
Masturbation affects the various organs of our body differently. In children, for example, the central nervous system is affected, which leads to convulsions, convulsions, hysteria, and even epilepsy. Others begin to suffer from damage to the abdominal regions, resulting in palpitations, shortness of breath and seizures. Some have diarrhoea, catarrh of the stomach, intestines, and generally acute gastrointestinal diseases. In other patients, vision becomes dull, photophobia (photophobia), eyelid cramps appear. In a word, onanism gives such a vivid picture of various diseases that we must further dwell on each form separately, without combining them into one group.
The consequences of onanism are divided into:
1. Damage to the central nervous system;
2. Damage to the organs of external senses;
3. The defeat of the psyche and mind;
4. Defeat of digestion;
5. Influence on blood circulation and respiration;
6. Influence on the muscular organization;
7. Influence of onanism on the genitals.
8. Masturbation and its effect on the body as a whole.
The nervous system connects all the organs of our body into one inseparable whole. Our mental faculties every minute come into contact with the nervous system, on which all our movements and sensations depend.
The nervous system is a very organized region in its structure, and every impression received from the outside is recorded through the nervous system in the brain.
After this, there is nothing surprising in the fact that our nervous system is affected under the influence of vice. That internal connection that exists between the genital organs and the nervous system, and, mainly, the spinal cord, should be affected before all organs. Modern medicine has called this case sexual neurasthenia.
The ancient Jewish code of laws, the Talmud, speaks of the influence of onanism on the nervous system. This wise book indicates that those who indulge in masturbation dry their brains, and that in such people one can overhear how “the brain in the skull is shaking.” The picture that we observe in masturbation is extremely changeable and diverse.
Sexual neurasthenia refers to that form of nervous weakness, which is found in the violation of sexual intercourse, caused by a lesion of the sexual property. In this case, of course, other diseases are also possible.
The diseases that occur during onanism are so diverse that a list of them and a clear summary is beyond the scope of this work, but, considering the need to teach every doctor at least some information about these diseases, I will dwell on them in a few words.
Three types of neurasthenia attract the attention of the famous psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing.
1. Local neurosis, which is expressed in frequent pollutions and early ejaculation.
2. Lumbar neurosis, accompanied by neuralgia of the lumbosacral nerve plexus and frequent day and night pollutions, with a sharp decrease in will.
3. Increase in neurasthenic symptoms. This phenomenon affects the cerebrospinal system to such an extent that it causes sexual anomalies, such as temporary aspermatism (lack of semen), in which sperm does not appear outside, spermation and other types. This scheme of Kraft-Ebing is not completely legitimized, indisputable and unshakable, but in general terms it gives the correct interpretation of the disease. Sexual excesses can lead to spinal neurasthenia without violating the correct functions of the genital organs. On the contrary, I have the courage to assert that the genital organs are not disturbed by anything. If we remember how, due to excessive sexual intercourse or onanism, our sexual excesses have been modified, then we will be convinced that patients who abuse sexual intercourse adjoin the third stage of the scheme established by Kraft-Ebing. From various kinds of sexual excesses, various neurasthenic consequences are obtained. Onanism causes cerebral neurasthenia, excessive intercourse causes spinal neurasthenia, interrupted copulation causes mental impotence.
There are, of course, deviations from the provisions I have cited. The cerebral phenomena of sexual neurasthenia entail headaches and put pressure on the brain. Pressure and pain are felt in the forehead or in the back of the skull. Right mental activity is naturally disturbed by all this, patients refuse their work; they are unable to read, write, or work, and their general mood is gloomy, but associated with insomnia, melancholy, a sense of fear, dullness of mental faculties, lack of energy and increased irritability. With all their desire, patients are deprived of the opportunity to pull themselves together and show self-control. Very often they lose their memory, and these patients show disturbances of various senses.
I have seen patients who are strongly irritated by the light, in such cases they seek solitude, avoid acquaintances and fall into the power of hypochondria and melancholy.
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Spinal phenomena are associated with the brain and with other centers. Here, weakness, fatigue, the appearance of pain in the lumbar region and in the limbs come into the arena. Patients complain of crawling on the back, cold, heaviness in various members, pain and neuralgia. These purely individual sensations must be taken into account by the physician in the diagnosis and determined by examination. Trembling of the extremities, vibratory twitches, especially in the fingers, an increased knee jerk with a slight blow - all this indicates a serious disease, for the treatment of which the doctor must arm himself with knowledge and patience.
Excessive masturbation most often causes cerebral neurasthenia. Well-known prof. Levenfeld proves that masturbators engaged in prolonged mental labor most often suffer from cerebral neurasthenia and cerebral weakness, and, conversely, masturbators who indulge in physical labor are more likely to suffer from spinal cord disease.
Geslin explains neurasthenia in two ways: by fatigue of the centers of sexual activity, which occurs as a result of overstimulation, and by mental influences, in which the patient constantly thinks about the consequences that may arise. This causes him suffering and fear, this develops in him a hatred of life, creates melancholy and depressed mood.
The whole life, thoughts and fantasy of these patients are occupied with ideas revolving only around sexual tendencies. Gessling notes that in many married people of this category, the fear of his wife, that he can fall into sexual relaxation and create an atmosphere of legalized adultery, is so great that the patient is looking for the most artificial ways to abolish this and, not finding it, falls into a depressed mood, which is serious. affects his nervous system.
Masturbation brings absolutely incalculable troubles to young men who have a predisposition to this act on the part of their parents. Such youths are subjected to cerebral neurasthenia, with all the consequences that follow from this, up to neurasthenic seizures. Furbinger says that he knew a young man, of excellent heredity and flourishing health, who lost everything under the influence of onanism and reached complete exhaustion.
Many argued about how masturbation affects different sexes and in whom it causes more severe neurasthenia: in men or in women. Personally, I don't think there is much of a difference. Gessling says that men suffer comparatively less from emaciation than women, since they are more prone to natural sexual intercourse.
As for the opinion that the disappearance of an erection or eruption of the seed ends with masturbation, this is not entirely true. Masturbation, in contrast to normal copulation, does not need an erection, but only requires lust, desire.
Thus, from the foregoing, we conclude that onanism has an extremely sharp effect on the nervous system, the result of which is severe disturbances of the entire nervous system. Of course, there are cases of suicide, but I do not consider this a sufficiently striking factor, and those who claim that this is so, in my opinion, exaggerate somewhat.
The above opinion, that masturbation first of all affects vision, has not received sufficient interpretation in the previous part of this work. I consider it necessary to dwell on this point. It should, however, be borne in mind that not only the eye, but the sense of smell, the ear, and even speech undergo abnormal changes as a result of onanism. Tissot, and especially Koch, already in 82 pointed out the influence of onanism on vision.
Koch draws his conclusions from a number of observations of young men and women in whom eye diseases developed consistently and strongly and disappeared with the cessation of masturbation. The well-known ophthalmologists Morin, Galezovsky and Fitzgerald support their observations with a stunning list of victims of onanism. Prof. Koch makes a reference to his practice, which resulted in a number of patients suffering from subjective eye diseases, expressed in photophobia.
Outwardly, the eyes of onaks do not bear traces of lesions in all respects: normal pupils, a certain visual acuity, tension and sensation of light, the optic nerve and retina are in order, but nevertheless, the eyes of onaks are so afraid of light that gradually all eye functions are weakened, the apple gets the appearance of some kind of matte cast and the patients begin to feel dizzy. Usually in patients this manifests itself in both eyes at the same time, and these phenomena are accompanied by characteristic symptoms, such as phosphorization of the pupil, the appearance of some kind of snow flakes, circles, dots, insects before the eyes; patients go through such a state all the time, as if from the darkness they fall into a bright light, reading becomes completely impossible. Morin relates that an American woman who had masturbated for many years brought her eyesight to such a low state that she could not bear the glare of extraneous eyes.
In patients this reaction lasts between a month and several years, but I know of a patient who suffered eye damage from onanism for 20 years. Patients complained of pain in the sacral region, but there was no definite data at my disposal for the fact that they had tassel dorsalis, on the contrary, at the same time I noticed all the signs of neurasthenia in them, such as insomnia and strongly pronounced nocturnal emissions.
The age of patients suffering from visual impairment falls, for the most part, on people from 15-30 years old, while most patients have been engaged in masturbation for years, several times a day. I knew one patient who had been masturbating for 23 years, and the other two men I had used extensively for decades and, as I later learned, both of them married and continued to masturbate.
The cause of visual impairment must be sought in the brain, since the optic nerves, according to oculists, are not affected.
Old maids and women in general are very susceptible to rapid eye disease from masturbation, and for the most part it appears in the form of dry catarrh of the connective membrane of the eyes. For my colleagues, I report the appearance of the following symptoms: reddening of the connective sheath, without discharge of pus or any other secret, pressure in the region of the pupil and a burning sensation. I knew one 24-year-old patient who had been masturbating since the age of 15 every day, 4 times a day. He confessed to me that he always feels a little intoxicated, as if from morphine, and despite all the desire to stop masturbation, he cannot do this, because without it he feels oppressed and lonely. Soon this patient developed all the signs in the eyes that I have described above.
Foerster, Landesberg, and I observed a patient who developed catarrh of the connective sheath, so easily cured at a young age if it comes from other causes than masturbation, and so difficult to treat with masturbation.
Cramps of the eyelids, redness of the optic nerve, as a result of onanism, prof. Morin observed in very many patients, especially in women. Foerster cites cases of the appearance of basic disease in women, under the influence of an early-developed defect, as well as a complete greening of the cataract, and Gutchinson observed internal bleeding of the eye that arose on the basis of onanism.
Thus, it is possible to establish with certainty the duration and frequency of masturbation in patients as soon as they develop light diseases. While ophthalmologists struggle with these phenomena for a long time, among ononics these phenomena cease immediately as soon as the patients stop masturbating.
Daniel Benwer (famous Hamburg ophthalmologist) reports a case of hypersensitivity of the retina as a result of masturbation. This specialist had a 29-year-old patient who reacted to light so much that he had to wear dark glasses. This patient was a public teacher, with his vicious lasciviousness he brought himself to the point that he had to give up teaching at school. Benver made an examination of the eyes with a mirror and found that all the optic nerves, sheath, etc., were in perfect order. I recommend in these cases to resort to electrification, sodium bromide and arsenic. These remedies give very positive results in the treatment of eyes in onanics.
As soon as excessive eye sensitivity, photophobia, eyelid cramps, dilation and immobility of the pupil appear, the doctor is advised to suspect masturbation. Prof. Furbinger considers it a completely diagnostic (defining) sign of onanism - an increased knee jerk and trembling of the eyelids.
Friedrich Hoffmann observed in a patient who often resorted to masturbation, in the 23rd year of his life, severe dizziness and dilated pupils. The same physician reports stunning cases of blindness in patients engaged in masturbation. However, a number of oculists reject this conclusion and look for the causes of blindness in another, since studies with a mirror did not give positive results.
Hearing loss as a result of onanism. Here the phenomena are not as sharp as in eye diseases, but nevertheless we find materials from a number of specialists in ear diseases that convince us that masturbation undoubtedly affects hearing.
Bonafond observed in patients sharp phenomena in the ears, such as soreness, ringing, colic, while anatomically the ear did not change at all. The same is stated by Weber Lill, who observed not only during onanism, but even during too violent copulations, especially in women, phenomena unfavorable for the ear.
If in general the patient is subject to inflammation of the middle ear, then in onaniki this disease proceeds extremely unfavorably. Symptoms associated with ear disease are detected in the soreness of the spinal column, in the region of the thoracic and nervous lumbar vertebrae. Doctors tried to resort to local treatment, but this did not give any effect, since the main causal cause of the disease, i.e., was not eliminated. masturbation.
Weber Lile argues that some women who suffer from hearing loss refuse marriage, fearing that their disease will worsen (probably depending on copulation). The most characteristic should be considered that with all ear diseases, patients do not have anatomical hearing damage, meanwhile, there is tinnitus, pain and increased auditory sensitivity.
Above, we indicated how adversely masturbation affects the central nervous system and from this, not only physically, but also spiritually, a person’s life decreases. Psychiatrists have recently received a wealth of material to observe how the mental state of people changes depending on sexual needs. Scientifically, this was clarified by Kraft-Ebing, Mol and other scientists who gave brilliant analyzes of sexual psychopathy.
Prolonged masturbation deals a heavy blow to a person's mental faculties. Cerebral neurasthenia, which is a consequence of sexual excesses, affects mainly the spiritual emotions of a person. If we follow what happens in the soul of a person during the act of onanism and after that, we will notice that the very process, which causes more and more excitement, increases the erection, spiritual and mental exaltation to the utmost pathos. At the moment of a gradual increase in sexual voluptuous experiences, the state of mind of the onanist dictates to him ecstasy, elevated words, poetic analogies, delusional phrases, and as soon as the moment of satisfaction comes, as soon as the erection falls, the pathos of a person falls along with it, his exaltation and ecstasy. At the moment of voluptuousness, blood circulation accelerates, the whole body is intensely warmed, blood rushes to the head so that the person experiencing this state seems to lose his mind, his eyes close, and sometimes it comes to convulsions, to convulsions, as a result of erotic ecstasy.
The shock of the entire nervous system entails a complete exhaustion of the brain. This indicates that such a process cannot but cause an extreme shock to the will and feelings of a person. It is not difficult to imagine what happens to a subject who indulges in this kind of manipulation for years several times a day.
To Dr. Tissot, one patient reports the following: “I have lost my power of imagination, my cheerfulness is waning every day, and all my feelings are fading away. I look at my surroundings like a dream, like visions. I extract incredible efforts from my devastated soul in order to find in myself the potential for these lines.
Above, when describing cerebral neurasthenia, I already had a chance to talk about the devastation that occurs in the brain of a person, and how this affects his memory: heaviness in the head, severe dizziness, weakening of the nervous system, loss of memory - all this accompanies the patient, which has signs of cerebral neurasthenia, and it comes to the fact that patients are forced to refuse to perform their duties. This circumstance alone, i.e. the consciousness of a person that he has turned himself off from life and duties entails dangerous mental consequences.
Such patients are helpless at the slightest difficulty, cowardly, indecisive, distracted, shy, timid, they avoid society and seek solitude. They are always in the grip of anxiety, fear and nightmares. In many patients, insomnia is added to all these phenomena, and then they are infinitely miserable. They indulge in their state of mind, lonely, gloomy and depressed.
Patients, going to bed, are tormented by thoughts all night, their conscience is wounded, self-flagellation arises - a process that torments them even more. Patients do not know sleep, become hypochondriacs, and in the course of time they develop abnormal morbid tendencies, entailing a series of phenomena indicating that cerebral neurasthenia passes into psychosis.
From this we draw the unmistakable conclusion that since young people develop melancholy, hypochondria, then the presence of onanism should be suspected here. However, the assertions that this vice entails progressive paralysis and insanity are completely untrue. Never before has madness been the result of onanism, let alone progressive paralysis. Kurshman quite correctly believes that masturbation can serve as a predisposing reason for mental illness.
There are a number of authorities, like Ellinger, Hagenbach and others, who consider masturbation to be the direct cause of mental illness. Eringer, for example, claims that masturbation in sixty-three cases gave serious symptoms of mental disorders; Fleming, Frederick and Morel are of the same opinion. Prof. Esquirol suggests that most of the mental illness observed in the aristocratic strata of society is the result of onanism. He writes the following: “Onanism is a deadly evil of people, it is the cause of madness, especially among the propertied class. Hagenbach found 69 cases of insanity (out of 800) where masturbation could be the cause; however, several of them undoubtedly entailed mental illness.
In fact, those who see masturbation as the only cause of this or that mental illness are often mistaken. Masturbation is rather a symptom of a detected psychosis and an accidental stimulus to the acceleration of the course of the disease, the predisposition of which is determined by heredity, neuropathic constitution, nervous diseases, etc. phenomena. Where onanism seems to be the causative agent of mental anomalies, in reality it only contributes to the detection of mental illness, exciting and weakening the central nervous system. The soil favorable for mental disorders is created directly by masturbation and is expressed in spinal and sexual neurosis, in relaxation, shaking, irritation of the spinal cord, attacks of neuralgia, as well as in mild disorders of the body such as hypochondria, excessive excitability, depression, disbelief in oneself, and etc. The general depression, low tone, torments of conscience, which have a detrimental effect on the central nervous system and on the whole soul of a person, are especially serious.
Speaking of various kinds of mental illnesses that are caused by masturbation, but which in essence only masturbation accompanies, all scientists believe that masturbation is not the real cause of insanity. The phenomena they indicate, such as hallucinations of hearing, continuous deception of external senses, weakness of the will, hopelessness, are not characteristic symptoms of this disease; all these signs are observed in other types of mental illness.
The famous English psychiatrist, Dr. Skye, held the view that there is a special kind of "masturbatory madness", accompanied by a wandering look, general weakness, oppression, awkwardness, suicidal tendencies, etc.
Another doctor, the Englishman Spitske, gives a completely different picture of the phenomena of a mental order during onanism; he claims that patients develop general drowsiness, the gloom of thoughts is suddenly replaced by elation, general enlightenment; discouragement is in direct proportion to the frequency of masturbation. The disease manifests itself at the age of 13-20 years; before the age of 13, mental illness is extremely rare, and in this case we are dealing with ordinary stupidity, epilepsy and extreme excitement.
Kraft-Ebing is of the opinion that onanistic psychosis does not exist, but he argues that onanism can contribute to the manifestation of hypochondria, melancholy, hysteria and epilepsy, in other words, onanism can cause those hidden ailments that are firmly embedded in the mental body of every person.
There is even an opinion that masturbation entails idiocy, but this is not true. There was no case when onanism would be the only cause of idiocy; psychiatric science establishes the opposite phenomenon, that idiocy causes a tendency to onanism. The question of epilepsy, that functional neurosis, which is expressed in the form of seizures, remains open. As a doctor, I must confirm that the causes of epilepsy have not yet been established. Attempts that are made by doctors in explaining the origin of epilepsy are untenable, they are only moments predisposing to this disease.
Predisposition must be understood here as heredity, i.e., that any of the relatives of the sick person has ever suffered from epilepsy. This, however, is absolutely not required for the occurrence of a serious illness. If the patient is subject to predisposition, then the neuropsychic shock of the central and peripheral nervous systems contributes to the appearance of a complete picture of epilepsy.
In the old days, doctors defined copulation as temporary epilepsy, and with good reason. Tissot, Hoffmann and Galer note cases of epileptic seizures after each act of onanism. Zimmerman describes cases of epileptic seizures in a 23-year-old boy after onanistic exercises and nocturnal emissions. When the patient succeeded in mastering his impulses, the epileptic fits ceased, but resumed with even greater force, as soon as he fell into his vice again. Prof. Morel describes the same case, in which he indicates that the epileptic seizures completely disappeared from the patient and that he managed to cure the patient of onanistic inclinations. Such a favorable outcome completely restored the mental faculties of the patient, who returned to his normal activities immediately.
Often we observe epileptic seizures after the act of copulation among animals, mainly dogs. Everything that we have given here in connection with epilepsy and onanism is almost completely applicable to the definition of the connection between hysteria and onanism. Hysteria is also a predisposing symptom, but by no means can this phenomenon be taken into account as the immediate cause of the disease. Hysteria, on the other hand, is exclusively associated only with mental processes and has the same unclear etiology as epilepsy. We know cases when hysteria appears in people who are mentally very excited, regardless of whether this excitement is single or repeated for a long time. Onanistic excitations are strong mental and physical irritations that can bring the central nervous system out of its usual normal state of equilibrium. This, of course, is aggravated if the subject has a predisposition to illness. A perverted upbringing, which entails excessive mental stress, certainly sets the stage for hysteria.
Sexual processes for the development of hysteria do not pass without a trace; this statement is confirmed by countless observations in medical practice. In women, hysteria is closely associated with sexual affects that occur after nymphomania and other sexual excesses, and after onanism, hysterical seizures are observed in women. Tissot and Foder give many authoritative facts in support of this opinion; thus, it is safe to assume that masturbation is a factor that reveals hysteria, but does not generate it.
Furbinger proves quite rightly that insanity is not a direct consequence of onanism or excessive sexual excesses. He categorically does not allow that sexual neurasthenia could result in a severe form of psychopathy. In contrast to this opinion, such solid authorities as Griesinger and Ellinger prove that masturbation is a serious cause of insanity.
Our conclusion boils down to the unanimous diagnosis of eminent scientists and observers that masturbation causes great harm to mental abilities, reason, weakening memory in the first case, and hindering the development of thinking in the second. Masturbation can also cause mild psychosis (malancholia, hysteria, mysticism), but always in the presence of heredity. Onanism never leads to severe psychoses and cannot cause either insanity, or suicide, or progressive paralysis.
In the statistics of psychiatric hospitals, we find the following figures for onanics: in Sweden, the mentally ill turned out to be 3.7%, in England - 1.1%.
Short-term onanism, which inevitably arises as a transitional form to sexual intercourse in almost all people, does not affect mental abilities in any way. The longer and longer masturbation lasts, the more dangerous it is for a person and his intellectual activity.
Just as psychosexual perversions can cause masturbation, masturbation is a predisposing cause of the mentioned sexual psychoses. It is physiologically difficult to establish boundaries between normal and excessive. We pointed out even higher that this depends on the subjective, individual characteristics of a person. By nymphomania and satyriasis, we define the acute sexual state of a man or woman, in which the most indifferent ideas entail voluptuous sensations, and this sexual lust is so strong that the patient tries at all costs to be satisfied.In their sexual excitement, patients reach hallucinations, insanity, and can often be dangerous to public morals.Nymphomaniacs and satyriasis are not difficult to recognize, since they lose their self-control so much that they do not try to clothe their pernicious passion They are seized with a wave of their dirty desires and lose all concept of shame, there are times when they indulge in their vice even in the presence of strangers.
Deslyand explains all these anomalies by a false upbringing. He knew a child-girl who could not be weaned from onanism either by requests, or exhortations, or threats, or even corporal punishment; she indulged in this vice shamelessly in front of everyone, even at the dinner table, at the sight Afterwards, marriage did not save this woman from vice, and she continued to masturbate until her death.
The root of sexual vices hidden in the body awakens in a person onanistic inclinations, later on - perversions, and over time leads to sexual psychosis. As a curiosity, I will talk about a case of kleptomania as a consequence of onanism. Dr. Zippe in 1878 had the case of a 32-year-old patient, a baker by profession, who had masturbated for 19 years. When he saw a beautiful woman, he became so excited that his self-control left him; the heart began to beat strongly, the penis came into tension and in order to satisfy his passion, he had to touch some object of the toilet of this woman, and he stole her handkerchief or something else, and after that satisfaction came . Mental delusion can lead to mutilation of the genitals, which is certainly a consequence of onanism.
We know many cases, disgusting in their savagery, which evoke feelings of disgust in us.
Chopard describes a case when a 15-year-old youth reached such perfection in vice that indulging in onanism eight times a day, he did not extract the seed. Subsequently, he began to irritate the urethra with various objects, but when this also ceased to work, he began to incise his penis with a knife, and the voluptuous feeling paralyzed the pain so much that at that time he was satisfied.
Very often we meet with the facts of damage to the urethra, the mucous membrane of the bladder, the uterine cervix and even the uterus itself. These mutilations of the genital organs give the patients a pure voluptuousness and in the end force them to turn to surgeons.
If these operations are performed without anesthesia, they are very painful and for a certain time wean the patient from this vice.
The harmful effect of onanism on the digestive organs is manifested exclusively through sexual neurasthenia. These phenomena, of course, are not as frequent as damage to the nervous system. In neurasthenics engaged in masturbation, digestion is difficult due to the so-called nervous dyspepsia, which is expressed in pain in the stomach immediately after eating, as well as in belching, vomiting, especially after mental unrest. These phenomena are accompanied by loss of appetite, ejaculation and an unpleasant taste in the mouth. Less commonly, masturbators develop nervous gastric diseases, complicated by vomiting, perstaltic bowel movement, constipation and bloating.
A thorough study of patients showed that gastric diseases occur as a result of an excited mental state, as well as under the influence of onanistic seizures. The central nervous system controls all abnormal phenomena that cause pain in the stomach, and, as it turns out, this phenomenon is not of a nervous order, but has all the symptoms of a disease of the gastric nerves. In such patients, a headache, heaviness in the head, a violation in the field of sexual administration and an unbalanced state of mind are noticed.
The general condition of the patient depends mainly on the mood, and the mood of the spirit changes depending on the gastrointestinal phenomena. In some patients, stomach pains come on immediately after taking digestible food, even in small quantities, such as from a few spoons of soup, from two or three sips of broth; in other cases, the masturbator easily digests a large meal of hard-to-digest dishes. It is impossible to make an accurate diagnosis that could determine the origin of gastrointestinal diseases. It depends mainly on how the patient's stomach is generally adapted to the digestion of coarse food. Most often, we notice complications in the stomach in patients of the prosperous class, who are accustomed to pampered food, all sorts of delicacies, such as caviar, salmon, sardines, etc., as well as to alcoholic beverages, cognac, etc. Nervous diseases of the stomach are also joined by catarrh of the stomach. In young men of both sexes, at a time when the body needs an influx of nutrients and the need for food is increased, masturbation causes increased appetite.
At first, it seems that the body intensively replenishes the departed energy, due to the long process of onanism, by demanding large doses of food. Over time, with prolonged masturbation, a completely different picture emerges: patients experience thinness, pallor, and all those nutritional disorders that lead to nervous cachexia are noticed. All this is accompanied by a breakdown, weakness, swelling of the intestines, vomiting, constipation and diarrhea. Women are especially predisposed to this. I have observed in patients diarrhea of an undeniably onanistic origin; one 20-year-old patient had attacks of diarrhea as soon as she got into bed and warmed her genitals. 5-6 times during the night she had these urges, and according to the diagnosis of doctors, and my personal observation, this woman suffered from sexual neurasthenia.
It was possible to establish that diarrhea followed shortly after the death of her husband and, as it turned out later, from onanistic manipulations, to which this widow often resorted. I advised the patient to get married as soon as possible, and when she soon carried out her intention, she was completely freed from all stomach pains. Here are the facts that convince us of the influence of sexual neurasthenia on the digestive processes. Prof. Preyer cites a number of cases of gastric diseases that have arisen in connection with a disorder of the sexual sphere. Hoffmann talks about a man who had diarrhea after an act of onanism, and Fournier comments on another case of a young man with severe abdominal colic and diarrhea caused by onanica, and when the patient was given dietary food (a small amount of red wine, meat food, etc.) All these symptoms immediately disappeared. In general, indigestion in masturbators is not so rare. It must be admitted, however, that Fournier somewhat exaggerates these phenomena. According to the general conclusion of doctors, sexual neurasthenia, which arose on the basis of onanism, entails disturbances in mental and spiritual activity and, in very rare cases, indigestion.
Not only doctors, but also most people know about the existence of a connection between the respiratory organs (throat) and sexual functions. It is known, for example, how in the period of manhood the voice of young men changes, which then goes down, then rises, acquiring a shade of hoarseness or sonority. There are also cases when in ancient times they resorted to castration of singers, in order to preserve the voice, mainly in boys. In Italy, back in the 20th century, the testicles of boys were cut out when they entered the Italian church choir. Medicine knows cases when women undergoing a castration operation changed their voice, which acquired a masculine shade, more coarse, while in adult men this operation caused just the opposite phenomenon. The effect of masturbation on the lungs is insignificant, and if there are still reverse cases in medicine, then this refers to the period when masturbation has not yet been sufficiently studied by researchers.
Plyaters describes a case when a man who remarried, during intercourse with his wife and during ordinary sexual arousal, had asthma attacks. This subject died during violent copulation. Plyaters does not say anything about the true cause of the patient's death, that is, about a disease of the lungs or heart.
However, it must be said that the latest authors - modern researchers - are of the same opinion that masturbation has an extremely unfavorable effect on the lungs. Fournier, for example, testifies that onanists, for the most part, suffer from underdevelopment of the chest, difficulty breathing, lung damage and chronic catarrh. Fournier considers this fact so convincing that it does not need to be supported by other observations.
Even Riebing, this "innovator" in the field of investigating the causality of onanism, reports that diseases of the heart and lungs are undoubtedly the consequences of onanism.
Peyer cites a number of cases of asthmatic patients due to sexual excesses, i.e. there is a so-called sexual asthma. I admit that the process was aggravated by the phenomena of sexual neurasthenia, the bronchial state of the respiratory tract, and more often by asthmatic processes.
If we are talking about the direct and immediate effect of onanism on the respiratory tract, then I must point out that there is no direct effect of onanism on the respiratory and circulatory organs.
Onanism has a more detrimental effect on the circulatory organs. This time, sexual neurasthenia takes precedence. To be convinced of the influence of onanism on the activity of the heart, it is enough to follow the phenomena that arise during copulation. Excitation multiplies the number of heartbeats, breathing spirals, the face is filled with blood. This creates an excessive acceleration of blood circulation and brings the subject to the extreme limit of tension. Here is the question whether excessive onanism in the presence of a predisposition, such as arteriosclerosis and other causes, can lead to apoplexy or the occurrence of an aneurysm. In science we find cases when the excessive excitement of one man with a young girl led to death, due to an insignificant aortic aneurysm. Palpitations, attacks of pain in the chest region, increased cardiac activity, paroxysmal increased heart rate - can certainly develop in the form of heart neuroses in masturbators.
The fact that such phenomena on the part of the heart are still dependent on a strong nervous influence convinces us that onanists suffering from cardiac neurosis are also subject to other nervous diseases. The latter conclusion gives us an undoubted right to suspect sexual neurasthenia in the patient.
Following this, the question arises about the possibility of the influence of onanism on the muscular system, i.e. about the possible consequences of onanism, such as complete paralysis and even partial paralysis. We must here, with regard to the influence of onanism on the muscular system, completely repeat what we have said about the relationship between onanism and the respiratory organs, i.e., that influence is exaggerated. In 1857, the famous French scientist Bourbon chose this issue as the topic of his dissertation. A number of his conclusions and observations boiled down to the fact that small rushes of blood should have an undoubted effect on the brain and, mainly, the spinal cord.
These phenomena give rise to partial shocks, which, in turn, lead to paraplegia.
I consider this incredible, since I do not know, either in my practice or in the practice of other scientists, cases of paralysis in a patient, contractures and other "shock" consequences from onanism.
In my opinion, onanism weakens the muscular system, which is why after each act of masturbation, along with a decrease in mental activity and slight physical fatigue, there is a weakening of the gait, fatigue, and sometimes pain in the limbs. Patients often complain of a feeling of heaviness in all members. I consider this kind of phenomenon to be symptomatic for diagnosticians as well, but as a doctor I cannot admit the dependence of paralysis on masturbation.
I have to divide this part into two groups:
1. Organic lesions and -
2. Lesions are functional.
Organic lesions are less important than the latter. According to the observations of doctors, from frequent masturbation, as well as from frequent perverted copulations, the genitals in men and women increase, especially in the former, when the size and size of the penis reaches extraordinary sizes. In boys and adult men, the penis and scrotum simultaneously increase, and in girls and women, large and small shameful lips and, mainly, the clitoris. This also occurs due to constriction from frequent flushes of blood. We find materials in studies on masturbation in which we can deduct that in prostitutes the clitoris reached a length of 6-8 centimeters, at which it swells strongly, turns purple-red, folds form near it and in its appearance it resembles the shape of a male penis . In medicine, we know cases when such phenomena gave us reason to consider such women as hermaphrodites. Their shameful lips lengthened, signs of edema appeared, they sagged and thickened. The external opening in these cases opens, and the expansion of the canal extends almost to the neck of the bladder.
If it can be argued that masturbators, as a result of their pernicious passion, enlarged the genitals, then it cannot be concluded from this that masturbation is the cause here. In the vast majority of cases, the genitals of onanists are no different from the genitals of all people.
Eczema, rashes appear on the genitals, arising from rubbing and scratching them. These are, however, rare phenomena and they appear mainly in girls and women. In practice, I usually did not have to observe this. Masturbation, performed by hand or in other ways, entails other consequences than friction of the thighs, the introduction of foreign bodies into the genital slit, etc. Tardieu points out that some girls inserted various objects into their vaginas and developed the elasticity of the genital organs to such an extent that in later they succeeded without violating the hymen. With onanism, by rubbing the thighs, the foreskin develops less in relation to the size of the clitoris than when masturbating with a hand, and the clitoris does not lengthen as much, a characteristic feature is its elasticity and elongation, in the form of a pestle.
The influence of masturbation on the internal female organs, especially on the cervix and its appendages, is also small. Most girls and adult girls are not so often prone to diseases of the genital organs, despite frequent masturbation. Experiments show that diseases of the genital parts in women arise mainly after marriage, and most often diseases occur as a result of gonorrhea in their husbands. However, it should be remembered that since there is some kind of anomaly in the uterus itself, then masturbation, which sharply increases sexual activity and irritates the genitals, has an extremely unfavorable effect on the general sexual sphere.
Masturbation certainly affects the early development of sexual functions, that is. early maturation of sexual desire, and in connection with this causes premature erections and ejaculation. That's all I can say about the organic violation of the genital organs in masturbation.
Functional damage to the genital organs and urinary tract, no doubt, entirely dependent on sexual neurasthenia. I divide them into two groups:
a) on neuroses of genitourinary origin and - on
b) functional disorders.
a) neuroses.
First of all, in case of urinary diseases, the bladder is affected, i.e. there are nerve pains in the bladder.
The disease consists of suffering that appears in the area of the pubic bone, occurring during or after urination. In addition, neurosis entails an increased urge to urinate, and at the same time urine comes out in drops, and in color and composition it is completely normal. This can be explained by the abnormal innervation of the muscles that block the bladder. Etoile reports cases of the appearance of bloody oochi after onanism and even its retention.
The consequences are even more terrible when the so-called "urinary incontinence" appears in patients. This disease can last from the earliest years up to the age of 30, and it occurs mainly in girls, as a result of onanism. I observed a 12-year-old patient, who urinated under herself every night. Her appearance, physique, melancholic appearance, and other signs led me to the idea that the girl indulged in masturbation. From the inquiries of others, I learned that my suspicions were quite reasonable, since the father overtook the girl during masturbation. Through long-term treatments, I managed to achieve very real results.
Sexual neuroses are often expressed in neuralgia of the testicles of the surrounding parts, and least of all - of the urinary tract. Among my patients, I knew one student who suffered from severe neuralgic pains in the region of the testicles, which soon spread to the spermatic cord and caused attacks of sexual neurasthenia as a result. I resorted to treatment with faradic current, and this gave favorable results. In other patients, I have observed increased sensitivity of the head of the penis. The least of all I have noticed in patients is the so-called "dance of the testicles", which occurs due to muscle twitching.
b) Functional disorders.
This phenomenon occurs in both men and women, moreover, in men it causes semen and impotence, and in women - infertility.
White sputum is undoubtedly the result of prolonged onanism. It is known that in young people leading a normal lifestyle (abstinence), wet dreams appear in a dream that occur without the participation of the will of a person. Pollutions are physiological and painful, but it is impossible to establish a boundary between them.
Pollutions arising in the state of wakefulness should be attributed to pollutions of painful phenomena, i.e. to periodic, too frequent eruptions of the seed during erection of the penis and voluptuous sexual sensations.
Semyonation, i.e. the outpouring of semen, which, in contrast to wet dreams, does not entail an erection, and is also free from voluptuousness, occurs mainly during urination and stool.
It can be said with full confidence that frequent wet dreams prevail over spermatorrhea. This is explained by the fact that the public considers wet dreams to be a safe phenomenon and is afraid of the ejaculation that occurs during bowel movements.
Increased walking, excessive tension, even touching the genitals can serve as an impetus for the appearance of sperm, which is reminiscent of the beginning of sexual excesses and onanism. Sperm is a cloudy gelatinous liquid with a specific odor and, if viewed under a microscope, it consists of billions of spermatozoa. With the progressive development of the disease, especially when wet dreams appear due to onanism, the semen becomes watery, more transparent, thinner, and the number of spermatozoa in it decreases. I must say that not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively they change.
The disease here referred to is the result of the patient's neurasthenic tendencies, and is chiefly found in people of the prosperous class, who do not overburden their mental functions with work and are able to indulge uncontrollably in sexual pleasures. It is this social position that multiplies the number of masturbators; it is quite natural that we find this disease predominantly in men of mature age, especially in the 20th year of life.
Sexual impotence (impotence) in men indicates onanism; by impotence we mean the inability to perform the act of copulation with the opposite sex, i.e. complete weakening of sexual activity during intercourse. Impotence is different in form: nervous and mental.
Nervous impotence is the most common form among patients. This impotence, since it is associated with sexual neurasthenia, is temporary, just like weakness, insomnia, palpitations. This typical picture of field neurasthenia is extremely varied and extremely variable. The only question left unexplained is why, with sexual neurasthenia, some have only seminal flow, others have nervous impotence, and others have both.
There is an opinion that onanism subsequently gives only seminal flow and that sexual impotence is caused by sexual excesses. Practitioners have observed that both of these vices result in joint symptoms, seminal bleeding and impotence, and sometimes (but this is less common) one of these phenomena. Onanism, along with sexual excesses, gives the same picture of seminiferous or impotence, which we observe in systematic (interrupted) copulations.
In patients, this disease appears in the following order: first sedation, and then - impotence. Furbinger reports that, according to his observations, about 30% of patients suffering from nervous impotence owe their illness exclusively to onanism.
So, we give a description of these diseases according to the following statistics:
1. Absolute impotence,
2. Relative and -
3. Temporary.
Absolute impotence is characterized by a complete inability to have sexual intercourse with a woman, despite the conditions conducive to this.
Relative impotence occurs when the ability to copulate is lost under the influence of the mood of the spirit and environmental conditions.
Temporary impotence cannot be characterized by any well-established symptoms, it appears rarely, for a short time and is soon replaced by full sexual energy.
The father of a large family - my patient - 40 years old, suffered from dyspepsia and cardiac neurosis. He complained to me that for 8-14 days he was not able to copulate with his wife, and he acquired this disease due to interrupted copulation, which he resorted to quite often in his married life. The first two phenomena (absolute and relative impotence) are the mildest forms of the disease, and they are accompanied by the disappearance of erection in men, without which the act of copulation is unthinkable. Very often, just before the introduction of a penis into the female sexual sphere, a sudden lethargy of the penis occurs, but there are cases when this lethargy occurs after its introduction.
Nervous impotence is accompanied mainly by the eruption of the seed, which occurs at the very beginning or even before the beginning of the act. Kraft-Ebing believes that an early form of impotence appears in persons who suffer from sexual neurasthenia. At this point, I draw the special attention of practicing doctors. - They have every reason to believe that if a patient has an early eruption of the seed, then there is sexual neurasthenia, which will either lead to impotence, or rewarded the patient with impotence.
Nervous impotence is the result of early ejaculation. This kind of form of impotence is the most common. Furbinger considers these sufferings to be very severe, approaching the forms of daytime emissions. I disagree with him in this view, because practice has shown me that there is a significant difference between them: daytime emissions, accompanied by only a slight sexual arousal and an attempt to copulate, accompanied by a slight erection and early ejaculation, but at the same time it gives everything effects that take place during copulation.
Nervous impotence also occurs as a result of a violation of a man's ability to erections - the most frequent form and, in practical terms, important. The penis cannot come into a state of great tension, and if he succeeds, then only for a few seconds. This phenomenon indicates that a person suffers from a decline in energy, a decrease in mental activity and relevance in all life issues. On the contrary, energetic people, possessed by a large will with sufficiently developed mental faculties, are prone to quick erections for a rather long period; with old age, all sexual functions die out: sexual lust, orgasmus and eruption of the seed. There is a picture similar to the above form of impotence. Nervous impotence causes in most patients local disorders of the genital area: either increased sensitivity of the head of the penis, or loss of its sensitivity.
Mental impotence is less often a consequence of masturbation, more often it is observed with "interrupted copulation", which has been practiced by patients for years.
Mental impotence often occurs in newlyweds and newlyweds, especially in the first time after the wedding. Patients at the same time are terribly depressed, oppressed, as their honeymoon is disturbed. I will allow myself to cite the mental state of an impotent described by Reti. “Two mutually loving people got married. The wife, possessing great beauty, grace, tenderness, in love to the point of self-forgetfulness, was ready to give herself to her beloved husband with fullness characteristic only of women, but at the decisive moment, despite the most ardent lustful urges, to his horror, he was deprived of the opportunity to cause an erection. The woman is amazed, depressed by the unexpected impotence of her beloved, and the latter, like a serious sinner, is humiliated and disgraced ... Every movement of his wife seems to him contempt, boundless mockery, and if she is so chaste that she does not understand the meaning of impotence, then the husband nevertheless experiencing a terrible feeling of depression and emptiness."
Suffering, internal division, fear of the future make a person an insignificant creature, this is aggravated by the fact that such phenomena were not observed before marriage. In most cases, such patients are young people in love who, during the time of their marriage, are obsessed with a certainty, bordering on psychosis, that they will not succeed in possessing a future wife.
How can this be explained? There is one mental explanation: lack of confidence in one's sexual power.
A tense idea of future lust entails such a sharp increase in sexual excitability that the normal course of the reflex process changes, and just before the act of copulation, sexual tension falls. Most of the first-time copulators, if they have previously engaged in masturbation, go to the marriage bed with a sense of horror and uncertainty about the positiveness of the act. Here we observe all the symptoms of psychic impotence.
If mental impotence develops after marriage, then there are signs of previous onanism and "interrupted copulation" practiced for years. Young people are sometimes haunted by the obsessive thought that they will never cope with the necessary act, and this uncertainty entails phenomena of a purely nervous nature, bordering almost on auto-suggestion, they actually do not succeed in capturing a woman.
The weakening of sexual activity is revealed especially when the "early masturbator" begins to gradually refrain from his vice in order to prepare himself for normal sexual intercourse. Here we observe the premature eruption of the seed. These phenomena, however, disappear quite quickly and without a trace, if only one who masturbates with sufficient willpower and determination leaves his vice.
Relative or temporary impotence in no way excludes the ability to reproduce offspring. Furbinger believes that mental or nervous impotence does not interfere with fertilization. The assertion that fertilization is impossible without sexual power is absolutely wrong; in fact, the essence of the prolongation of the human race is not hidden in arousal, but in the release of healthy fertilizing sperm, i.e., in a condition feasible by the percentage of people suffering from temporary impotence as a consequence of masturbation.
Since ancient times, diseases of the genital area in men, in the form of ejaculation or impotence, are explained as the consequences of onanism. Until now, it has not occurred to anyone that similar phenomena are observed in women. If we can argue about functional disorders of the female sexual areas that occur in exactly the same way as in men, then in women it is still necessary to distinguish between two types of sexual disorder, namely: 1) vaginismus, 2) infertility, both phenomena are the consequences of onanism. a consequence of onanism, we have already indicated in previous chapters, it is only important to establish here that onanism is a consequence of vaginismus, which is expressed in a greatly increased sensitivity of the hymen, with which the entrance to the vagina is so acute that copulation becomes unthinkable.This phenomenon gives rise to the suspicion of a predisposition hysterical women to sexual neurasthenia.Excessive sensitivity of the nerves of the genital area corresponds to the muscles that They also contract convulsively, at the most superficial touch to the genitals. Often these sensations are caused by a man with an inept approach to the act of copulation, ignorance of the anatomical devices of the female genital organs.
Prof. Kish reports such a case: a young woman suffering from vaginismus experienced such pain when a male organ touched her that she could not allow her husband to copulate. This led to further divorce. More than a year later, this lady came to me as a patient, remarried, who turned out to have a complete relapse of the experienced anomaly. Kish found clear signs of vaginismus in her, a disease that arose under the influence of prolonged masturbation even before marriage.
In my practice, there were other cases of vaginismus; I was able to cure these phenomena by abstaining from masturbation.
Infertility, as a consequence of onanism, is a highly controversial issue. In any case, if the influence of onanism can affect infertility in women, then this influence is not direct, i.e. in other words, masturbation may contribute to infertility, but it is not the direct cause of it. Aran used one patient in whom, as a result of onanism, the uterus and its appendages were poorly developed, and Cambel, on the basis of his practice, reports the case of the absolute cessation of menstruation in a young woman who indulged in masturbation.
Insufficient development of the sexual parts can, due to the abuse of onanism, be attributed to mutually dependent forms, but one should not conclude that onanism leads directly to infertility. After all, we know cases when the development of the genital organs suffers from the rudiments of infertility, that is, predisposition, and if, under these conditions, the state of the sexual sphere is aggravated by masturbation, then, of course, infertility can come faster.
The connection between onanism and cohabitation exists and is expressed in the following: the act of copulation in normal and healthy people should not cause either a breakdown or a depressed mood, this, of course, does not apply to nervous people, in whom these two phenomena, plus fatigue, arise directly after sexual intercourse. And in this case, one can unmistakably suspect sexual neurasthenia. We observe the same thing in persons subjected to seeding as a result of masturbation, and we see exactly the same picture when copulating with old masturbators. Mental weakness, general fatigue occurs in them immediately after sexual intercourse.
If we have concluded that masturbation affects individual organs of our body, if the consequences of masturbation affect the individual both mentally and physically, then we will unmistakably conclude that masturbation has a general effect on the entire human body. And here we are not talking about a breakdown or malnutrition, but about general depression, fatigue and complete disorganization of the organic state of a person, depending on the duration of this person's occupation with masturbation.
Personally, I am sure that the majority of young men, pale and thin, owe the state of their body to their debilitating vice. If any of the doctors does not share my point of view, then I attribute this to the insufficient study of onanism in the medical literature in general. In this case, I apply the method not so much medical as psychological: if the patient suffers from consumption, anemia, diabetes, kidney disease, general decline in strength, and, moreover, masturbates, then this defect contributes to an even more significant decrease in strength and disruption of the state of the body. I knew people with a very strong physique, in which masturbation undermined their general state of health, and if they point out to me that there are cases when masturbation did not affect the human body in any way, then I will attribute this to exceptional and unlikely cases.
Traces of onanism on human health remain in the form of a nervous disorder of the digestive organs, or other phenomena that entail complete decadence and strength and mood. One way or another, the consequences of onanism are felt, and no criticism of this view will convince me otherwise.
At the same time, there is a gait disorder, limited mobility, running and weakening of the muscular system. If, when observing young men with pale faces, suffering from apathy and fatigue, we cannot recognize the true cause of their condition, then, without any doubt, the cause lies in sexual excesses, regardless of whether it was natural copulation or onanism.
Onaniki also often suffer from insomnia, and if they manage to fall asleep for a while, then their sleep is sensitive, anxious, restless. All these phenomena drive them to the doctor, but they leave him for the most part disappointed. The doctor determines the disease of the stomach, nervousness, anemia, and often he does not recognize the true cause of the disease, while the patient hides: a sense of shame, awkwardness take possession of him. Complete mental discord, dissatisfaction begins, and the patient falls into despair. I am writing these lines so that the doctor in all the cases I have indicated will look for the main cause of the disease. The phenomena I have listed are so symptomatic that an unmistakable diagnosis can bring salvation to the patient.
I would like to finish this chapter with a few words about the consequences of onanism.
Let us assume the case when a person engaged in masturbation is endowed with excellent physical health, full mental flowering and does not suffer from his vice in any way, moreover, he enjoys absolutely hygienic living conditions. Nevertheless, I have no reason to believe that serious consequences will not arise from onanism under the indicated conditions. Undoubtedly, there will be a process of gradual weakening, both physical and moral, the degree of resistance to the will will decrease, and the patient will become a slave to his vice.
I think that we will be close to the truth if we point out that humanity usually begins its sexual activity with onanism, and if this vice, which began from a young age, did not stop in time, then it entails a chronic, I would say, epidemic continuation of masturbation. Here I turn to the characterization of the following stages of the consequences of the disease:
1. The stage of the physical and mental immoral state of the patient.
2. Stage of nervous diseases and -
3. Stage of offensive psychoses.
It should only be clear to the reader that I am not establishing here the stages that are obligatory for each onanist, I am only pointing out the progress of the disease and the consequences that may arise in patients with the unceasing development of the defect.
In the first stage, i.e. in the physical and mental immoral state of the patient, we notice a dull look, lifeless eyes, apathy, fatigue, pallor of the face, anemia. Under sunken eyes - blue circles. Movements are lethargic, apathetic, in a word, a person changes dramatically in appearance, which takes on the appearance of an "older person". To this physical lowness, mental faculties are also added: mental abilities are dulled, memory weakens, absent-mindedness appears, and faith in oneself is lost. irritability, solitude, a purely feeling of loneliness - all this completely destroys the personality, plunging a person into horror.Requires proper education in order to return the patient to a normal state, arousing in him those vital forces that provide support and faith in his future.
At this time, it is necessary to stop the disease in the most decisive way, until the entire central nervous system of the patient is affected.
When an internal disease appears in an onanist, a disease of the central nervous system, then we have here the second stage of the disease.
This second stage leads first of all to a weakening of the muscles, and it is not difficult to imagine the state of a person in whom, in addition to the general disorder of the whole organism and oppression of the spirit, there is also disorder of the muscles. Dizziness appears, light phenomena appear before the eyes, the entire nervous system is tense, the abdominal organs are subject to changes and contractions incomprehensible to the patient. The heart works intermittently, the pulse quickens, breathing is difficult (although no pathological phenomena are observed in the circulatory organs and respiratory tract). If the patient experiences a period of growth, then the process of chlorosis occurs simultaneously. Appetite disappears, and the patient, regardless of the degree of his intelligence and development, turns into a stupid, little thinking person.
If we add to this the painful loss of semen, vaginismus in a woman and sexual impotence in men, then it will not be difficult to imagine the patient and his state of mind. The first period of the disease does not violate the almost normal functions of the genital area; however, in the second period, the patient has a difficult process: the erection slows down and the patient has to resort to the help of fantasy in order to achieve sexual arousal. In these people, after sexual arousal and the onset of an erection, ejaculation immediately appears. Gradually, this leads to the fact that even in the absence of an erection, ejaculation appears in persons of the second stage, which becomes all the more painful and painful, since it mostly appears in society, in the presence of many people and comes so quickly that the patient does not have time to bow and retire.
Involuntary ejaculation, which usually occurs only at night, has a destructive effect on the psyche and physical condition of a person. This functional disorder leads to neuralgia in the genital area, thighs and lumbar vertebrae. The picture is complemented by damage to the urinary tract, incontinence or retention of urine, pain and pain during urination.
The physical development of the disease in females entails anemia, pale infirmity and a general breakdown. Diseases of the ovaries in young girls also occur to some extent due to frequent masturbation. To be more convincing that this is so, I will point out the case when, after marriage, these pains completely ceased in many girls.
Mental development is expressed in them in the weakening of memory, stupidity, forgetfulness, increased susceptibility, which easily excites fantasy, and so on. Here are two stages that appear in patients in extremely diverse ways. During this second period, there are cases of a sudden cessation of onanism, which is difficult to explain from a medical point of view: is this the result of internal work on oneself or a consequence of any other reasons or, finally, that the patient’s physical and mental state does not give him opportunity to continue masturbation.
The third stage - the stage of offensive psychoses - is expressed in the weakening of all mental abilities that suppress the brain activity of a person and deprive him of self-control. In these cases, patients develop mild psychoses: the noblest inclinations disappear, pangs of conscience arise, the process of spiritual oppression continues, and if, in addition, the patient is possessed by a nervous predisposition, then he comes to the deepest inner tragedy.
Lowering the moral qualities of a person, i.e. his moral principles and the violation of character are the undoubted consequences of onanism; first of all, it is necessary to develop in a person the concept of good and evil, of sincerity and truth. In a word, it is necessary to raise the moral state of a person to such a height that would allow him to look at his vice as an immoral act, the mind must raise its voice and force a person to work on himself.
Under other conditions, the masturbator becomes spineless, his actions are completely arbitrary, he is not responsible for his actions, he shows stupidity, and all his topics revolve exclusively around questions of sex.
Masturbation cannot help but affect the family and even all of humanity. In our social system, when a person lives not only his personal life, his inclinations towards good or bad habits cannot but influence the environment. However, I believe that the question of the immediate danger to the family is somewhat exaggerated. Indirect dangers to others should also fade into the background. The well-known researcher Peter Frank testifies that onanists burden all mankind with their existence, that they cannot give anything to either society or the environment in which they move, and therefore, in some cases, they should even be feared. Frank built his conclusions in such a way that he wanted to involve the state in the fight against this evil. I believe that he exaggerated too much the importance of masturbators for the environment and I think that logically I will open my thought correctly: for if we assume that masturbators are so dangerous for the family and others, then with the observations that we have, we must consider that one subject is dangerous for another, and that we are gradually in the sphere of mutual dangerous clashes of people and passions. The position defended by Frank is not humane, and I would say anti-social, since, on the one hand, it can lead to the complete contempt of onanists who would have to be looked at as lepers. Tissot testifies that onanists lose the concept of natural pleasures during intercourse (he observed this phenomenon more often among women). According to Rousseau, the natural pleasures of love cause complete indifference among onanists, and they prefer to the very bed of marriage to indulge in this korok, rather than live the normal act of copulation.
Consequently, Tissot came to the conclusion that masturbation keeps many in the position of perpetual bachelors. This opinion is supported by Prof. Alibert, who reports a case of such a great predilection in a patient for onanism, that natural intercourse disgusted him, and women never aroused this man.
I personally attribute this phenomenon rather to perversions of the sexual state and, perhaps, to the attraction of the sexes of the same name, but I can in no way agree with the conclusions of Tissot and Alibert.
In addition, I doubt that masturbation could give the same experience as natural copulation, because the instant gratification that immediately occurs with masturbation cannot be compared with the act of pleasure that a person receives from normal copulation. The duration of the process of onanism, i.e. moment of onset of ejaculation, I strongly deny. Only in people with great will, who know how to regulate the process of ejaculation, I allow in extremely rare cases a long process of manipulation without an immediate onset of ejaculation. I apply this to people who have mental abilities, i.e. reason prevails over everything else, and these subjects should be rewarded with great talent and good imagination. Nature indicates the absolutely correct paths that humanity should follow in sexual relations, while masturbation is an unnatural act and harms society by the very fact that it undermines the physical and mental functions of a person as a member of society and family Our youth would certainly be stronger, more spiritual and stronger if they were delivered from this vice.
From this point of view, masturbation even poses a danger, and I understand why Burdak claims that masturbation is a "crime of the human race", and in the opinion of another scientist, "neither war, nor smallpox, nor plague, nor other disasters can give humanity such unfortunate consequences, like onanism, which is a devastating fact for mankind. The epidemic nature of such a phenomenon is threatening for mankind. So does Paris.
Roleder G. Masturbation
This manual will allow you to learn how to save your sexual energy (not lose semen during orgasm), be able to direct it in your body to those organs that need healing. You will also learn how to experience multiple orgasms.
Saving sexual energy is necessary to prolong life in the body in which we live. Our ancestors, the Slavs and Aryans, knew this very well and taught children from childhood how to control the sexual energy inside their bodies.
This manual contains a minimum theories and maximum practices.
practices very effective and can have a profound and fruitful impact on your health and sex life.
Caveats: If you have high blood pressure, a sick heart, or a weak body, you should not overwork yourself. Practice should be fun.
Introduction
First, let's clarify what we will practice and why?
multiple orgasm it means to direct your sexual energy through the central channel in the spine and experience bliss not only with the lower chakras, but also with the upper ones. When we experience multiple orgasm sexual energy does not go outward (ejaculation), but rises up the central channel, saturating the brain, then descends through the anterior channel to the area just below the navel (center of the body), saturating all organs and accumulating there.
Theory and practice
finger lock
This method is good for beginners who do not yet feel the energy in their body and cannot control it. By having sex and applying this method during orgasm, you will easily be able to save the seed and, accordingly, your energy. Orgasm will be experienced as usual, but the first times may be uncomfortable.
Be sure to retract your testicles after applying this method and keep them retracted for 5 minutes, this is necessary so that the seminal fluid does not stagnate in the urogenital ducts.
Did you know that orgasm and ejaculation are completely separate phenomena?
In order to have multiple orgasms and still not lose your seed, you need to know the basics of your anatomy. Orgasm and ejaculation are completely separate phenomena.
Physiologically, orgasm is the contraction and pulsation that most men feel in their penis, prostate, and pelvic region.
Ejaculation- it's just a reflex that occurs at the base of the spine and culminates in the eruption of the seed.
PC muscle
PC muscle largely determines your sexual health. Rooted in this muscle are five to eight centimeters of your penis, and the stronger it is, the stronger the erection, the deeper the orgasms, and the more effective the containment of ejaculation.
PC muscle- this is the same muscle that you use when holding back urination when you can not use the toilet. PC muscle responsible for rhythmic contractions in the pelvis and anus during orgasm.
"If a man increases the strength of his PC muscles, he will be able to understand how to acquire the ability to multiple orgasm and how to separate orgasm and ejaculation.
The easiest way to find your PC muscle is to stop urination when the pelvis is compressed while going to the toilet. With a strong PC muscle you will be able to stop urinating in the middle and then start again. If this is difficult for you, it means that your muscle is weak.
Exercise for the development of the PC muscle
Do this exercise in the morning after waking up and in the evening before going to bed, if you wish, you can do it at any time, without limiting yourself. Of course, the muscles can get sore, as always happens after constant exertion. Do not strain yourself too much, increase the number and pace gradually.
When you train well, you will be able to tighten the PC muscle during orgasm and keep the seminal flow.
Energy in our body
Our energy body is made up of 72,000 channels that intertwine to form knots called chakras. Energy (prana) moves through the channels. Of these 72,000 channels, we are interested in the most important channel, the central one, which is located from the beginning of the coccyx to the top of the head, where the hair is twisted into a spiral. It is through this channel that we need to direct sexual energy. The central channel is connected to all seven main chakras, so when we lift the energy up, we will experience an orgasm with all seven chakras, and not two as it usually happens.
The figure shows the chakras and the central channel.
Seven chakras (muladhara - in the coccyx, svadhisthana - in the genital area, manipura - the navel, anahata - the center of the chest, vishuddha - the throat, ajana - the center between the eyebrows and sahasrara - the crown)
In order to learn how to consciously raise your sexual energy, you need to master the practice "raise-lower fire". This practice clears the central channel through which we will direct the sexual energy upwards.
Raising and lowering the fire
Then the fire starts to rise again. This is one cycle.
Repeat 30 to 50 cycles.
Need to do 10,000 cycles(within two years), which will allow you to master this practice and feel well all the subtle processes that occur in the energy body.
Sexual arousal and sexual energy
Those who know how to control their arousal easily experience multiple orgasms without reaching ejaculation.
There are four stages of arousal:
On first stage, the penis begins to lengthen, but does not yet rise.
On the second it begins to expand and rises, but does not harden yet (at this stage it is still difficult to insert into the vagina).
On third stage, it rises completely and solidifies, but is not yet warmed up.
On the fourth stage, it becomes very hard and hot, while the testicles are drawn into the body and go into a state of maximum readiness for ejaculation.
Relaxing the breath and bringing the sexual energy up, away from the penis, will help you stay in the third or early fourth stage, just below the point of no return.
In order to control your arousal and learn how to experience multiple orgasms, you must first learn to control your breathing.
By learning to slow down and deepen your breathing, you can control your arousal and enjoy orgasms without ejaculating.
Deep, or abdominal breathing important not only for the management of arousal, but also for the health of the whole organism as a whole.
"Abdominal Breathing for Men"
To experience multiple orgasms, you must be able to stop instantly, breathe deeply, and contract your PC muscle to prevent ejaculation.
Sacral pump and cranial pump
The contents and protection of your spinal column and head is the very heart of your nervous system. The softening pad for it is cerebrospinal fluid, "brain" for the head and "spinal" for the vertebrae. This liquid, as it turned out, is set in motion by two pumps. One of them is located in the sacrum and is known as sacral pump. The other, located in the region of the upper neck and head, is cranial pomp. Many people who have run these pumps report feeling a "big bubble" of energy moving up and down the spine as the energy rises.
Taoists belong to sacrum how to pomp, which allows you to keep moving sexual energy coming from scrotum, and transform it in the process of movement. It is like a road station that purifies the energy circulating in the body. If the hole in sacrum blocked, then life force cannot enter into it and flow to supreme center.
The skull has long been considered by the Taoists as the main water pump providing energy circulation from the bottom centers to the top. Cranial movement is responsible for the production and circulation of the cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord and for normal energy distribution throughout the body. In Taoist improvement of sexual energy pelvic and urinary diaphragm, sacrum and cranial pump are essential for assisting movement sexual energy up to higher centers.
Force Constipation - Solitary Practice
When you are well trained with this exercise, you can use its variant during intercourse. The power lock method is performed without a partner as a daily exercise. The method is best for building up force in the perineum to seal the seminal fluid.
In the exercise power constipation“we excite the sex organ, the hot energy that is in the seminal duct. This heat is generated by the movement of millions of spermatozoa. This energy is more explosive, more difficult to control, and is always looking for the most direct way out into a colder environment. For most men, the path of least resistance is through the penis. For those who have mastered the practice of raising energy up, the easiest way is to go to the higher centers (chakras) of the body. But in order to prevent leakage through the penis and to direct the sexual energy into the spine and other higher parts of the body, it will take a lot of practice to control PC muscle.
There are four levels of power constipation practice:
In this exercise, you must excite your penis to a level corresponding to approximately 90% of the level of orgasmic ejaculation. Don't go beyond the point of no return, otherwise you won't have the spermatic energy to practice for a while. When you master force constipation, you will be able to more accurately determine the proximity of the approach to ejaculation and stop at 98 or 99 percent. Rub the head of the penis until an erection occurs. When you feel an orgasm approaching, stop stimulation and do the force lock method three to nine times, or do it until the erection stops. This counts as one exercise. Repeat this procedure - stimulate the penis to an erection, and then perform locking until the erection decreases - 3-9-18-36 times in one sitting.
This practice has perfect results. If, as a result of its use, you have acquired complete control over your sexual organs, then you will naturally have complete control over them during sexual intercourse. I recommend doing this exercise up to ten thousand times in order to master the control of the sexual organs to perfection, although some will naturally master all this much faster if they have already trained their mind through yoga, meditation or other similar disciplines. If you are not involved in the daily exercise, I recommend that you do some warm-up and stretching exercises before practicing power locking. This raises the tone of the energy in your organs and makes it easier to feel your internal energy, thus speeding up the process of mastering your sexual energy.
Practice Force Constipation Step by Step
1. Sitting position, feet flat on the floor, wide leg pants or topless. Stimulate your penis to an erection. Center your attention on your sexual organs and on the expansion of energy in your penis and scrotum.
2.
When you are close to orgasm, inhale deeply through your nose. Clench both fists at the same time, grab the “claws” of your toes into the floor so that your feet feel like a vacuum pump sucking the floor. At the same time, clench your teeth, squeeze the cranial pump at the back of your neck, and press your tongue hard against your palate. Inhale again and pull up the entire genito-anal region, concentrating on the perineum, on the urogenital diaphragm, and especially on the penis. By squeezing all the muscles as much as possible, draw the energy from the penis into the perineum. Holding your breath and fully tensing all your muscles, slowly count to nine. When you feel short of breath, exhale and relax all the muscles in your body. You can feel how the energy is bursting in all directions, especially in the genital area.
After doing this exercise for one to two weeks, you will really start to feel the contraction of the muscles pulling your penis up and in. You will feel that the anus is, as it were, super-tightly closed. Unless otherwise indicated, all breathing should be done through the nose. Nasal breathing provides better control of the inhaled air. The nose filters and warms the air and gives out vitality of a well-balanced quality. When exhaling, the whole body should relax. Let all tension flow out of you, as if you were in meditation.
Inhale again, tighten your muscles and draw up the energy from the genital area, holding it at the perineum. Holding her near the crotch has great importance. If you relax your attention, the hot energy will sink down into the genitals or out into the penis. If you release the energy, it will sink down and you will have to start all over again. Do this for at least one week.
3.
Start by arousing the penis. As you inhale, clench your fists, feet, neck, and jaws. “Pull” up the sexual organs, diaphragm, anus and especially the penis, pull the hot energy up into the perineum and continue to pull it up to the coccyx, just above the lower end of the spine. Feel it enter the slit in the sacrum.
Activate your sacral pump by arching your lower back outward to straighten your spine. This will make raising the energy easier. Hold the energy in the sacrum, continue to inhale and draw, inhale and draw sexual energy from the genitals until you feel that the erection is weakening. Sometimes this may require three to nine breaths with a successive increase in muscle contraction. A tighter squeezing of the buttocks can help you drive the energy into the sacrum. When you start to feel short of breath, exhale. Then relax and allow the sacrum and neck to return to their original position, which helps activate the two pumps.
If during the exercise power constipation If you also practice raising and lowering the fire (or if you have already opened your central channel and learned to feel and direct energy through it), then it will be much easier for you to force the hot sexual energy into the sacrum. Otherwise, this area is somewhat difficult to work through, as spermatic energy is denser than other types of energy and must be pumped upwards. This is where the sacral pump comes into play. Some people experience pain, like pins and needles. Don't worry if this happens to you at the time when the hot sexual energy enters the sacral opening. If this bothers you, you can help the energy pass through the coccyx by massaging the area with a silk cloth from time to time.
4. If you have gone up through the sacrum, spend the next week drawing the energy up to point 11 on the spine, opposite the solar plexus. Repeat the same procedure - stimulating the penis, tensing the muscles and inhaling. Pump the energy up to the perineum, to the sacrum, and then to the T-11 point, where you should hold it until you feel that this area is filled with energy. When you feel the energy itself, that area is actually open. Again, since the spermatic energy is denser, you must accommodate it by arching the splint outward to straighten it out, which increases the suction action and allows a freer upward passage.
5. Your next stopping point is the Jade Pillow. This place is located at the back of the head, between point C-1 and the base of the skull. Do the same as described above - continue to draw energy up to the perineum, sacrum, T-11 point and further to the base of the skull. The cranial pump can become energized and initially pulsates wildly when energy first flows through it.
6. The next stopping point for energy is at the top of the head. When pulling the energy up, repeat the same process of arousing and calming the erection. Make sure you pull your chin in slightly, clench your skull to activate the upper cranial pump, and keep your upper spine straight. Keep pulling the energy up to the top of your head until the erection of your penis weakens.
An exercise " Power Constipation” Gradually trains your mind to draw sexual energy into higher centers without muscle tension
When the energy finally enters your head, you will get a whole new feeling of warmth and tingling from it. The usual immediate reaction to this is a feeling of well-being and amazing freshness. Some people claim that they begin to think more clearly and increase their creativity; they may be in a state where they can easily automatically transform energy into expanded consciousness. This spermatic energy is later, on the spiritual levels of Taoist yoga, transformed into primordial energy, pure life force. As we get older, we consume so much of our brain energy that the streams of it gradually begin to dry up, leaving an empty cavity in the head. Power constipation allows you to transport sexual energy to fill this cavity with it; instead of storing it in the scrotum, it is stored in higher areas of the body and brain so that it can be used directly. The Taoists consider sexual energy to be a creative energy that can be transmuted into any part of our vital organs, glands, or brain.
Practice force constipation until you can draw sexual energy from the penis to the head in one pass. At first, you will only be able to move from one station to another. Later, the spinal canal (central canal) will feel looser. Eventually you will be able to mentally enter both the testicles and the top of your head and move the sexual energy from the testicles all the way to the top of your head. It will take some time to really feel the sexual energy during practice. Do not rush this event, do not chase after it. Let the pumps always work during inhalations and exhalations. Gradually use the mental rather than the physical pull of energy more and more. Let the feeling of energy be your guide.
7.
When you feel the energy filling the brain, concentrate on the point between the eyebrows and bring it down through the nose and palate and down the tongue to the throat center, heart center, solar plexus and finally to the navel. This circulation is facilitated by the internal pressure created during force constipation. You are pushing the energy from your lower torso into and up your spine. At the same time, you are pushing energy down from your upper body, maintaining that pressure for as long as possible. As you exhale, relax your entire body completely. The natural direction of energy is to move in a circle up the back of your body and down the front of your body to your navel.
Continue this cyclic movement of energy until your erection weakens. At the very beginning, and especially if you are very aroused sexually, it may take three to nine such cycles. But after some time of practice, one such circle will suffice.
8.
Perform 36 full contractions in the morning and evening. If you have already mastered this, then for a normal person, 36 repetitions in the morning and evening will not require much effort. If you are very aroused, then you will need fewer repetitions, since each erection will last longer. With this intensity of training, you will easily develop the muscle tone necessary for effective energy retention in a month or two. How fast you progress is irrelevant; it is important that you progress constantly. A reliable minimum should be one cycle per day - just to maintain the habit. If you happen to see a beautiful woman or a photograph during the day that excites you, you can force-lock in an instant and pull the energy up.
The preferred time to do these exercises is from 11 pm to 1 am, or from 11 am to 1 pm. During these periods, the flow of energy yin changes to flow Jan, and vice versa. The sun starts to rise after midnight and starts to go down after noon. Energy flows very well during these time intervals. If you can't practice during these hours, don't despair: you will definitely make progress if you practice daily.
9.
One final clarification to remember is that the lower contraction is not concentrated in the stomach or in the abdominal cavity. We focus on the front of the lower torso—the penis, perineum, and urogenital diaphragm. Our goal is to train these muscles in such a way that they, remaining motionless, block off the seed river like a dam. Then we can reverse the direction of the flow of this river and saturate the body with strengthening energy.
Conducting energy from the upper and lower parts of the body towards its center pours energy into the navel. As the seminal fluid (like blood) tends to follow the energy, the navel actually grabs the seminal fluid and pushes it up the spine up the upper body. So contract your urogenital diaphragm as if you were holding a full bladder. Lock the passage so tightly that not a single inner impulse breaks through the protective ring of muscles.
Security measures when performing practices
1.
During these exercises, never lie flat on your back. The energy can get stuck in the chest, causing extreme excitability and excess pressure on the heart.
2.
When practicing, never lie on your left side. It also puts pressure on the heart and fills it with energy.
3.
When lying down, never place anything under you. This will distort the flow of energy and can cause back pain.
If any of the problems listed in points 1-3 occur, release the energy safely using the exercise to reset high pressure
. After a week of doing this exercise, all pain and inconvenience should disappear.
4.
If possible, practice on an empty stomach. In any case, do this at least an hour after eating.
5.
During practice, be dressed or wrap yourself in a light blanket. If the exercises are performed correctly, you will sweat and may catch a cold if you are not covered. After practicing, change your clothes to remove the damp cloth from yourself. There should be a weak flow of clean air in the room. Avoid any drafts and wind. The wind tends to blow out energy. It can easily make your energy cold.
7.
Do not breathe through your mouth during these exercises. When you breathe through your nose, it is easier to control the flow of air. Breathing in through the nose charges the air and strengthens the brain.
8.
Do not worry if in the first days of practice you do not see tangible results. It takes a different time for heat to start flowing upward from the testicles.
9.
You must develop the capacity for intense concentration. Keep the mind from wandering. Let your thoughts and images leave you without accompanying them. Empty the vessel of the mind from thoughts: a powerful energy will rush into the void. Your ability to concentrate will improve significantly if you persevere in it. Learn Meditation raise fire lower and do it immediately after practice power constipation.
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During practice, close your eyes and follow the paths of energy. The mind should not wander into thoughts or fantasies, but should strictly follow the course of the energy. This may seem very difficult. You will be surprised how quickly you can become sensitive to your own energy. When you feel these energies within you, you will know exactly what we mean. Since the energy flows naturally, it guides your mind in the same way that the mind guides its driving force.
11.
One who suffers from constipation should practice in the morning, at the hour of active bowel activity. These exercises will greatly help to get rid of this problem.
12.
In order for the method Power constipation was effective, you should not ejaculate for thirty days. After an orgasm with ejaculation, the body must again accumulate sufficient energy pressure in the testicles. If you are not experienced enough to retain semen during intercourse, abstain from sex during these thirty days. In this way, you will experience the full power of this method.
I certainly do not oppose your desire to have sexual intercourse. I only warn you that if you lose your seed, your progress will be slower. Learn to sacrifice the pleasure of ejaculation now for greater pleasure in the future. If you practice these exercises skillfully, you can more quickly master the method of retaining the vital seed during lovemaking.
High Pressure Relief Exercise
After practicing Power constipation within two to six weeks, some with high blood pressure report a large influx of energy
to the head. They feel pressure in the head because the blood follows the flow of vital energy upwards. This is no different from one of the milder symptoms of the “Kundalini Syndrome”, in which the released energy moves uncontrollably through the body.
If you suffer from high blood pressure and do not practice meditation raising and lowering the fire(described above), which evenly distributes energy throughout the body, you can meditate on two points to reduce excess pressure. This is the point mingmen
on the spine, directly opposite the navel (between points T-1 and T-13), and the point yongquan
(point K-1) on the arches of your feet.
To locate a point mingmen
gird around the waist with twine as a belt. Make its plane exactly horizontal and set it at the level of the navel. Dot mingmen
lies at the intersection of the string with the spine. If you have a large hanging belly, then take measurements from the place where the navel was before the belly drops. If you lean back at the waist, this point will feel like a hole in your spine.
Another point yongquan
, is on the foot. If you clench your toes, then this will be the deepest central point on the instep of the arch of the foot.
Once you have found this point on both legs, tie small prickly balls to them, such as a prickly chestnut or a common tree seed pod. Place both hands on your back and press hard on the spinal ball, while concentrating on the point mingmen
. It will draw energy and blood there.
Once you feel the energy flowing into mingmen
, direct it down along the spine and legs to the point yongquan
. Press the ball so that you can feel the spine very clearly. In difficult cases, in order to drive energy to a point mingmen
and then bring her in yongquan
may take one to two months.
If blood flows too much into the head during or after Power constipation, let the energy out. Unbalanced energy will flow out of the body through these two points.
Summing up
First that we need to learn how to use the method finger lock, in order to be able to have sex and not lose the energy of the seed. And we also learn breathe properly and use it in sex.
Second we try every day to exercise our PC muscle and do 30-50 cycles a day raising and lowering the fire(if it is not possible to do so much, then we reduce the time of practice to what is acceptable for us).
Third do solo practice Power constipation optional, recommended daily. As this practice gains momentum, you will be able to contain your semen during sex and direct the energy upward.
Good luck in practice!
