Loathing themselves, and finding the trouble and expense of treatment irksome, they long for the day when they can consider themselves cured, which they do when the visible signs of disease have disappeared. Diseased men get reckless in the indulgence of their passions. Not only have they lost their morale, strong in the belief that there is little more for them to acquire, but also the inflammation in the deep urethra, especially of the caput gallinaginis, morbidly stimulates their passions, so that these men are most highly dangerous to human society, being in fact poisonous men seeking to poison others.
Excessively lustful, and governed by no moral restraint, they actively seek to gratify their passions at the expense of any available woman's health and life, and at the expense of those foolish men who follow in their tracks.
If mothers could only appreciate that such men eagerly seek for invitations to balls, where they can ideally feast their sexual fancies in the midst of so much that is at best unquestionably voluptuous, they would exercise a far greater caution in making out their lists of invitations. If one will write down the names of the men at any large ball, and scratch off all whom he believes to be unfit to come into close contact with his own sister, he will find an object lesson of significant import and much food for reflection.
Fallen men not only acquire the loathsome venereal diseases themselves, but also transmit them to prostitutes, to their wives, families and posterity. They are enemies to society, and can offer no excuse which is not characteristic of an irresponsible selfishness. With darkened intelligence, and by continual stimulation of their sexual passions with erotic thoughts, sensual conversation and literature, and by rehearsal of lewd stories, they produce in themselves, and in others who fall under their noxious influence, an unconquerable passion. The secretion of the testicles is absolutely the only hope of the future of the race, and yet, if wrongfully used, it is so potent that it may figuratively be classed along with the secretions of the poison fangs of venomous reptiles.
Whether the semen belong to a healthy or diseased man, it is nevertheless, when unphysiologically used, a concentrated fluid of more venom than any other chemical product in the world. If it be the semen of a syphilitic, then it is without exception the acme of all poisons, which, instead of exercising a rapidly lethal effect like the cobra's or rattlesnake's venom, inflicts its fatally pernicious influence on women and on children who were better far unborn.
Figuratively, a poison is anything noxious or destructive to health or morality", and a venom also is not only actively injurious to health, but, metaphorically, anything that poisons, blights, cankers, or embitters. So without hyperbole every man who violates womankind unlawfully, without sharing the consequences of intercourse, is literally a highly poisonous and venomous animal.
A REFORMED PROFLIGATE MAKES A POOR HUSBAND.
Many an innocent wife is dragged down by the grossness of her husband's nature, and suffers with unmerited disease which has been given to her through his treachery and falseness. This occurs as frequently among the upper as among the lower classes; but wives do not often appreciate the nature of their illnesses, this being necessarily concealed by the physician in the interests of family peace.
It is a commonly expressed sentiment that it is just as well for a man to sow his wild oats when he is young, for, if he does not, he may never get over the tendency, and perhaps sow them after marriage. Nothing could be more pernicious than such a proposition; for a reformed profligate makes the poorest kind of a husband often being corrupt in body, and perhaps having imperious mental concepts which we will call brain stains. Society errs in recognizing a necessity to sin; for the consequences of a surrender to vice are remote and lasting, on account both of the physical harm done, and of the blight of licentiousness which settles on the consciousness and inner nature of the individual.