The first thing that must be done is to give up this practice. This is not so easy, but requires time and careful living to be able to do so. The diet must be simple, sustaining, but unstimulating. Brown bread must always be eaten. Exercise must be taken regularly and systematically, all kinds are good, be it rowing, riding, walking, running, cycling, etc., etc. If not engaged in laborious work, then two hours must be taken for the health’s sake. If it cannot be got during the day, it must be taken in the morning and evening before breakfast and after business. My further advice is, never be alone if possible, as solitude is an incentive to this habit. Go amongst people, or engage yourself with some hobby or fad. Get all the pure air you can, and make it a rule to sleep with your bedroom window open at least six inches all the year round. Sponge the body all over with lukewarm water, and have a good rub with a rough towel after. Do not lie in bed too long, but try to get up when you awake. Wellington’s advice on this point is good: “ When you turn over it is time to turn out.” Six hours’ rest will suffice if you are living naturally, but seven or eight may be taken. All intoxicants, as cider, beer, wines, and spirits, must be given up, as must the use of tobacco, by those who desire to overcome this habit. Impure drugs and quack remedies I only mention to condemn, as they cannot assist one to overcome it. Keep away from theatres, music-halls, or places where a free exposition of legs and bosom is the chief attraction. Try to keep the mind free from sensual ideas. Do not read prurient literature, nor look at indecent photos, and avoid filthy talk if you want to overcome the habit. In some cases it may even be advisable to be circumcised, and so lessen the irritation which a long foreskin causes. In severe cases the hands must be tied in such a way that they cannot reach the sexual organs, until the person can get into good bodily health. If these rules of health and diet are carried out I will promise my readers improved health and spirits, and an increase of will-power to overcome this secret and harmful vice.
The next thing for you to do is to realize and assert your manhood and stop the practice and indulgence which has brought on this trouble, and made you a victim and sufferer of these terrible diseases.
Have an understanding with yourself. Say to yourself, that you are from now on never going to be guilty of perverted indulgence or self-defilement. Repeat this to yourself each day, each hour, each minute, each second, each breath; breathe it into your soul. Let it become part of your life, sleeping or awake. Always say and think to yourself that you have, that you most certainly will stop this unnatural indulgence and habit, AND YOU WILL.
If you wish to regain your sexual strength, the writer most certainly wishes to help you do so, but you must, first of all, make up your mind to enter into a common effort with work for your cure. In other words, you must make up your mind to follow the directions faithfully and heed the warnings given here. If you do this you will be more than pleased with the results obtained. It should be remembered that Sexual weakness in itself is a very intractable disease, and when of long standing, the bladder and kidneys may be affected. This will, of course, retard the cure, and not getting immediate results, you may be tempted to discontinue and to abandon it just when it has begun to do you good.