Most every physician and professional man has during his career seen the terrible results and effects of sexual weakness and self-abuse, and, pitiful to relate, many cases are the result of ignorance of the horrible effects of this abuse of the sex power.
In consequence of the same the writer feels it his duty to show the young men of this country the awful results and effects of the sin of self-defilement, that filthy and unnatural habit, by and through which hundreds of young men and women defile their souls and bodies by yielding to their passions and sensual thoughts, thinking that because they commit this act in secret or privacy they can escape the all-seeing eye of God, and procure unto themselves those conditions which nature and God has only intended to be participated in a legitimate way.
Nature will not permit man or woman to outrage its laws or defile their souls and bodies without exacting and demanding of them a penalty for their sin, and the result or penalty of self-defilement is without question one that is most awful and terrible in its nature.
The penalty for self-abuse and excesses brings to the victim conditions of mind and body that are such that he can scarcely endure them and many times he seeks relief in suicide or his mind and body become so weakened and exhausted he either fills a premature grave or goes insane, for his mentality becomes disordered and the organs of his body give away to disease and he at last perishes in the fury and flames of abnormal passions which have got far beyond his control.