Sexual Indulgence Research Articles

<강릉매화타령>의 反축제적 성격 연구

<Gangneung Maehwa-Taryeong>, one of the twelve renowned Pansori performances from the 19th century, has been known as a work that warns against sexual indulgence by punishing the character Golsaengwon, who is obsessed with sexual desire. However, the purpose of Golsaengwon’s punishment remains unclear. Additionally, the relationships between the characters involved in the deception are loosely constructed, which raises questions about the narrative structure aligned with the theme. Furthermore, it is essential to explore why this work eventually loses its identity as a Pansori. This study analyzes the relationships among the characters within the narrative progression of <Gangneung Maehwa-Taryeong> and examines their characteristics based on the festive nature of Pansori. Unlike traditional Pansori, which aims to realize the ideals of freedom and equality, <Gangneung Maehwa-Taryeong> focuses on the unilateral degradation and ridicule of the protagonist, Golsaengwon. This work fails to embody the core principles of grotesque realism in Pansori's aesthetic style, such as degradation, materiality or corporeality, and joyful relativity. It also fails to establish equal relationships among the characters, ultimately losing its inherently festive nature. In the narrative, Golsaengwon is subjected to one-sided degradation, and the discrimination imposed upon him violates the egalitarian principles underlying laughter in Pansori. Moreover, the governor’s authoritative commands and the suppression of laughter repress the essential freedom of the festival, reducing the work to a monophonic space. This anti-festive structure played a significant role in <Gangneung Maehwa-Taryeong> losing its identity as a Pansori, leaving it as a work skewed toward the pursuit of pleasure derived solely from the sexualized corporeal imagery. Consequently, <Gangneung Maehwa-Taryeong> lost the fundamental aesthetic qualities of Pansori.

Spenser’s Youth

AbstractEpics modeled on the Odyssey typically include a version of Homer’s Circe episode. Edmund Spenser’s variant, the Bower of Bliss, is unusual for ending in physical violence so pronounced that many readers have taken against its putative hero, Sir Guyon. This essay reviews the role of magic in similar episodes to show the enormity of Spenser’s seemingly conservative storytelling. It also defends Spenser’s hero from charges of intemperance and immaturity. The question of intemperance stems from misunderstanding Aristotle. That of immaturity is more complicated. In the economy of justice, youth counteracts complacency. One of Guyon’s prototypes, the biblical king Josiah, is an example. Spenser pictures all his heroes as young, and growing up is part of his design for the epic as a whole. His attitude, though, is not condescending. The danger of sexual indulgence, which Guyon’s critics sometimes dismiss, is one that the epic tradition took seriously and that Spenser himself connected with the recent downfall of public figures.

COVID 19 lockdown related teenage pregnancy: Concept analysis

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health is an important aspect of Public health that may be overlooked in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic (Murewanhema, 2020). The pandemic therefore, directly exposes adolescent girls to increased risks of unintended pregnancies, abortions, early marriages, sexually transmitted infections including HIV and Human Papilloma Virus (Murewanhema, 2020), despite the introduction of HIV and AIDS Reproductive Health and Life Skills Education in the schools curricula as early as 1993 in Zimbabwe. According to (World Vision Zimbabwe, 2020), there has been an increased incidence of teenage pregnancies and early marriages in Zimbabwe and the figures have doubled since the beginning of the COVID19 lockdown. This then has necessitated the need to obtain data that will help in the analysis of the COVID19 lockdown related teenage pregnancies so as to assist policy makers to come up with strategies and a contextualised policy to help curb an upsurge of teenage pregnancy during a crisis or a lockdown; and also informed by their understanding of sexual rights. Adolescence is a period which could be characterised by deficiency needs; of bodily comforts in a deprived environment; of insecurity and loss of guidance in dealing with lack of finances and poverty; of isolation, loneliness and neglect; and psychosocially, of battling with low self-esteem and fear of rejection, and all these emanate from basic needs as espoused by Maslow (Huitt 2017). These needs influence critical thinking processes required for decision making and acquisition of negotiation skills. Methodology: This concept analysis of COVID19 lockdown related teenage pregnancies was done following the Walker & Avant (2011) 8 step model. The literature exploration was conducted in 10 days and 20 articles were selected at the initial search and only 9 articles were reviewed for analysis. The Google scholar and PubMed search engines were used to evaluate the journals and papers. Results: The findings were that literature reported an upsurge in teenage pregnancies; and concentrated on predisposing factors to teenage pregnancy during the COVID19 lockdown period and in this concept analysis paper they are the antecedents of COVID19 lockdown related teenage pregnancy. The COVID 19 lockdown related adolescent pregnancy was defined as any pregnancy from a girl aged 19 years and below whose pregnancy occurred during the COVID19 lockdown period. Conclusion: In a bid to minimise the COVID19 lockdown related, teenage-pregnancy, there might be a requirement for adolescent girls to be empowered to manage change as they consider morality, legal and ethical behaviour ahead of instant physical gratifications, as sexual indulgence has penalties. Consequently, a knowledge gap has been created necessitating the exploration of lived experiences of these teenage girls so as to develop mitigation strategies and a policy that is evidence based to avoid an increase of these pregnancies during a lockdown period.

Role of current lifestyle to cause male infertility

Health of an individual is an outcome of good healthy lifestyle. Diet, sleep and sexual life are key factors in lifestyle which has major impact on human health. Ayurveda explained these three as ‘upastambha’. Changes in lifestyle with respect to diet, sleep and sexual indugence are found which affect potency of shukra dhatu and cause infertility in males. Shukra is said to be potent when its attributes are not affected and it has ability to reproduce. Dietary factors like cheese, paneer, yogurt etc, night wakefulness, excessive sexual indulgence are changes in new lifestyle which can help to change attributes of shukra. Diet, sleep and sexuality based on ayurvedic principles help to avoid damage to shukra dhatu and further avoids infertility.

『一片情』의 婚姻 딜레마

Various paradoxical means of narrative that questions the motivation of writing 『Yipianqing』, which is a sympathy towards women who are dissatisfied with their marriage life under the paradox of the marriage system, the equivocal conclusion on the unfaithful women, the hysterical obsession in defense against women"s adultery and the admittance of women"s lust and justification of affair at the same time, the setting of imputing all responsibilities of women"s affair and destruction of family to the man, and feeling serious fear of losing one"s face and life damage from the wife"s affair are the characteristics of『Yipianqing』 that differ from erotic novels, of the time. Such characteristics have a close correlation with the social atmosphere of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, when the prevalence of commercial economic development and prosperity of the city culture, the almighty dollar principle, and the extravagance are rampant in the overall society, resulting in perturbation of feudalist system and even destruction of ethical senses. Dissipated sex culture derived from the upper class deeply proliferated in the commoner"s life culture, and the Chinese society at the time resembled “an orgy of sexual indulgence”. Nevertheless, obsession with traditional values and orders coexisted as well. Various paradoxical narratives expressed by the author of 『Yipianqing』 are the aspect of Chinese social culture of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties , when the values of abstinence and self-indulgence coexisted to form a complex sex culture, and are reflected as complicated male psychology and marriage dilemma in 『Yipianqing』.

Affect of abjection in T. S. Eliot's the waste land

This paper deals with affect of abjection pervasive in modern people enunciated in T.S. Eliot's magnum opus The Waste Land (1922). This poem primarily enacts the poet's disgust with growing modernity of his time particularly relating to the declining of religion and the rise of sexual immorality. This research paper argues that this unhappiness swells in the force of disgust on the part of the poet at the immoral, unfulfilling sexual indulgence appearing repetitively in the text. It tries to unfold this disgust in terms of what Julia Kristeva calls the power (affect) of abjection. The assumption is that Eliot communicates his abjection through the tool of irony, which makes the readers be intensely aware of disgust at the soulless, mechanical sexual acts.

Sexual Ethics in Iranian Medicine

Context: Effect of sexual relations on mental and physical health has been the concern of the Iranian physicians, over a thousand years ago. Sexual ethics is one of the specific health topics of Iranian medicine archives. From the Iranian medicine point of view, because of different mental and physical differences in human, their sexual power and need for sex is different. It is necessary to observe the normal range, since the sexual indulgence causes different illnesses. Evidence Acquisitions: In Iranian medicine, different variables such as time, location, mental and physical situation, and also various forms of sex are discussed in sexual health. Safe sex not just reduces many mental disorders, but also prevents many neurological, digestive, urinary and genital disorders. Also, sexual indulgence is most harmful for health and causes stiffness, weakness and different diseases; therefore observing moderation in sex, according to the therapeutic characteristics and power, has been emphasized. Results: To have safe sex, it is necessary to consider time, mental, and physical status. Having sex when the stomach is full impairs digestion. Sexual relationship after heavy sports and severe emotional reactions such as anger or sadness, and after diarrhea or blood sampling is harmful. It has been recommended that having sex in temperate weather, and after evacuation of urine and feces, considering necessary arrangements, make the couple reach orgasm. Also, in the Iranian traditional medicine references, specific nutritional and health recommendations have been proposed for the sexually active people. Conclusions: Health care recommendations of Iranian physicians involve precious and new points for the updated scientific communities. Scientific revision of these recommendations can be promising for public health improvement.

From Birth Control to Sex Control: Unruly Young Women and the Origins of the National Abstinence-Only Mandate.

In the early 1980s, conservative politicians in the United States argued that the federal government was promoting promiscuity by providing teens with confidential access to government-funded family planning services. Claiming the problem was not that young women were getting pregnant but that they were having sex, they promised a new national policy-one that would stress self-discipline and family values over sexual indulgence. As argued in this paper, the resulting abstinence-only federal mandate both draws upon and reinforces traditional sexual scripts, which hold young women responsible for keeping male passion in check, thus selectively burdening them with the work of "doing abstinence."

A Testimonial Dinner for Joseph I. Breen

A Testimonial Dinner for Joseph I. Breen Thomas Doherty (bio) On the evening of November 3, 1954, at Chasen's, the storied Beverly Hills eatery ("where the stars dine"), a group of friends and colleagues gathered to say farewell to Joseph I. Breen on his retirement as head of the Production Code Administration (PCA), the in-house censorship arm of the Hollywood studio system. Soaked in cigarette smoke, bluff camaraderie, and misty-eyed nostalgia, the soiree enacted a masculine rite of passage from a bygone era—not a modern roast, where the insults and vulgarities fly, and certainly not a raucous "gentleman's club" outing to ogle pole dancers, but a more restrained and sentimental confab befitting the early Eisenhower era, with the boys—they were all boys—waxing nostalgic and expressing a mushy affection not suitable for the button-down workplace. Well lubricated with sentiment but not, surprisingly, libations, it was the final gathering of the men who patrolled the moral terrain of Hollywood cinema—a posse once tall in the saddle, now feeling the reins slipping from their hands. Having written a cultural biography of Breen and his tenure at the PCA, I knew about the testimonial dinner, but only lately did I learn that an audio recording of the evening existed, preserved on 78 rpm records and presented as a memento to Breen. 1 Hollywood insiders all, the celebrants enjoyed pro bono access to the sound equipment and technical expertise of the major studios. The gift was a suitable state-of-the-art media souvenir for a man who had himself shaped the art of Hollywood cinema. Shortly after my book was published, I got an e-mail from Timothy Fitzgerald, a California-based buyer and seller of rare books and other collectibles. Fitzgerald said that he was in possession of a recording of the evening, discovered after a friend had invited him to rummage through a box of old 78 rpm records stashed in a garage. Among the detritus, he came across a four-sided gem: two red vinyl ten-inch records in the original package sent by William Gordon, Universal Pictures Co. Inc., to Mr. Joseph I. Breen Jr., 7201 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, 46, California (via transportation). All four labels read "Banquet Tendered Joseph I. Breen at Chasen's Nov. 3 1954." Fitzgerald graciously duped me a copy on CD. He has since sold the original records to the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, where they may be accessed by scholars. Breen is a figure of some controversy in film studies, mainly for a series of anti-Semitic screeds he vented in private correspondence during the early 1930s. "These Jews seem to think of nothing but money making and sexual indulgence," he fumed in 1932 in a letter to the Reverend Wilfrid Parsons, SJ, editor of the Jesuit weekly America. "Ninety-five per cent of these folks are Jews of an Eastern European lineage. They are, probably, the scum of the scum of the earth." 2 That same year, to his friend and patron Martin J. Quigley, editor of the influential trade weekly Motion Picture Herald and coauthor of the Production Code, Breen also expressed his loathing for Hollywood Jewry. "The fact is these damn Jews are a dirty, filthy lot. Their only standard is the standard of the box-office. To attempt to talk ethical value to them is time worse than wasted." 3 No wonder that today, film historians routinely label Hollywood's censor an "extreme anti-Semite," a "rabid anti-Semite," and "notoriously anti-Semitic." 4 My own take was more nuanced. Breen wrote what he wrote, but he was also an early supporter of the Hollywood anti-Nazi League for the Defense of Democracy, the animating center for the town's anti-Nazi activism in the 1930s; a warm friend to Hollywood Jews such as the producers Sam Spiegel and Joseph Pasternak; and a vigilant expunger of any whiff of anti-Semitism on the Hollywood screen, particularly after World War II. At his funeral in 1965, several of his Jewish friends served as honorary pallbearers. Whatever the verdict on Breen's...

Challenging power and meaning: outlining the popular epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Rakai, Uganda, c. 1975–1990

This article traces the historical evolution of conditions that favoured the spread of HIV in Rakai district, Uganda, and the process of evolution of the local, popular epidemiology of HIV and AIDS. It argues that the HIV epidemic was made possible by economic and social disparities, which grew more pronounced since the mid-1970s as a result of economic decline, physical insecurity, and the disbanding of public services. The local constructions of AIDS in Rakai have changed and shifted according to the progress of the epidemic, eventually challenging the initial cultural construction of the disease, based on local notions about causality between disease and morality. The progress of the epidemic undermined the local intellectual authority (e.g. traditional healers, health workers, and religious leaders), creating a need to produce additional explanations of the disease. The concept of ‘Slim’ in Rakai emerged as a popular construct to denote the physical, psychological and social consequences of HIV disease. The concept reflects popular concerns over the outcomes of the epidemic rather than its cause, being more concerned about the fate of individuals and communities than about issues of morality. Later, the moral construction of ‘Slim’ that accompanied the biomedical categorisation of AIDS as a sexually transmitted disease made it appear as a disease of sexual indulgence and promiscuity. The bio-moral construction of ‘Slim’ was also challenged by local evangelical claims about the power of faith and morality to regenerate its ‘victims,’ something that biomedicine had not been able to provide. As the disease has become part of the social ecology of Rakai and the rest of Uganda, interpretations of it will continue to be challenged and reconstructed.

Darsie Latimer’s “Little Solidity,” or the Case for Homosexuality in Scott’s Redgauntlet

By the early 1820s Walter Scott had been sharply criticized for conjuring up conspicuously passive heroes for his tales, but that criticism did not prevent him from presenting his reading public with his most singularly submissive character, Darsie Latimer, in 1824’s Redgauntlet. In fact, Scott devotes considerable energy in the novel to the delineation of a particular breed of unmanliness, linking Darsie’s inertia with his unusually strong emotional attachment to a schoolmate, his peculiar fascination with strong men, and his marked awkwardness around eligible women his own age. I argue that the coalescing of such features in one character warrants consideration of Darsie as a type of homosexual—that is, a character marked not only by an orientation of desire toward one’s own sex but also by a litany of character traits (among them, in this case, self-doubt, self-consciousness, and irresolution) which were typically associated with this non-normative desire. After considering evidence from this novel as well as from diary entries that reveal Scott’s views on sodomy and on wayward passions, I re-examine the Foucaultian contention that the homosexual was a late-nineteenth-century invention which transformed the sodomite into a species. Scott’s Redgauntlet gives us reason to believe that the conception of such a species was in place by the late Romantic period and that it was possible to consider this character type as distinct from the sodomite insofar as the former designated a disposition rather than the implication of sexual indulgence.

Marriage, gender, and sex in a contemporary Chinese village

1. Theoretical Framework: Familism, Women's Liberation, and Autonomy 2. Baixiao Village: Past and Present Part I. Finding a Partner, Love, and Marriage 3. Marriage, Familism, and Autonomy 4. The Story of Uncle Qiu: The Dictates of the Parents, the Words of the Matchmaker 5. The Story of Zhichao: The Transition from Tradition to Modernity 6. The Story of Qiming: Marriage in the 1990s Part II. Tradition, Women, and the Interpretation of the Self 7. Review of the Research into Women in Chinese Villages 8. Wang Guizhen: Growing up Under the Reform and Opening-up Policy 9. A Female's Need for Fulfillment in the Eyes of Traditional Women Part III. Sex and Sex Trade Under the Reform and Opening-up Policy 10. Familial Culture, Gender Relationship, and Sexual Indulgence 11. Sex, Sex Trade, and Extra-marital Relationship in the Eyes of Men 12. Wealth, Materialism, and the Feminine Viewpoint 13. The Paradox of the Development in Baixiao Village 14. Reflections on Methodology Part IV. Revisit: Baixiao Village at the Turn of the Century 15. Baixiao Village at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century 16. Rural Political Reform: Baixiao Village Committee Election

Decreation

This essay in both literary criticism and negative theology treats three widely diverse cases of women who “had the nerve to enter a zone of absolute spiritual daring.” The three cases are of the poet Sappho (in seventh-century Greek antiquity), the mystic Margarite Porete (in fourteenth-century France), and the philosopher Simone Weil (in twentieth-century France). Each of them underwent “an experience of decreation, or so she tells us.” Decreation, which is Simone Weil’s coinage, is here defined as “an undoing of the creature in us—that creature enclosed in self and defined by self. But to undo self one must move through self to the very inside of its definition.” The audacious, unconventional spirituality of these women led society to “pass judgments on the authenticity” of their “ways of being.” Weil has been termed “neurotic, anorectic, pathological, sexually repressed or fake” by many readers of both her work and the biographies written about her. Marguerite Porete was condemned at trial for being not only a heretic but also a pseudo-mulier—a “fake woman”—while “Sappho’s ancient biographers tried to discredit her seriousness by assuring us she lived a life of unrestrained and incoherent sexual indulgence.” These women, however, “know what love is,” namely “the touchstone of a true or a false spirituality,” and each of them finds a means of “telling God.”

Eccentricity and Indulgence in Autocratic Rulers

Social scientific analyses concerned with autocratic rulers of states typically either assume that rulers pursue wealth and power to the virtual exclusion of all else, or else describe rulers' motivations in an entirely post hoc fashion. These perspectives can be improved upon. I predict that eccentricity and sexual indulgence—that is, the pursuit of desires other than power and wealth—on the part of autocratic rulers will be neither infrequent nor negligible. I predict that such behaviors are more likely to emerge when rulers inherit rather than win the throne, and that they are more likely to be reformed in the face of severe threats. These predictions are tested using four dynasties of autocratic rulers.

The courts: Arbiters of conventional sexual morality on campus

Common wisdom often asserts that colleges are hotbeds of libertine sexual indulgence and that the courts are lenient in dealing with sexually-related matters on campus. Quite a different picture emerges, however, from an examination of the court cases involving serious sexual misconduct in American campus life. Indeed, it may be interpreted as a model of conventional morality.

Augustus' Legislation on Marriage and Children

We are often told that it is impossible to legislate morality. The ancient Romans would have disagreed. One striking example of such an effort is the series of laws sponsored by Augustus to penalize sexual indulgence, promote child-bearing, and restore the family. The texts of these laws have been partially restored' and their provisions have been precisely defined by modern scholars.2 Much still remains to be said, however, about their character and mean ing. My aim here is to propose an interpretation of these laws, with special attention to their origin and historical significance.

Dona Ana's Seduction in El Burlador de Sevilla

tin Millares Carlo, II (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Econòmica, 1957), 9-97. 10 Two plays mentioned by Valency and later by Hesse as related to El mayor -monstruo los celos are Lodovico Dolce's Miriamo (e. 1560) and Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola 's Alejandra (e. 1581), both of which share elements with Calderón's work but differ greatly in dramatic conception. Among the Spanish dramatists to base plays on the Herod-Mariamne story are Tirso de Molina (La vida de Heredes) and Cristóbal Lozano (Herodes Ascalonita y la hermosa Mariana). " Albert E. Sloman, The Dramatic Craftsmanship of Calderón: His Use of Earlier Plays (Oxford: The Dolphin Book Co. Ltd., 1969). 12Albert E. Sloman, The Sources of Calder ón's 'El príncipe constante' (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1950). 13Robert Sloan, "Action and Role in El príncipe constante," MLN, 85 (1970), 167-83. 14T. J. Reiss, Toward Dramatic Illusion: Theatrical Technique from Hardy to Horace (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971), p. 34. ^ Ibid., p. 52. 16Tristan, La Mariane, ed. Jacques Madeleine (Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1917), V, iii, p. 123. For the text of Mariamne, see Le Théâtre d'Alexandre Hardy, ed. E. Stengel, II (Marburg: N. G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung , 1884), 185-229. 17D. Westgate, "La Mariane and the Formation of Classical Tragedy," NFS, 4 (1965), 12-13. See also F. K. Dawson, "An Idea of Tragedy: Tristan l'Hermite's Mariane and La Morte de Sénèque," NFS, 2 (1963), 4. 18Westgate, pp. 5 and 12. Claude K. Abraham expresses a similar opinion in "Tristan L'Hermite's Mariane: L'Etrangère," FR, 40 (1967), 657. 19Daniella Dalla Valle, Il teatro di Tristan I'Hermite: Saggio storico e critico (Torino: Giappichelli, Editore, 1964, pp. 230 ff. ^»{¿«T^î DONA ANA'S SEDUCTION IN EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA Vicente Cabrera, Colorado State University Tirso de Molina's critics disagree about Doña Ana's seduction. Was she or was she not seduced? Among those who do not believe she was seduced are M. L. Radoff, W. C. Salley, and Bruce Wardropper; among those who think she was are Alexander Parker and Duncan Moir. These are the passages in which they mention their positions on this subject. Radoff and Salley in their article, "Notes on the Burlador" state: It is hardly conceivable that Don Juan would be telling a lie in this last scene of a moral lesson, and it is less likely that the shade of Don Gonzalo would let it pass unchallenged . His answer is pertinent to this point and significant to the understanding of Tirso's ethical scheme: No importa, que ya pusiste tu intento? Wardropper, in his article, "El Burlador de Sevilla: A Tragedy of Errors," writes: Among the objects of Don Juan's attention only Doña Ana is realistic. She does not, like Isabella, mistake the intruder's identity (II, 516-9). Nor does she, like Tisbea and Aminta , fall a prey to flattery—possibly for lack of time, because her father, unlike Don Juan's, does not hesitate to seek temporal justice, even if he must be killed in the process. At any rate Don Juan is able later to assure the ghost: A tu hija no ofendí, que vio mis engaños antes (III, 963-4). Doña Ana and her father, Don Gonzalo , are the only ones to triumph over Don Juan: they hold firm to an unselfish moral principle, honor. But since in Don Juan's Spain justice is partial they must triumph in death.2 49 What Radoff, Salley, and Wardropper do is take literally el burladors words. Should the reader believe what Don Juan says? This is the question to be answered after the two opposing points of view are cited. Parker writes of the episodes of the four women as follows: In fact none of the four seductions perpetrated by Don Juan is merely a sin of sexual indulgence; each one is aggravated by circumstances that make it heinous. The seduction of Isabela is treachery towards a friend (Octavio) and, above all, an act of lèse-majesté since it was committed in the royal palace. The dishonouring of Tisbea is...

THE EVILS OF BICYCLE RIDING IN GROWING BOYS

Dr. S. A. K. Strahan, a most proper Victorian, reached the following conclusions on what he believed were the evil effects of bicycle riding on young boys: The pressure upon the perineum whether it be continuous and increased at every jolt, or whether it be made up of jolts alone, must be injurious. It causes irritation and congestion of the prostate and surrounding parts, tends to exhaust and cause atrophy of the delicate muscles of the perineum, and also calls the boy's attention to the organs of generation, and so lead to a great increase in masturbation in the timid, to early sexual indulgence in the more venturesome and ultimately to early impotence in both. For support of the latter conclusion the "disease of the Scythians" and the impotence among the Tartars from horse-back riding are cited.

THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF SEXUAL INDULGENCE IN THE ALBINO RAT

ArticleTHE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF SEXUAL INDULGENCE IN THE ALBINO RATII. Spontaneous ActivityJames Rollin SlonakerJames Rollin SlonakerFrom the Department of Physiology, Stanford University, CaliforniaPublished Online:01 Oct 1927https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1927.82.2.376MoreSectionsPDF (720 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInWeChat Previous Back to Top Next Download PDF FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 82Issue 2October 1927Pages 376-380 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1927 by American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1927.82.2.376History Received 27 June 1927 Published online 1 October 1927 Published in print 1 October 1927 Metrics

Sterility—A Remediable Cause

<h3>To the Editor:</h3> —When in general practice, I was occasionally consulted for the relief of sterility by couples who had been married several years, and in whom there was no apparent physical disability. In searching for the causes, I found a suggestion in an old edition of the work on midwifery by Cazeaux that led me to think that the condition was often maintained by too frequent sexual indulgence. Cazeaux suggested that in women the ovum is usually thrown off at the time of menstruation; but that during an orgasm provoked by sexual congress the ovum might be discharged at other times. I reasoned that in this way the ova were constantly thrown off before reaching maturity, and therefore were incapable of fecundation. I advised that for five or six months all sexual intercourse should be abstained from excepting immediately before and immediately after menstruation. I feel sure that in