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CONTRACEPTION

deprived of the full and prolonged contact, but also of the seminal fluid itself. That seminal fluid is probably a stimulant was suggested long ago by John Hunter,[1] who said: "The semen would appear, both from the smell and taste, to be a mawkish kind of substance; but when held some time in the mouth it produces a warmth similar to spices, which lasts some time."

Havelock Ellis brings together a number of data bearing on the question of the value of the seminal fluid for women, concluding: "If semen is a stimulant when ingested, it is easy to suppose that it may exert a similar action on the woman who receives it into the vagina in normal sexual congress."[2] And after I published "Wise Parenthood," in which I expressed my personal disapproval of the method, Sir Arbuthnot Lane, the famous surgeon, told me of some interesting cases of his own which certainly seem to indicate that part at least of the prostatic secretion is beneficially absorbed by the woman from the male ejaculate deposited in her vagina.

  1. ↑ John Hunter (1793-1800, publ. 1861): "Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology and Geology." Posthumous Papers, edited by Owen. 2 vols. Vol. i, Pp. xvii, 403, London, 1861.
  2. ↑ H. Ellis (1920): "Studies in the Psychology of Sex Erotic Symbolism." Pp. x, 285. See pp. 171 et seq.

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