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CHAPTER FIVE

perhaps it may be satisfactory in isolated instances of emergency. I condemn the method both on the grounds of its harmfulness to the male central nervous system, and its local effect, and because it deprives the female of the proper completion of the physiological reactions set in motion by the onset of the coital act.

By Both Parties:—
(7) Control of the coital act so that ejaculation shall not take place even after prolonged union. Known as "Male Continence," "Karezza," "Zugassent's Discovery," "Sedular Absorption," "Magnetation," "Self-Control," and by a variety of other names.

This method consists, like coitus interruptus, in the normal and unclothed and unhindered entry of the penis into the vagina, but differs from coitus interruptus in controlling the nervous excitation so as never to approach the onset of the orgasm. The union is protracted, and the erection, after being active for a length of time varying from twenty minutes to ten hours, naturally subsides before withdrawal from the vagina.

Noyes claimed that he discovered it in 1846, and he gave an interesting account of the method,[1] but it was undoubtedly known

  1. ↑ John Humphrey Noyes (1877): "Male Continence." 2nd ed. Pp. 32. Oneida, 1877.

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