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CONTRACEPTION

increased health, happiness and efficiency of both."

And Lord Dawson of Penn said:[1] "If this harmful restraint succeeds in preventing conception there eventuates the inevitable prevalence of sex excitement followed by abortive and half-realized satisfaction, and the enhanced risk of the man or woman yielding to outside sex temptations. No—birth control by abstention is either ineffective, or, if effective, is pernicious."

An interesting suggestion was made to me by a medical practitioner, who wrote, (No. 2016) "My own belief is that enlarged prostate is due to sexual congestion unrelieved. It is most often found in men with a clean record. In books and articles upon the subject the sexual history is seldom or never referred to. In middle class life, after middle life, wives develop a disgust for sexual life. In many cases the husband, out of consideration for the wife, gives up sexual intercourse while retaining sexual passion. This leads to sexual congestion and in some cases to prostatic enlargement."

I embody this suggestion here as it is one

  1. ↑ Lord Dawson of Penn (1921): "Love—Marriage—Birth Control: Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at Birmingham, October, 1921." Pp. 27. London, 1921. See p. 22.

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