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There is a ridiculous impression in the minds of some prudes, who have somehow acquired the idea that they are gifted with an excessive amount of refinement, that the sexual part of their nature is something vulgar, to be crushed out of mind and body. Unfortunately there are a few whose minds are so strong, or the sexual instincts so weak, that their efforts result in a sort of sexual annihilation or starvation. If they ever had any evidence of the possession of the magnetism and charm that nearly always accompany a person in a high degree of health, it disappears, and there remains a vacancy as it were. They even have a vacant expression which shows to the world their lack of sexual and general physical stamina,