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Rh depreciate vitality. Of course over half are killed by all this, and those that survive are greatly weakened, and never attain the superb manhood that should be their inalienable right.

From the ages of six to fourteen years, the disgusting and depraved secrecy maintained in all sexual subjects arouses a boy's curiosity, and he finally discovers through evil companions, or by accident, that horrible curse, MASTURBATION. Vitality may have struggled for the mastery before, but now it has an enemy with which it literally has no chance. (See chapter on Masturbation.) When a boy finally escapes from the clutches of this Gorgon evil—though many never escape—he finds that he is cursed with night losses that seem to waste his vitality almost as speedily as the previous evil. (See chapter on Night Losses and Other Drains upon Vital Powers.) He usually escapes from this with his life, and then is confronted with promiscuous intercourse, as practiced almost