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- Herausgeber: Bernarr Macfadden
- Kategorie: Ratgeber
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
Numerous books have been written on the subject treated herein, but no one gives sufficient practical knowledge to enable the average reader to apply the necessary treatment required in his own case.
The writer has endeavored to supply this need. He has purposely refrained from all technical phrases, and the contents have been abbreviated as much as possible.
It is the writer’s desire to furnish the greatest amount of information in the fewest possible words. He is of the opinion that there are thousands, and perhaps millions, of boys, young men, and even old men, whose powers, mental, physical and sexual, are fast declining because of the need of knowledge which can be supplied here, and he firmly and honestly believes that the contents of this work will do more to elevate, ennoble and strengthen its readers than any other influence of a similar character. It will help them to be men strong, virile, superb and the first duty of every male human adult is to be a man. All other requirements should be subordinate to this. You cannot build a house without a foundation to rest upon, and virile manhood is the foundation upon which must rest all the results that accrue from education and the refining influences of civilized life. In other words, if you do not possess this virile manhood your imperative duty is to strive for its acquirement, even if necessary for the time being to sacrifice every other purpose in life. For if you are not a man, you are nothing but a nonentity! A cipher! And as long as you remain in this emasculated condition, your powers and capacities in every way will be bound by your weakened condition.
The writer has pointed out the way to acquire and retain these much desired powers. It lies with you. Is the reward a sufficient recompense? If so, begin the work prescribed here at once, for he is no miracle worker. He does not offer you powers, worth more than all the money in the universe, in a few dollars’ worth of powders or pills.
The writer desires to say in conclusion, that it is impossible for him to give special advice in individual cases. If this book is carefully studied there should be absolutely no need of this. He has found, usually, that those who desire special advice, simply wish to avoid the study necessary in forming accurate conclusions as to the proper treatment in their cases. He has endeavored to meet every possible contingency that will appear in ordinary cases, and though he is aware that everyone is usually under the impression that his case is far from agreeing with the ordinary, still careful study will usually reveal no features essentially different.
You should study up your own case and thus be able to answer your own questions; and it will be to your advantage in the end to do this, because you will be following conclusions that are the product of your own reasoning, and if they are wrong the results will soon show it, and then, if puzzled, you can go to others to solve your problems.
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The Virile Powers of Superb Manhood
How Developed, How Lost: How Regained
by Bernarr Macfadden
Original edition 1900 By Physical Culture Corporation, New York City 1st Digital edition 2016
Table of Contents
The Virile Powers of Superb Manhood
How Developed, How Lost: How Regained
To assist in stifling that horrible curse of prudishness and the ignorance of sex which it entails is the object which has influenced the writing of this book.
To all those whose souls and bodies are tortured with weakness because of the criminal neglect of prudish parents, or because of their own indiscretions or excesses resulting from ignorance of sex, this book is most respectfully dedicated.
Do not be satisfied with mediocrity : Push onward and upward. If you are not strong, if you have not the energy, the ambition, the power, which lead one above the prosaic, the commonplace, develop it now. Make up your mind that strength and health of a high degree shall be yours, and work for this end with determination and persistence, and superb physical powers will be your glorious reward.
Preface.
Numerous books have been written on the subject treated herein, but no one gives sufficient practical knowledge to enable the average reader to apply the necessary treatment required in his own case.
The writer has endeavored to supply this need. He has purposely refrained from all technical phrases, and the contents have been abbreviated as much as possible.
It is the writer’s desire to furnish the greatest amount of information in the fewest possible words. He is of the opinion that there are thousands, and perhaps millions, of boys, young men, and even old men, whose powers, mental, physical and sexual, are fast declining because of the need of knowledge which can be supplied here, and he firmly and honestly believes that the contents of this work will do more to elevate, ennoble and strengthen its readers than any other influence of a similar character. It will help them to be men —strong, virile, superb—and the first duty of every male human adult is to be a man. All other requirements should be subordinate to this. You cannot build a house without a foundation to rest upon, and virile manhood is the foundation upon which must rest all the results that accrue from education and the refining influences of civilized life. In other words, if you do not possess this virile manhood your imperative duty is to strive for its acquirement, even if necessary for the time being to sacrifice every other purpose in life. For if you are not a man, you are nothing but a nonentity ! A cipher ! And as long as you remain in this emasculated condition, your powers and capacities in every way will be bound by your weakened condition.
The writer has pointed out the way to acquire and retain these much desired powers. It lies with you. Is the reward a sufficient recompense ? If so, begin the work prescribed here at once, for he is no miracle worker. He does not offer you powers, worth more than all the money in the universe, in a few dollars’ worth of powders or pills. You must work for such rewards. There is nothing on earth of real value which is acquired without labor, and the powers of manhood are no exception to this rule. You must bring about your own cure.
The writer desires to say in conclusion, that it is impossible for him to give special advice in individual cases. If this book is carefully studied there should be absolutely no need of this. He has found, usually, that those who desire special advice, simply wish to avoid the study necessary in forming accurate conclusions as to the proper treatment in their cases. He has endeavored to meet every possible contingency that will appear in ordinary cases, and though he is aware that everyone is usually under the impression that his case is far from agreeing with the ordinary, still careful study will usually reveal no features essentially different.
You should study up your own case and thus be able to answer your own questions; and it will be to your advantage in the end to do this, because you will be following conclusions that are the product of your own reasoning, and if they are wrong the results will soon show it, and then, if puzzled, you can go to others to solve your problems.
BERNARR MACFADDEN.
Chapter I.The Importance of Virile Manhood.
WHERE KNOWLEDGE BECOMES A CURSE.
Man, the king of all animals, still grovels in the dust and mire of ignorance, and even his own boasted knowledge often turns and bites, and stings and enervates, and at times even destroys him. Knowledge of evil without the antidote of knowing its vile and destructive influence, is a condition where knowledge becomes a curse. Knowledge of the momentary pleasures which can be obtained by sexual indulgences, without the knowledge of their terrible deleterious influence under certain unnatural conditions, is one of the greatest causes of physical weakness, and the pain, unhappiness and disease that accompany this abnormal condition.
The sexual power of a man indicates with marvelous accuracy his general physical and mental condition. It is the barometer of the physical and nervous organism.
INTENSE ENTHUSIASM INSPIRED BY VIRILE POWERS.
The fiery ardor of a patriot, the intense ambition of an enthusiast, the inspiration that influences noble deeds of valor, the sacrificial spirit that has time and time again caused the world to ring with praises of some hero, all spring from the same nervous energy which supplies the power of sex, the power of manhood.
Name any man famous in the world of literature, of art, or of science, and in nearly every instance he will be found to possess evidence of strong virility. The nervous energy, so necessary to the enormous labor which brought his success, was the same power that controlled hi ; sexual instinct.
“Sexuality has been strongly marked in all the great men who have risen to eminence in all departments of life ; without it man would be mean, selfish, sordid and ungracious to his fellowmen and uncivil to womankind. Were it not for this nature which God has implanted in our being, no man would desire to provide for the support of another individual, or enter into a relation which would likely impose upon him the necessity of supporting a family of dependent and growing children. No man becomes affable, gracious and considerate to women until he is rendered so by the awakening of his sexual nature and the quickening of that within him, which, when held under proper discipline and control, renders him noble and unselfish. “—Sylvanus Stall, D.D.
CLOSE RELATIONSHIP OF SEXUAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH.
The great importance of strong sexual powers cannot be too strongly emphasized. Their influence on life is marvelous. If a fine, vigorous man acquires a complaint that weakens his sexual organs, his powers in every way will begin to decline—his muscles will grow weaker, his nerves will be affected, and unless a change is quickly made, he will soon become a physical wreck. The nervous, sexual, muscular and vital forces are so closely interwoven that what affects one always influences the others in a similar manner. As the muscles are developed and strengthened the nervous and other powers are favorably influenced if wisely used.
The nervous forces depend upon a normal circulation of the blood for their sustenance. Muscular exercise of some kind is absolutely necessary to functional activity of the entire circulatory system.
The mental influence of a strong sexual instinct is seen in all male animals as well as man. It elevates, thrills one with energy, with powers, and no one can for an instant question the conclusion that strength in this way gives a man more power in every walk of life.
PERFECT SEXUAL POWERS GIVEN ONLY TO THE BEST.
It is one of Nature’s unfailing laws that the best of her species shall possess the greatest powers of transmitting their kind ; and who can for one instant question the conclusion that vigorous sexual powers, temperatey and legitimately used, actually brighten and strengthen a man’s every faculty, elevate and inspire his every ambition, giving him greater influence and capacity for anything he may attempt in life ? But few men by their own efforts have ever accomplished anything of value in life who were not gifted also with a strong sexual instinct.
SEXUAL POWER INDICATES CAPACITY.
The importance of retaining the sexual power, of using it wisely and temperately, cannot be over-estimated. It is paramount. Lose your sexual power, lose the power to reproduce your species, and, according to the laws of nature, your days of usefulness are past, and decay and death will soon overtake you.
Impotence sexually means impotence in everything, impotence mentally, physically, socially, etc. Your powers are fast waning —you might just as well be laid away without further notice.
Chapter II.Causes of Loss of Manhood.
IGNORANCE AND PRUDISHNESS PRIMARY CAUSES.
The causes are various, but unquestionably the great primary causes are ignorance and the prudishness which it engenders.
Ignorance of the facts in reference to the sexual instinct that should be as plain as the noonday sun to every human being, this, together with lack of knowledge of the great laws of health, so necessary in order to build vigor and symmetry of body, have resulted in filling civilized countries with a host of pigmy men. Immediately after birth they come in contact with abnormal influences. They are encumbered with clothing that discourages rather than encourages muscular movements, they are compelled to breathe foul air when the weather is cold ; they are always overfed ; the bottle often does duty for the female breast, and they come in contact with all sorts of conditions that tend to 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.
ABNORMAL CONDITIONS THAT CONFRONT ALL BOYS.
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 universally among young men in all civilized countries. (See chapter on Promiscuous Intercourse.) This habit is not practiced long without severe suffering. Some one of the diseases which is the terrible penalty for this plain infraction of Nature’s laws is sure to be contracted. Then the torture of body and of mind is terrible. Visions of complete loss of manhood confront him. He may have had dreams of a home, surrounded by a loving wife, and happy, beautiful children. He realizes with stinging keenness the fact that these diseases may forever destroy the possibility of the realization of this beautiful dream. (See chapter on these diseases.) Though many fall by the wayside, the majority get through these last-named contaminating conditions with enough vital and sexual strength to look with favor on marriage.
UNNATURAL MARITAL CONDITIONS.
The girl that such a man marries is usually weak and possesses but little instinct of sex, and then sexual excess begins its frightful ravages on the physical man. (See chapter on Sexual Excess.)
This sexual excess continues usually until impotence intervenes.
There you have the life of the average civilized man !
Think you this picture overdrawn ?
Think you that this is civilization ?
My friends, it is savagery of the lowest, the most bestial character. As long as such a state of affairs exists, we have no more right to the claim of civilization than had those effeminate, corrupt and well-fed patricians of Ancient Rome whose weakness finally resulted in the downfall of that grand empire.
ARE WE, TOO, CONSIGNED TO SPEEDY OBLIVION?
The decay and death of this great people convey a lesson that can not be mistaken, and the writer maintains with all possible emphasis that either existing conditions will soon be changed or else the civilization of which we boast will meet with swift and certain oblivion.
Think you there is no truth in this statement? Let the future answer!
But cry out the truth on the housetops!
A drunkard begins by taking an occasional dram which seems of no importance.
All the vast category of evils enumerated here are really made possible by that Gorgon horror, Masturbation. The most damnable crime ever committed is the neglect of parents to warn their children of this evil which degrades and demoralizes the physical and sexual system, and makes all the terrible evils that follow so easily acquired.
But why go further ? Let us pass on to the next chapter and learn more of this horrible curse.
Chapter III.Masturbation.
RESULTS IN FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF MANLY POWERS.
The loss of physical manhood resulting from this one evil is horrible to contemplate. The laws of sex should be as plain as the alphabet to every human being, even from early childhood. Boys grow up without a word said to them on this important subject. They come in contact with the most horrible and most destructive evils of life almost before the real struggle of life begins. They enter it without a word of warning.
This is the usual condition. Think of it, reader. Parents who claim to love their children, allow this.
TERRIBLE ARRAIGNMENT OF THIS EVIL BY AN AUTHORITY.
“Masturbation outrages nature’s sexual ordinances more than any or all the other forms of sexual sin man can perpetrate and inflicts consequences the most terrible. It is man’s sin of sins, and vice of vices ; and has caused incomparably more sexual dilapidation, paralysis, and disease, as well as demoralization, than all the other sexual depravities combined. Neither Christendom nor heathendom suffers any evil at all to compare with this ; because of its universality, and its terrible fatal ravages on body and mind ; and because it attacks the young idols of our hearts, and hopes of our future years. Pile all other evils together—drunkenness upon all cheateries, swindlings, robberies, and murders ; and tobacco upon both, for it is the greatest scourge ; and all sickness, diseases and pestilences upon all ; and war as the cap sheaf of them all—and all combined cause not a tithe as much human deterioration and misery as does this secret sin.”—Prof. O. S. Fowler.
HANDSOME BOYS WRECKED.
You see a strong, handsome boy, clear-eyed with beautifully-tinted complexion, straight, well-formed limbs. You admire his elastic step, his manly carriage, his fine, wholesome, symmetrically-formed body.
A year or two, or even a few months, intervene, and this boy has learned, through evil associates, or by accident, this secret vice. You see him again, and you may well start with pain and surprise at the change.
Is this the same boy I admired so much ? you may exclaim.
There is no light of health in his eyes now ; there is no symmetry to his ungainly body, no tint to his sallow cheeks, no grace, or manliness in his bearing. He looks old and weak, appears bashful and timid, seems afraid of your glance. The dark circles under his eyes, unshapely appearance of his lower limbs, and general decrepit and demoralized condition tell a tale that no language can fittingly depict,—the awful results of masturbation.
IGNORANCE THE CAUSE.
“The most fruitful source of self-pollution is ignorance. If parents were faithful in the discharge of their duty to their children in this respect, the evil would be generally corrected. The silence of most parents is both foolish and culpable. The person who leaves his or her child to learn from vicious companions in an unhallowed way what they should have received from the lips of father or mother is guilty of grave neglect, and loses the best opportunity of a parent’s life to establish the mind of the child in purity and virtue. “—Sylvanus Stall, D. D.
Mrs. Alice Lee Moque, herself the mother of three boys, in writing upon this subject aptly and correctly says:
“Ignorance is a dre [...]
