Read in English by Pamela Nagami.
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of the women's dress reform movement, she published this lively sex manual in 1878. It is a curious blend of useful information and Victorian sexual mythology, at once puritanical and explicit. (Summary by Pamela Nagami)
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section 7 of unmasked or the science of immorality to gentlemen by mary edwards walker this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by pamela anagami chapter 7 hyman's the idea about hymens that once broken are certain signs of maidenly purity originated with brutal men who assumed the marital privileges as rights and instead of treating wives tenderly and gaining their confidence and waiting until their own nature called for the sexual relation through their love of motherhood and thus lubricating the vagina and relaxing the muscular tissues at the entrance have by brute force accomplished copulation breaking blood vessels at the entrance of the vagina and so injuring the uterus by such savageness that the whole woman nature soul revolts that the menses flow as a temporary protection to her precisely the same result follows at all periods in women's life even after she has borne children indeed the vagina has been known to contract more tightly but an hour after repeated copulative acts than it was before the first act after marriage the whole system seems to spend its power to protect against such excess in its efforts to effectually close the vagina to prevent more injury to the whole nerve system that is sure to follow no matter how willing in mind or even anxious a woman may be to yield to a man's demands for the sake of an expected retaining of his affection or for other reasons this condition has confounded men and made them think that women were designedly unaccommodating not only but that they could resume the role of the virgin at will and seem never to have copulated and so they lose confidence in their having been maidenly pure the virgin wife who was compelled to yield to copulation before she is herself prepared for it by the natural lubrications has her nerves so shocked that it frequently occurs that months pass before she is really willing to yield to the relation there are instances where the relation is never desired because of a disgust that women feel for husbands that never act as the wives had any rights but to yield to their demands and so the relation instead of being a tender binding one is an irritating separating one that fearfully injures his whole nervous system as well as hers for a woman cannot have an impaired nervous organization without a husband suffering in his nerves by his having contact with her his ignorance of the cause of many ailments that result from such relationships under such conditions weigh nothing in preventing the effects children are often born of mothers who have never had one sexual relation that has been other than a matter of toleration the ovum went in a proper condition meeting the matured spermatozoa the work of conception must result when such german sperm cells meet so great is the affinity of an ovum and a spermatozoa that conception has taken place with whatever of the hymen there ever was in a perfect condition as the following will show a couple married under circumstances not favorable to having children for a number of years no effort was made to have perfect copulation and not until there were unmistakable signs of acoustimal would either of the couple believe an assault condition possible the attending akushar upon examination declared that the most perfect hymen existed and the woman must certainly be afflicted with a tumor that was about to be expelled with probably fatal results from hemorrhage to the surprise of all a fine child was born after a few hours labor thus greatly muddling the brains of those who were so sure of...