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ABSTINENCE: THE SEXUAL IMPULSE

The sexual impulse, perhaps more than any other, tends to organize itself into a system, so that one may be said to develop almost a dual personality—one of sexual gratification, the other of abnegation. Once a person is well within the fold of either of these personalities, he is fairly safe from the influence of the other. The only place therefore where self-control is of much avail is on the boundary line between the two personalities. One can soon learn by observation of himself which situations or suggestions are the portals that lead into his personality of sexual gratification, and he can strive to avoid these, if he has good reasons for doing so. One may think that he can make partial con^ cessions to his sexual personality and enter only so far into this territory and no farther, but he usually finds that once he has stepped foot into this realm, his whole mental outlook changes and he is unable to argue his way out. What once would have seemed a conclusive reason for abstinence no longer has weight against the influence of the other self which now dominates his judgments. The best practical motto, then, for sexual abstinence is: "Avoid the first step."

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