Note CS — Chapter XXI · SEX-HYGIENE FOR ADULTS
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The mental faculties suffer most under excesses. The Talmud says that the brain dries up through excesses in venere and masturbation. The symptoms of cerebrasthenia e abusu sexuali, says Hegar, is pressure in the head, inability to do continuous mental work and to concentrate one’s thoughts, which involuntarily continue to stray upon the sexual sphere, lack of mental energy, hypochondria and insomnia.
The eyes of the patients are disturbed by light. They fear light in such a degree that reading after a short time has to be interrupted. Mooren reports the case of an American lady who, manu stupri causa from her early youth, could not even stand the lustre of another person’s eye.
Weber found that, excessive congressus, especially in the female sex, has an unfavorable influence upon the organ of hearing. The accompanying symptoms are pains in the vertebral column, in the region of the last pectoral and the first lumbar vertebrae.
Mackenzie says that excesses in venere may lead to inflammations of the nasal mucous membrane, to epistaxis and to abnormal sensations of smelling.