Note ED — Chapter XXIV · MALE CHASTITY

The radical preachers of revolt against chastity are fond to assert that chastity has been forced upon women by men. This assertion does not betray profound logic. The entire institution of monogamy, or of marriage for that matter, is in the interest of woman and eminently adapted to her needs only. Woman’s greatest need is to love and to be loved, a man can more readily sublimate his sexual instinct into higher channels.

The same shallowness of observation is shown in catch-phrases, such as this: “Once women married because they were not permitted to work at all, now they marry because they are forced to work beyond their endurance.” And why do men marry? Not for the satisfaction of their sexual desires; this they can have without the valuable privilege of being allowed to support some other men’s daughters. No, men and women marry because, if they are not degenerates, they are driven to marriage by the permanent mating instinct, which is innate in man for the benefit of the offspring.