Sex Problems Solved; (Those of Worry and Work) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE WORRY OVER THE FEAR OF BECOMING IMPOTENT The worry over the fear of becoming impotent is too frequent among young men and middle-aged men. In fact, it is one of the many problems the physician has to solve and one of the effects of ignorance and nervous inheritances he has to combat. One may inherit a highly strung nervous organization which, if properly harnessed, will make for success, but false and injurious sexual ideas will, under nervous stress and strain, rise and take possession of the individual. It is in these individuals that worry plays such havoc. It is needless worry in the majority, but this fact has seldom reached them in time. In those who have lived an ordinarily decent life this fear of becoming impotent is groundless. Even temporary impotency should not bring undue worry, for there is generally a discoverable cause and remedy. But, in spite of this optimistic fact, there are thousands of men in the years of physiological prime who worryto the point of actually bringing on physical impotency. By physical impotency is meant the existence of desire, the feeling of virile power, with inability to carry out to fulfilment the sexual act. This condition is caused by a disturbed or inhibited psychical state: the cutting off of the direct relation between the sex centers of the brain where desire originates and the primary sex organs which carry out the physical effects of the desire or impulse. It is analogous to an interruption at Central when you are called up. Both sending and receiving ends are apparently in good working order and you are told to go ahead. But at the moment of acting something cuts in and the message fails to get over. What has cut in at Central?the brain centers?is some sudden idea, shock, fear or shame. It mak...