Puny Offspring (MGGGG 7)

You'd like to think that if the young men could just hold off until marriage, then they could relax and have fun. But in his book to young men Graham spends many pages warning of the dangers of having too much sex even within marriage.

Here's another quote from his book, and the last, I promise.

It is no uncommon thing for a young couple to enter into wedlock in good health, and in due time to be blessed with one and perhaps two or three healthy and vigorous children; and afterwards they will have, in succession two, three, four or five feeble and puny offspring which will either be still-born, or survive their birth but a few months, or at longest, but two or three years; and very probably during this time there will be several abortions; and all the while the unfortunate wife will be afflicted with great debility and extensive functional derangement, and almost constantly suffer those numerous and distressing pains and ailments which result from sexual excesses. Very frequently, also, the husband becomes severely afflicted with distressing consequences, debility, inflammation, swelling and excruciating pain of the spermatic cords, and also of the testicles, resulting, perhaps, in the necessity for castration, and sometimes death.

Sound familiar? An odd thing about this argument is that Sylvester was the 17th child and when he was born his father (my great great great great grandfather) was 73 years old!