.. the normal living of life without which no
human being could be really decent--and that regardless of marriage and
the conventions!
"The situation as it is, is odious ... all men, with but few exceptions,
have sexual life before marriage, but they insist that their wives come
to them in that state of absurd ignorance of their own bodily functions
and consequent lack of exercise of them, which they denominate 'purity.'
...
"I doubt if there is a solitary man in this audience--a married man--who
has not had premarital intercourse with women."
All the while I kept my eye on Professor Wilton, who sat near me, in the
row ahead ... he was flushing furiously in angry, puritanic dissent ...
and I knew him well enough to foresee a forthcoming outburst of protest.
"Yes, I think I can safely say that there is not one married man here
who can honestly claim that he came to his wife with that same physical
'purity' which he required of her."
Wilton leaped to his feet in a fury ... the good, simple soul. He was
so indignant that the few white hairs on his head worked up sizzling
with his emotion....
"_Here's one!_" he shouted, forgetting in his earnest anger the
assembled audience, most of whom knew him.
There followed such an uproar of merriment as I have never seen the like
before nor since. The students, of course, howled with indescribable joy
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