ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that if the question of love is made a matter of sedate and philosophical conversation, the pleasures arising from it would be greatly heightened, desire would never be tyrannically suppressed, and much misery and ill health would be avoided. It questions why a female should scruple to express her love or desire. And the same on the part of any man, to yield to the female wish, unless there is a very good reason why the male could not or ought not to do it. It says that it should be a mother's duty, to explain to her daughter, or other female charge, the question of what is love. Then comes the consideration— that health and beauty cannot be encouraged and extended, that love cannot be enjoyed, without the danger of a conception, when that conception is not desired. The chapter condemns and shudders at the infanticides of China and other countries.
