i) Purity
ii) Moderation.
The ethical evaluation and guidance for hehaviour in sex have already been explained in other volumes of the yoga studies. Its emotional, mental and psychic aspects become the matter for discussion in the other volumes of this series. purity and moderation physiologically imply personal hygiene. So for our present purpose, waht is essential from a strictly physiologic point of view is the exposition of such practical processes as direcly affect the health of the sexual organs and in the case of women contibute to prolonged youth happy married life and healthy motherhood.
In the new concept of motherhood under modern conditions of planned parenthood, however, happy and health motherhood has become problematical. In fact new problems are created for womes in palce of the old or where there were none. So while a mother with many children who should be spared from repeated pregnancy in view of her health and economic conditions still continues to bear more children among the low-income groups, the means of planned parenthood become largely exploited by many health and married women with no children and by uncertain number of unmarried girls of the middle and upper level groups to secure themselves against motherhood even while indulging in unrestrained sexual acts within and without the marriage-bonds. In many cases, such a device is supposed to serve as a proof of their chastity and as a psychosomatic relief from the fear of pregnancy. But when one hears the woeful tales of some misguided women who have unscrupulously exploited this innovation of motherhood, the impression left is that such women have been exposed to more physical mental and moral sufferings thanwhat have been their lot had they not adopted such a course.
The vast problem of sex in the physical sense thus, amounts to the development of health sex organs and the preservation of their normal functions conducive to healthful living and longevity. Yoga aside, any negleet of hygienic laws must necessarily lead ro ill health. In this
regard what howsoever much the mystic or the theoretical yoga proposes to evade or eliminate sex scientific yoga as becomes any exact science fully alive to realism has at no stage neglected the hygiene and scrupulous care of the sex organs and the sublimation of sexual instinct.
Its modest claim isthat through purity and moderation in sex vigour is obtained. The cumulative findings of modern sciences are only now able to prove conclusively how well-founded is this ancient claim of practical Yoga.
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