Karezza
Alice Bunker Stockham
1896
"With Karezza, satiety is never known, and the married are never less than lovers; each day reveals new delights….The common daily sarcasms of married people are at an end, the unseemly quarrels have no beginnings and the divorce courts are cheated of their records." More than a century ago, a remarkable woman actualized the revolutionary concept "Karezza" (Italian for "caress"). In this book, Karezza: Ethics of Marriage. Alice Bunker Stockham, M. D. - one of the first women medical school graduates in the United States - counsels couples on the value of avoiding orgasm during sex for the same reasons as does Cupid's Poisoned Arrow, namely: better health, and greater harmony and spiritual attainment. GREETING CHAPTER I. CREATIVE ENERGY CHAPTER II. KAREZZA CHAPTER III. ATTAINMENT POSSIBLE CHAPTER IV. HEALTH CHAPTER V. PARENTHOOD CHAPTER VI. CONTROL OF PROCREATIVE POWERS CHAPTER VII. FREE MOTHERHOOD CHAPTER VIII. MARRIED AND MATED CHAPTER IX. PROCREATION OF THOUGHT CHAPTER X. SPIRITUAL GROWTH CORROBORATION