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Routledge Revivals

Fertility and Sterility in Marriage

First published in 1931 by Random House

This edition first published in 2018 by Routledge
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1931 by Taylor & Francis
Copyright 1929 by Dr. Th. H. Van De Velde

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Fertility and Sterility in Marriage

Their Voluntary Promotion and Limitation

Let us not mourn, but act!

Let us not deplore, but help!

Let us not accuse, but improve!

ARTHUR SCHNITZLER

BY DR. TH. H. VAN DE VELDE

IDEAL MARRIAGE

ITS PHYSIOLOGY AND TECHNIQUE

SEXUAL TENSIONS IN MARRIAGE

THEIR ORIGIN, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

FERTILITY AND STERILITY IN MARRIAGE

THEIR VOLUNTARY PROMOTION AND LIMITATION

Fertility and Sterility in Marriage

Their Voluntary Promotion and Limitation

by TH. H. VAN DE VELDE, M.D.

FORMERLY DIRECTOR OF THE GYNECOLOGICAL CLINIC AT HAARLEM

AUTHOR OF Ideal Marriage

Translated by STELLA BROWNE

COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY DR. TH. H. VAN DE VELDE

COPYRIGHT, 1931, BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS

Die Fruchtbarkeit in der Ehe, und Ihre Wunschgemsse Beeinflussung

DEDICATED

TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER

Mans reverence for Woman is based on this: in Womans body slumbers Immortality.

C ARL L UDWIG S CHLEICH .

There is no virtue in evasion,

No courage in prejudice,

No salvation in ignorance.

L INCOLN C OLCORD .

I T is a duty to render thanks where they are due, and a pleasure as well: for it is pleasant to have had occasion for gratitude. So, at the threshold of my book, I have special pleasure in expressing my cordial thanks to my colleague, Dr. Otto Herschan of Breslau, who has indefatigably helped me with extensive preliminary work for several of the following chapters.

I am greatly indebted to Mr. C. A. Bang, O.B.E., of Prestwood, Bucks., for much valuable help, and for the way he has exerted himself introducing my works in the English language.

Finally, I wish to thank Miss F. W. Stella Browne for the extraordinary care she devoted to the translation, and Mr. J. Johnston Abraham, F.R.C.S., for his valuable advice and for supervising and reading the proofs.

This is the third and last volume of my trilogy on marital problems. It deals with extremely significant matters, and with questions in the forefront of public interest to-day; questions as difficult to elucidate as they are important to estimate and understand. Therefore, I have been obliged to limit the subject-matter of this book to what seemed absolutely essential for the mastery of general principles and main facts. In my original plan, chapters on individual eugenics and volitional sex determination had been included, and to some extent, already constructed, but they have finally been omitted in order to spare my readers further masses of material, which are not essential for this book.

On the other hand, however, I have not attempted what seems to me undue simplification of my theme or my treatment. If the book is to give the instruction of which my readers are in need, it must delve into the quarry of human knowledge, and not pass lightly over its surface.

The accessory facts have been treated in appendices, following the chapters to which they are relevant. The bibliographical references have been listed under consecutive numerals at the end of the book.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the utmost has been done to make my subject-matter intelligible.

I hope that its statements, arguments and suggestions may be received in the spirit in which they have been offered.

TH. H. VAN DE VELDE.

V AL F ONTILE ,
M INUSIO -L OCARNO ,
S WITZERLAND .

Table of Contents

P ART I
ETHICAL POSTULATES AND PRINCIPLES

Difficulties of the Subject

Three Groups of probable Readers

Illusion

Fiction

Vital Hypothesis

Significance of Religion: Ethical and Practical

Sexual Abstinence if effective must be absolute

Sexual Starvation

Condemnation of Prolonged Abstinence within Marriage io

The Large Families of the Past

Regulation of Reproduction need not be Extreme

Three to Four Children at intervals of two and a half Years

Children should be Born before the Mother is thirty-five

The Roman Catholic Church: Dogma and Codes

Faculative Sterility: Capellmann-Bergmann

Seasonal Diminution of Probable Conceptions

Noldin

Gury-Ballerini

Tempus ageneseos (Safe Period)

Abruptio Copulae before Emission

Contradictions among Catholic Moral Theologians

Exodus from the Churches

Letter of the Bishop of Le Mans

Attitude of Protestant Theologians

Wichern

Knabe

Weymann

Failure of Church Guidance to their Flocks

The Medical Profession has the Duty to Advise

APPENDICES TO CHAPTER I.

Noldin, Original Text

Noldin, Telch, Gury-Ballerini Original Texts

Monseigneur Bouvier, Original Text

The Sin of Onan

Quotation from Kirstein,

Quotation from Haug

Copec

The Hebrew Faith and Contraception

The Lambeth Conference

Quotation from Wichern

Grotjahn

The Egotism of the Sexual Impulse

Harmony of Interests: Individual and Communal So

Difficulties of the Population Problem

Dangers of Unbalance, Ethnic and Cultural

Neither Overpopulation nor Depopulation

The Situation in Contemporary France

Difficulties of Assimilation

Dangers to Cultural Level

Make it advantageous to have Children!

Position in Western and Central Europe

Grotjahns View: Minimum of Three Children

Financial Privileges for Large Healthy Families

The Housing Problem

Large-Scale Measures advisable

Quantity and Quality

Diminished Numbers affect Quality

Each Social Stratum should make good its Losses

Improvement of Quality Imperative

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