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329: 267: 226: 33: 436:", in which men refrained from ejaculation but women were encouraged to have contractive orgasms at will. In later writings she also began to promulgate the need for women to learn to control their orgasm responses in the same way that the men of Oneida did. Ultimately, Stockham rejected the "male continence" techniques of 474:. It noted that several contemporary writers, in discussing married life, had described, praised, and even ventured to recommend something they termed "a reserved embrace", and forbade priests and spiritual directors ever to suggest that there was otherwise. On October 29, 1951 in his "allocution to midwives", 495:
that every attempt of either husband or wife in the performance of the conjugal act or in the development of its natural consequences which aims at depriving it of its inherent force and hinders the procreation of new life is immoral; and that no "indication" or need can convert an act which is
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Stockham's gender-parity version of tantra yoga, despite its somewhat anti-orgasmic, and thus apparently anti-hedonistic bent, serves as an important counterpoint to the male-centered aspects of traditional tantric sexual practices and later variants such as the "sex-magick" of
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Stockham's interest in birth control could not overcome her fear that a mechanical sperm barrier would prevent "the complete interchange of magnetism" (a theory popular among 19th century sexual-spiritual teachers). In part this stems from the biblical injunction against
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Despite the many benefits of Stockham's approach, including granting couples the ability to choose opportunities for parenthood without contraceptives, the Vatican did not like Karezza or its relatives. Forty years after Stockham's death in 1912, the
403:(from the Italian for "caress") and authored a book by this name in 1896. It refers to non-religious spiritual sexual practices that draw upon tantric techniques of body control but do not involve any of tantra's cultural or iconographic symbolism. 462:; otherwise, they diverge as far as doctrine is concerned. She saw Karezza as a way to promote health and happiness in marriage. The emphasis was on selflessness in lovemaking, gentle, harmonious passion leading to sublime spiritual delights. 192:, privately printed and gave them to "unfortunate women" to sell door-to-door in Chicago. Each copy came with a bound-in certificate signed by Stockham, entitling the bearer to a free gynecological exam. 499:
This precept is in full force today, as it was in the past, and so it will be in the future also, and always, because it is not a simple human whim, but the expression of a natural and divine law.
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in favour of gender parity in orgasm control. She also rejected Noyes' polyamorous ideas and promoted Karezza as a way to strengthen marriage and monogamy.
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who wanted to get off the street. She felt these women had no marketable skills and would be unable to support themselves, so she had copies of her book
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social and political equality for women (she felt that "Karezza men" would never rape their wives and would actually treat them "decently");
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and from her trips to schools there she brought back the idea of teaching children domestic crafts, thus single-handedly establishing
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In 1905, a then 72-year old Stockham and her publisher were convicted of circulating improper literature under the
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Also available as Stockham, Alice (2019). The lover's world : a wheel of life. Norderstedt: Books on Demand.
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marital pleasure and hence marital fidelity (she advocated Karezza as a cure for "failing marriages").
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Each mind a kingdom : American women, sexual purity, and the New Thought movement, 18751920
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birth control (she was against abortion but she wanted women to be able to control pregnancies);
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The secret history of western sexual mysticism : sacred practices and spiritual marriage
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Stockham was very concerned with the economic plight of divorced women with children and
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A well-traveled and well-read person who counted among her friends
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Havelock Ellis
Sweden
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home economics
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Comstock laws
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