Ethnically speaking, masturbation is a true physical and moral disease, which tends to leave a mark of abjectness and decadence with a people or with a race. A hundred, a thousand times better is the lust which lies in a love that is at least shared, which, even in its extremes, encounters a certain restraint in the complete satisfaction of a natural need shared between two beings. Until such time as this convulsed and scrofulous civilization of ours shall learn to give to every man born of woman a loaf of bread and a woman, the nauseous stench of solitary vice will continue to contaminate every vein of our body social, transforming love's joyous grape-cluster into a handful of musty corn, devoured by cryptogamia.
Solitary lust tends to approach the embrace, when it seeks a lustful ally.
Man may masturbate man, and woman may do the same to woman. Another form of reciprocal masturbation in women occurs when a woman possessing an exceptionally long clitoris is thereby enabled to simulate the sexual embrace with another woman. Today, however, tribadism is synonymous with physical love between two women, whether such love finds satisfaction in one or another mode. Even among our won women folk, this vice is by no means rare. I have known a number, married and with children, who seek pleasure only of a woman friend or a female lover, whom they passionately adore, and of whom they are very, very jealous.