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...couples who use rhythm for contraception, Cross prescribes a more rigorous schedule than most have practiced: intercourse is permitted for only seven clays before a menstrual period and for only seven days after the period begins. Since most couples will abstain during the period, this reduces the "safe" season to nine or ten days...
...family has the affluence and physical stamina for child after child, why, let them enjoy reproducing themselves. If, however, a family is poverty-stricken, living in desolation and illness, where a new life might face starvation, why, just add "no sex" to its already deprived existence. However, do not abstain for too long. Duty binds to take yet another whack at producing yet another malnutrition victim...
...Negro." Romans 1:25 excoriates those "who changed the truth of God into a lie"; this becomes, in Jordanese, "These wise guys swapped God's truth for an outright lie." 1 Thessalonians 4:3 states: "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication." Jordan puts it: "God's will-that which makes you different-is that you hold back from catting around...
...into station after station for a token gallon of gas while picking up more game chances. "America's service stations stand in danger of becoming one enormous coast-to-coast casino," warns E. D. Brockett, chairman of Gulf Oil Corp., one of the few major oil companies to abstain from the games. "Costs will rise and service will suffer," says Brockett, who foresees the day when motorists will say, "Fill her up, check the oil, and where's the roulette wheel...
Most singers seem to agree that men, especially tenors, ought to eschew sex before performing, but that it does a world of good for the girls' voices. One Metropolitan Opera tenor is said to abstain for ten days prior to and ten days after each performance; his distraught wife says he sings every ten days. Ezio Pinza, on the other hand, held the belief that "the night before, it's terrible, but just before going onstage, it's wonderful." Others, like Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, follow no regimen. Says he: "If I don't make love...