In both these last described ways of courting, the husband should be extra careful not to permit the weight of his body to press down heavily upon his wife.  He should wholly sustain himself on his elbows and knees, and permit her to lift herself, at least her hips, by the help of her arms around his waist.  This is no hardship for the husband, if he be a true lover.  For is he not strong, and what is his strength for but to delight his sweetheart? A true, devoted, virile and manly lover is always at the service of his sweetheart!  To delight her, is to doubly delight himself.  This is another point of which mere animals know nothing.  There is nothing in all their nature which responds to the like of this, in any way.  The whole experience is human; it is productive of a joy, of a spiritual elevation, which mere animality knows nothing of—­can know nothing of.

Playing thus together, courting each other thus (For, through all these actions, a line of complete mutualness must run!  The husband may seem to be specially accommodating himself, and all he does, to his wife’s whims or necessities; but, even so, this will be more of a delight to him than it is to her, viewed from the spiritual plane, on the principle that “it is more blessed to give than to receive”—­and no truer words than these were ever spoken—­while, at the same time, the wife, though seeming only to be gratifying herself, to be reaching after what she alone desires, yet, as a matter of fact, by her very so doing—­and the more perfectly, completely, she does this, the better—­she is gratifying and delighting her husband to the utmost possible limit) courting each other thus, the lovers will learn to “time” themselves together, perfectly, each knowing just when the other is fully ready, by a sort of spiritual consciousness, as it were, and so a perfect climax can be reached.

Take time, LET LOVE RULE AND DIRECT; BANISH ALL SELFISHNESS; Let the husband keep his head, and THE WIFE UTTERLY LOSE HERS, throwing it to the winds, to be wholly swept away by the whirlwind of her passion; feeling free, delighting, to let it go, go, go, no one cares where!  Do these things, and married life will be glorious!  Of such is the kingdom of heaven, for the truly wedded lovers!

This will be “all Greek,” or “foolishness” to the selfish and materially-minded; but to the truly wise, it will be life immeasurable.  This is a paradox, but it takes a paradox to tell the greatest truths!

So much for the act of coitus in the man-superior position, when the wife is slower timed than the husband and they adopt this method, and the accompanying means for “getting together.”  Now, if the other position is taken, that of the wife semi-superior, in the husband’s arms, as he lies partly on his back and partly on his left side, etc., here are a few points to be noted to advantage.