Male Continence In America

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The United States of America, a republic founded on the principle of freedom and individual rights. However, When you think of early socialist community, you don’t necessarily think of the United States of America having them. This was the case here during the first half of the early 19th century, after the Second Great Awakening had occurred, this was the case in Kenwood in Oneida County, Upstate New York. The society was known as the Oneida Community or Oneida Perfectionists. They were a religious commune community who followed the ideals of communalism, bible communism, perfectionism, and other bizarre practices.Still to this day, their legacy is a part of American History, but today they silver production company created after the …show more content…
This allowed the complex marriage to possible because children did not limit the women mobility and freedom. Male Continence was founded because of John Hayes Noye wife, having problems with childbirth and he did not want her to go through that pain. In the continence system sex was divided into two categories one for the purpose of procreating known as propagative and the other, Amagative, which purpose was for communication and expression of another in the act of sex. Male Continence is amative and is the birth control because it prevents you from ejaculating inside the …show more content…
The practice had two governing principal. First the principal; inbreeding and the second principle of selective breeding. The idea for stirpiculture was created was when John Humphrey Noyes as he realized that he couldn’t fulfill all of his ambitions with just the current generation. Along with when he read Origin of Species So he turned to his next followers, the child of the current generation. The new generation for his goals to be reality must be holier than their preceding generation. He defended this basis of Abrahamic genealogy. With stirpiculture, Noyes was given control of who conceive children. To have children, you must be selected by him and a committee. Requirements for it were in the line be the holiest member without undesired characteristic just to be selected, but later other factors were also considered such as intelligence on the breeding process. After the birth of the child, it is taken away from the parents and put into the Children's Ward and taken care theirs by the community.This form of breeding in the community became very unpopular on many basis. Firstly, it would it took the child away from the mother due to the issue of emotional attachment which they frowned upon. Secondly, you had to be chosen to have children, and some people wanted to have children but didn't get chosen for some “undesirable reasons”. Lastly the
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