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Stockham, Alice Bunker - Karezza - A Letter 'then heaven is easily reached'
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Karezza – Ethics of Marriage 1903 second edition – Dr Alice B Stockham
Dear Dr. Stockham:
I want to say that I knew of, believed in, and practiced Karezza long before I knew there was such a book, and still believe it most fully.
The teachings of Karezza came to me in a critical and trying time of my life. I had been married several years, and the harmony between my wife and self seemed dying out.
She had loved me dearly, but the old sex embrace had no attraction for her, and grew more and more repulsive. The new teaching brought us into a new heaven and a new earth.
I cannot tell you how happy we became.
We were simply lovers, but such lovers as we had never been before. An indescribable tenderness pervaded all our relations. My wife proved a sexual power and perfection rare and wonderful. Her mental and moral nature both developed until I hardly knew her, and I for the first time was sure that I was a poet.
And all this ever increased until her death some years after.
Karezza seems to me to be the sex blending of the moral natures, it seems to call out and arouse to an ecstasy of delight and power the spiritual and poetic nature of both man and woman. It gives strength as if it were the key to unlock powers.
Karezza is perfectly successful where the two come together with a mutual loving desire to assist and bless each other, to blend and exchange spiritual gifts, to inspire each other to the noblest moods.
Then the “Heaven” stage is easily reached.
J.W.L.
March, 1901