1911. If the imprisonment and isolation from this sex has lasted for far too many years and they thereby have become sexually weakened and can no longer perform the natural act with a partner of the opposite sex, they will continue with this masturbation or artificial act, which, in the given situation, cannot always be said to avoid causing derailment and thereby being unnatural.All governing authorities and law-makers ought to bear this situation in mind when they judge and punish people.A punishment for a so-called "crime" should absolutely not to any degree whatsoever be of such a nature that it contributes to destroying the most sensitive, mental field of the prisoner or the offender and to turning him into a mental or psychically abnormal being.No derailment, be it ever so small, from the sexual, normal line of evolution can avoid creating abnormality, and the methods society uses to moralise and uphold the principle of justice are a punishment that, in addition to depriving the beings of their liberty and sentencing them to prison life, also binds them to a state that leads them directly into perversities and sick mental states that cause them to become more and more mentally damaged.Crimes result solely from ignorance.But primitiveness is not a question of punishment.It is to the very greatest extent a question of evolution or development.But one does not develop the human being or remove its primitiveness by locking it up in even more primitive circumstances, where its very soul or psyche is damaged by it being debarred from the highest mental or psychic healthy nourishment for it: the natural satisfaction of its sexual desire.That this mental castration is the gateway to a whole series of sexual derailments is only what spiritual science shows to be a matter of course.
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