The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life: Considered in Their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations |
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The sexes , it is true , in most English homes , are allowed unrestricted companionship . Experience shows , however , that this intimacy is in the main unattended with evil results . In the immense majority of instances , indeed , it ...
The sexes , it is true , in most English homes , are allowed unrestricted companionship . Experience shows , however , that this intimacy is in the main unattended with evil results . In the immense majority of instances , indeed , it ...
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But this is precisely what it does ; and I cannot but think it of extreme importance not to allow a bugbear to be made out of that , which on the face of the matter is God's provision that the unmarried man shall not be harmed by ...
But this is precisely what it does ; and I cannot but think it of extreme importance not to allow a bugbear to be made out of that , which on the face of the matter is God's provision that the unmarried man shall not be harmed by ...
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O fathers ! be careful not to allow your children to read romances . These sometimes do more harm than even obscene books : they infuse into young persons certain malignant affections , which destroy devotion , and afterwards impel them ...
O fathers ! be careful not to allow your children to read romances . These sometimes do more harm than even obscene books : they infuse into young persons certain malignant affections , which destroy devotion , and afterwards impel them ...
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There are patients who can hardly allow the air to blow upon , or the clothes to touch their sexual organs . Such sensitive persons are afraid of using cold water , they dread the most cursory examination , and declare it would make ...
There are patients who can hardly allow the air to blow upon , or the clothes to touch their sexual organs . Such sensitive persons are afraid of using cold water , they dread the most cursory examination , and declare it would make ...
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Of course every rational person must be an advocate for celibacy , or rather , the strictest continence , in the very young , and will admit that the youth should not only physically abstain , but so exercise his will as not to allow ...
Of course every rational person must be an advocate for celibacy , or rather , the strictest continence , in the very young , and will admit that the youth should not only physically abstain , but so exercise his will as not to allow ...
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Page 50 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions ; but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.
Page 47 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 328 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered, — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
Page 164 - As a general rule, a modest woman seldom desires any sexual gratification for herself. She submits to her husband, but only to please him; and, but for the desire of maternity, would far rather be relieved from his attentions.
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| Title | The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life: Considered in Their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations |
| Author | William Acton |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Lindsay & Blakiston, 1871 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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