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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This vague alarm that we must not allude to these sexual matters because forsooth some ill consequences may arise has no longer any influence on me . Daily experience teaches me that much prejudice has too long existed on these ...
This vague alarm that we must not allude to these sexual matters because forsooth some ill consequences may arise has no longer any influence on me . Daily experience teaches me that much prejudice has too long existed on these ...
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This degrading practice in a young child may arise in a variety of ways . The most common is of course the bad example of other children . In other cases , vicious or foolish female servants suggest the idea . In such sexually disposed ...
This degrading practice in a young child may arise in a variety of ways . The most common is of course the bad example of other children . In other cases , vicious or foolish female servants suggest the idea . In such sexually disposed ...
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We notice the sunken eye , the long , cadaverous - looking countenance , the downcast look which seems to arise from a consciousness in the boy that his habits are suspected , and , at a later period , from the ascertained fact that his ...
We notice the sunken eye , the long , cadaverous - looking countenance , the downcast look which seems to arise from a consciousness in the boy that his habits are suspected , and , at a later period , from the ascertained fact that his ...
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... mind if we could acquire more power of volition , and endeavor by our energy to disperse the clouds which occasionally arise within our own horizon - if we resolutely tore the first threads of the net which gloom and CONTINENCE .
... mind if we could acquire more power of volition , and endeavor by our energy to disperse the clouds which occasionally arise within our own horizon - if we resolutely tore the first threads of the net which gloom and CONTINENCE .
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Before long , again , other and more difficult questions will arise . A pure and innocent affection awakes within him all that is best and noblest , and in the new delights he exults in having discovered a way of reconciling duty and ...
Before long , again , other and more difficult questions will arise . A pure and innocent affection awakes within him all that is best and noblest , and in the new delights he exults in having discovered a way of reconciling duty and ...
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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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