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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I believe that such children's curiosity is seldom excited on these subjects except as the result of suggestion by persons older than themselves . This purity and ignorant innocence in children are not in any way unnatural .
I believe that such children's curiosity is seldom excited on these subjects except as the result of suggestion by persons older than themselves . This purity and ignorant innocence in children are not in any way unnatural .
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I believe that , as in body and mind , so also in the passions , the sins of the father are frequently visited on the children . No man or woman , I am sure , can have habitually indulged their own sexual passions to the exclusion of ...
I believe that , as in body and mind , so also in the passions , the sins of the father are frequently visited on the children . No man or woman , I am sure , can have habitually indulged their own sexual passions to the exclusion of ...
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This most dangerous habit is not unfrequently , I believe , produced by irritation of the rectum arising from worms . In other instances it arises from some morbid irritability of the bladder . Of the existence of this latter cause ...
This most dangerous habit is not unfrequently , I believe , produced by irritation of the rectum arising from worms . In other instances it arises from some morbid irritability of the bladder . Of the existence of this latter cause ...
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... but I believe this vice is a very frequent cause of timidity . Habitual masturbators have a dank , moist , cold hand , very characteristic of great vital exhaustion ; their sleep is short , and most complete marasmus comes on ...
... but I believe this vice is a very frequent cause of timidity . Habitual masturbators have a dank , moist , cold hand , very characteristic of great vital exhaustion ; their sleep is short , and most complete marasmus comes on ...
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If he were , he says , to discover any boys practising or inciting others to practise the evil habit , they would of course be severely punished or even expelled ; but never having discovered such offenders , he does not believe the ...
If he were , he says , to discover any boys practising or inciting others to practise the evil habit , they would of course be severely punished or even expelled ; but never having discovered such offenders , he does not believe the ...
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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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