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Page 64
Reference to the list of authorities I have consulted will show that some have ,
however , mentioned the subject . The Church of Rome , with that practical
wisdom which so often characterizes her , and which no Protestant prejudices
should ...
Reference to the list of authorities I have consulted will show that some have ,
however , mentioned the subject . The Church of Rome , with that practical
wisdom which so often characterizes her , and which no Protestant prejudices
should ...
Page 97
I have been consulted by persons who feared , or professed to fear , that if the
organs were not regularly exercised , they would become atrophied , or that in
some way impotence might be the result of chastity . This is the assigned reason
for ...
I have been consulted by persons who feared , or professed to fear , that if the
organs were not regularly exercised , they would become atrophied , or that in
some way impotence might be the result of chastity . This is the assigned reason
for ...
Page 100
This , perhaps , is not to be wondered at , since the very medical men he
consulted did not attribute his maladies to the real cause . Modern experience ,
however , and the confessions of recent patients who have sinned and suffered
— as ...
This , perhaps , is not to be wondered at , since the very medical men he
consulted did not attribute his maladies to the real cause . Modern experience ,
however , and the confessions of recent patients who have sinned and suffered
— as ...
Page 106
About six years ago a youth consulted me , suffering from some of the worst
effects of masturbation . He has lately come to ask my opinion on the advisability
of marriage . I find that , intellectually and physically , my patient has to a great
extent ...
About six years ago a youth consulted me , suffering from some of the worst
effects of masturbation . He has lately come to ask my opinion on the advisability
of marriage . I find that , intellectually and physically , my patient has to a great
extent ...
Page 107
He saw much of conscience - stricken young men who consulted him ; but , in his
opinion , they exaggerated their sufferings , and writers on the subject had
magnified the ill - effects of self - abuse . This gentleman and those professional
men ...
He saw much of conscience - stricken young men who consulted him ; but , in his
opinion , they exaggerated their sufferings , and writers on the subject had
magnified the ill - effects of self - abuse . This gentleman and those professional
men ...
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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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