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MASTURBATION IN CHILDHOOD PART I. NORMAL FUNCTIONS IN YOUTH . PAGE . 17 SECOND PERIOD - YOUTH . THE FUNCTIONS AND DISORDERS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS IN YOUTH . CHAPT . I. - CONTINENCE 66 II . CELIBACY 66 III . EARLY BETROTHALS .
MASTURBATION IN CHILDHOOD PART I. NORMAL FUNCTIONS IN YOUTH . PAGE . 17 SECOND PERIOD - YOUTH . THE FUNCTIONS AND DISORDERS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS IN YOUTH . CHAPT . I. - CONTINENCE 66 II . CELIBACY 66 III . EARLY BETROTHALS .
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And when he grows older every boy should be taught that chastity means continence ; that if he would be chaste he must not by any act of his own , or by the indulgence of lascivious imaginations , cause the fruit of his body to be ...
And when he grows older every boy should be taught that chastity means continence ; that if he would be chaste he must not by any act of his own , or by the indulgence of lascivious imaginations , cause the fruit of his body to be ...
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I. - CONTINENCE . In the following pages the word " continence " will be used in the sense of voluntary and entire forbearance from indulging in sexual excitement or indulgences in any form . The abstinence must be voluntary ...
I. - CONTINENCE . In the following pages the word " continence " will be used in the sense of voluntary and entire forbearance from indulging in sexual excitement or indulgences in any form . The abstinence must be voluntary ...
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Nor is the continence which I advise , and would encourage by every means in my power , mere absence of desire arising from ignorance . That , as I have already said , p . 41 , I consider a dangerous condition .
Nor is the continence which I advise , and would encourage by every means in my power , mere absence of desire arising from ignorance . That , as I have already said , p . 41 , I consider a dangerous condition .
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This is only physical continence it is incomplete without mental continence also . Such men as these , supposing the sexual excitement is followed by nocturnal emissions , as it often is , and this with great detriment to the nervous ...
This is only physical continence it is incomplete without mental continence also . Such men as these , supposing the sexual excitement is followed by nocturnal emissions , as it often is , and this with great detriment to the nervous ...
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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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