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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Education , of course , still further separates children , as they grow into boys and girls ; and the instinctive and powerful check of natural modesty is an additional safeguard . Thus it happens that with most healthy and well brought ...
Education , of course , still further separates children , as they grow into boys and girls ; and the instinctive and powerful check of natural modesty is an additional safeguard . Thus it happens that with most healthy and well brought ...
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Nothing of course can be more important than carefully to guard against unnecessary manipulation from whatever cause . Children should be early taught not to play with the external organs . Without giving any reason , they may be ...
Nothing of course can be more important than carefully to guard against unnecessary manipulation from whatever cause . Children should be early taught not to play with the external organs . Without giving any reason , they may be ...
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titillation and friction of the virile member with the hand : and in the course of the next few pages such will be the meaning of the term . Use has , however , given it a larger signification . It is now employed to express ejaculation ...
titillation and friction of the virile member with the hand : and in the course of the next few pages such will be the meaning of the term . Use has , however , given it a larger signification . It is now employed to express ejaculation ...
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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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Whatever may be considered the best course for ordinary children , on one point my mind is fully made up . fully made up . If I saw a child , a few years old , paying attention to female children only , and toying with them , I should ...
Whatever may be considered the best course for ordinary children , on one point my mind is fully made up . fully made up . If I saw a child , a few years old , paying attention to female children only , and toying with them , I should ...
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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.
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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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