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... DESIRE . • II . SEXUAL Indifference AMONG MARRIED MEN III . WANT OF SEXUAL FEELING IN THE FEMALE , A PAGE 154 155 160 CAUSE OF 162 • • IV . PERVERSION OF SEXUAL FEELING , A CAUSE OF 167 JJ . True Impotence . 168 I. PERMANENT ABSENCE OFf ...
... DESIRE . • II . SEXUAL Indifference AMONG MARRIED MEN III . WANT OF SEXUAL FEELING IN THE FEMALE , A PAGE 154 155 160 CAUSE OF 162 • • IV . PERVERSION OF SEXUAL FEELING , A CAUSE OF 167 JJ . True Impotence . 168 I. PERMANENT ABSENCE OFf ...
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... desires . 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 ...
... desires . 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 ...
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... desires which should have remained dormant for years to come . In a state so arti- ficial as that of our modern civilization , the children of the upper classes are sadly open to this temptation . An enervated sickly refinement , tells ...
... desires which should have remained dormant for years to come . In a state so arti- ficial as that of our modern civilization , the children of the upper classes are sadly open to this temptation . An enervated sickly refinement , tells ...
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... desires , but your puny exotic , whose intellectual education has been fostered at the expense of his physical development . Little do parents know or think of what they sacrifice in un- naturally forcing the intellectual at the expense ...
... desires , but your puny exotic , whose intellectual education has been fostered at the expense of his physical development . Little do parents know or think of what they sacrifice in un- naturally forcing the intellectual at the expense ...
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... desires , the act relieving me from such desire for some time . " I see now and regret deeply the great folly of which I have been guilty , but am I wrong in feeling some indignation at not having been put better on my guard by those I ...
... desires , the act relieving me from such desire for some time . " I see now and regret deeply the great folly of which I have been guilty , but am I wrong in feeling some indignation at not having been put better on my guard by those I ...
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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.