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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In many species of moths no sooner is the perfect insect produced than it proceeds at once to the exercise of the function of procreation , which completed , its own existence ceases . Very different should be the case with the human ...
In many species of moths no sooner is the perfect insect produced than it proceeds at once to the exercise of the function of procreation , which completed , its own existence ceases . Very different should be the case with the human ...
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I shall not be suspected of undervaluing athletic exercises , but if this particular one has the effect I have described , I should certainly advise its discontinuance . Those who have the care of children cannot bear this fact too ...
I shall not be suspected of undervaluing athletic exercises , but if this particular one has the effect I have described , I should certainly advise its discontinuance . Those who have the care of children cannot bear this fact too ...
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The boy's health fails , he is troubled with indigestion , his intellectual powers are dimmed , he becomes pale , emaciated , and depressed in spirits ; exercise he has no longer any taste for , and he seeks solitude .
The boy's health fails , he is troubled with indigestion , his intellectual powers are dimmed , he becomes pale , emaciated , and depressed in spirits ; exercise he has no longer any taste for , and he seeks solitude .
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We must , however , recollect , that it is not the strong athletic boy , fond of healthy exercise , who thus early shows marks of sexual desires , but your puny exotic , whose intellectual education has been fostered at the expense of ...
We must , however , recollect , that it is not the strong athletic boy , fond of healthy exercise , who thus early shows marks of sexual desires , but your puny exotic , whose intellectual education has been fostered at the expense of ...
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Experience has proved that to effect this , there is nothing so good as gymnastic exercises regularly employed ... No doubt can exist that when the blood is diverted to the muscles as it is by taking violent exercise , semen is secreted ...
Experience has proved that to effect this , there is nothing so good as gymnastic exercises regularly employed ... No doubt can exist that when the blood is diverted to the muscles as it is by taking violent exercise , semen is secreted ...
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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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