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 the work now before us , all essential detail upon its subject matter is clearly and scientifically given . We recommend it accordingly , as meeting a necessary requisiton of the day , refusing to join in that opinion which regards ...
In the work now before us , all essential detail upon its subject matter is clearly and scientifically given . We recommend it accordingly , as meeting a necessary requisiton of the day , refusing to join in that opinion which regards ...
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What the cause of this early sexual predisposition in a young child may be , it is difficult to lay down with certainty in any given case . My own belief is , that there are sexual predisposing causes ...
What the cause of this early sexual predisposition in a young child may be , it is difficult to lay down with certainty in any given case . My own belief is , that there are sexual predisposing causes ...
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Use has , however , given it a larger signification . It is now employed to express ejaculation or emission attained by almost any other means than that of the natural excitement arising from sexual intercourse , and in children too ...
Use has , however , given it a larger signification . It is now employed to express ejaculation or emission attained by almost any other means than that of the natural excitement arising from sexual intercourse , and in children too ...
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I cannot venture to print the accounts patients have given me of what they have seen or even been drawn into at schools . I would fain hope that such abominations are things of the past , and cannot be now repeated under more perfect ...
I cannot venture to print the accounts patients have given me of what they have seen or even been drawn into at schools . I would fain hope that such abominations are things of the past , and cannot be now repeated under more perfect ...
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He might be given to understand that it does not merely mean that all indecency and foul language must be shunned . The child might be told that he must keep his hands from meddling with his secret parts , except when the necessities of ...
He might be given to understand that it does not merely mean that all indecency and foul language must be shunned . The child might be told that he must keep his hands from meddling with his secret parts , except when the necessities of ...
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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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