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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On the subjects of Impotence and Spermatorrhoea , those bugbears of so many weak and foolish persons , and sources of inexhaustible wealth to the quack fraternity , Mr. Acton discourses ...
On the subjects of Impotence and Spermatorrhoea , those bugbears of so many weak and foolish persons , and sources of inexhaustible wealth to the quack fraternity , Mr. Acton discourses ...
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NORMAL FUNCTIONS CHAPT . I. MARITAL EXCESSES II . - IMPOTENCE PART II . DISORDERS IN THE ADULT PAGE 91 91 99 109 117 118 • 120 121 123 124 132 148 148 154 ABNORMAL 66 66 66 པ J. Temporary or False Impotence CONTENTS .
NORMAL FUNCTIONS CHAPT . I. MARITAL EXCESSES II . - IMPOTENCE PART II . DISORDERS IN THE ADULT PAGE 91 91 99 109 117 118 • 120 121 123 124 132 148 148 154 ABNORMAL 66 66 66 པ J. Temporary or False Impotence CONTENTS .
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ABNORMAL 66 66 66 པ J. Temporary or False Impotence . I. SEXUAL INDifference , or TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF DESIRE . II . SEXUAL INDIFFERENCE AMONG MARRIED Men III . WANT OF SEXUAL FEELING IN THE FEMALE , A CAUSE OF IV .
ABNORMAL 66 66 66 པ J. Temporary or False Impotence . I. SEXUAL INDifference , or TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF DESIRE . II . SEXUAL INDIFFERENCE AMONG MARRIED Men III . WANT OF SEXUAL FEELING IN THE FEMALE , A CAUSE OF IV .
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The abstinence must be voluntary , for continence must not be confounded with impotence . An impotent man is continent in a sense , but his continence , not depending on any effort of the will , is not what we are now speaking of .
The abstinence must be voluntary , for continence must not be confounded with impotence . An impotent man is continent in a sense , but his continence , not depending on any effort of the will , is not what we are now speaking of .
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I have been consulted by persons who feared , or professed to fear , that if the organs were not regularly exercised , they would become atrophied , or that in some way impotence might be the result of chastity .
I have been consulted by persons who feared , or professed to fear , that if the organs were not regularly exercised , they would become atrophied , or that in some way impotence might be the result of chastity .
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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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