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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... indulged their own sexual passions to the exclusion of higher and nobler pleasures and employments , without at ... indulging in similar habits and feelings . No doubt vicious tendencies are frequently , perhaps most frequently acquired ...
... indulged their own sexual passions to the exclusion of higher and nobler pleasures and employments , without at ... indulging in similar habits and feelings . No doubt vicious tendencies are frequently , perhaps most frequently acquired ...
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... indulged in , or other circum- stances render it desirable , by pointing out the dreadful evils that result from the practice , and kindly but solemnly warning them against it . I have noticed that all patients who have con- fessed to ...
... indulged in , or other circum- stances render it desirable , by pointing out the dreadful evils that result from the practice , and kindly but solemnly warning them against it . I have noticed that all patients who have con- fessed to ...
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... indulging in evil propensities , the responsi- bility of warning them against habits which he hopes they have never ... indulged in at all , and declines to interfere . If recent testi- mony is to be believed , it is certain that these ...
... indulging in evil propensities , the responsi- bility of warning them against habits which he hopes they have never ... indulged in at all , and declines to interfere . If recent testi- mony is to be believed , it is certain that these ...
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... indulgence they can practice at this early age . To suppose that a parent can keep such a sexually disposed child from a knowledge of much that he had better not be ac- quainted with , shows a grievous ignorance of the infantile mind ...
... indulgence they can practice at this early age . To suppose that a parent can keep such a sexually disposed child from a knowledge of much that he had better not be ac- quainted with , shows a grievous ignorance of the infantile mind ...
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... indulged in the habit , and , without a thought of its bane- ful consequences , have practised it for years . In fact , I fear you must some- what doubt this statement , but I assure you it is the literal fact , I pursued the practice ...
... indulged in the habit , and , without a thought of its bane- ful consequences , have practised it for years . In fact , I fear you must some- what doubt this statement , but I assure you it is the literal fact , I pursued the practice ...
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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.