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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... less complete erection . 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 ...
... less complete erection . 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 ...
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... less importance in its consequences than it is here ) , but probably a nurse , parent , schoolmaster , or even doctor , would be somewhat astonished at its being proposed that a boy of twelve should be told ( for if not told he will ...
... less importance in its consequences than it is here ) , but probably a nurse , parent , schoolmaster , or even doctor , would be somewhat astonished at its being proposed that a boy of twelve should be told ( for if not told he will ...
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... less into so filthy a one as masturbation . And , indeed , it is a good deal to ask of a schoolmaster . He naturally feels that , when he has done all he can in the way of supervision and management to prevent his boys from indulging in ...
... less into so filthy a one as masturbation . And , indeed , it is a good deal to ask of a schoolmaster . He naturally feels that , when he has done all he can in the way of supervision and management to prevent his boys from indulging in ...
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... less openly . To make virtue , propriety , self - restraint fashionable ( so to speak ) should be , it appears to me , one of the chief objects at which masters and tutors should aim . With admirable common sense and shrewdness the Rev ...
... less openly . To make virtue , propriety , self - restraint fashionable ( so to speak ) should be , it appears to me , one of the chief objects at which masters and tutors should aim . With admirable common sense and shrewdness the Rev ...
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... less of censorship of opinion . I know that millions of books , infidel and bad books , swarm out of the press , and yet I would not wish to see them stopped by force , except , of course , such as are shocking to public decency . Great ...
... less of censorship of opinion . I know that millions of books , infidel and bad books , swarm out of the press , and yet I would not wish to see them stopped by force , except , of course , such as are shocking to public decency . Great ...
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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.