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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It would be as well if it were recognized by parents and nurses that this often depends upon a more or less complete erection . PREDISPOSING CAUSES . - What the cause of this early sexual predisposition in a young child may be , it is ...
It would be as well if it were recognized by parents and nurses that this often depends upon a more or less complete erection . PREDISPOSING CAUSES . - What the cause of this early sexual predisposition in a young child may be , it is ...
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Children are educated to remove dirt from every other part of their bodies ( where it is of less importance in its consequences than it is here ) , but probably a nurse , parent , schoolmaster , or even doctor , would be somewhat ...
Children are educated to remove dirt from every other part of their bodies ( where it is of less importance in its consequences than it is here ) , but probably a nurse , parent , schoolmaster , or even doctor , would be somewhat ...
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if proper care be taken to see that boys are well brought up , they will not fall into dirty habits of any kind , much less into so filthy a one as masturbation . And , indeed , it is a good deal to ask of a schoolmaster .
if proper care be taken to see that boys are well brought up , they will not fall into dirty habits of any kind , much less into so filthy a one as masturbation . And , indeed , it is a good deal to ask of a schoolmaster .
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There is never any lack of fellowship and countenance for vice ; the majority too often favor or support it more or less openly . To make virtue , propriety , self - restraint fashionable ( so to speak ) should be , it appears to me ...
There is never any lack of fellowship and countenance for vice ; the majority too often favor or support it more or less openly . To make virtue , propriety , self - restraint fashionable ( so to speak ) should be , it appears to me ...
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Mr. Robertson , of Brighton , and as they have a practical bearing on the question , I reproduce them here : - " I would far rather that there was much less of censorship of opinion . I know that millions of books , infidel and bad ...
Mr. Robertson , of Brighton , and as they have a practical bearing on the question , I reproduce them here : - " I would far rather that there was much less of censorship of opinion . I know that millions of books , infidel and bad ...
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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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