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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... matter is clearly and scientifi- cally given . We recommend it accordingly , as meeting a necessary requisiton of the day , refusing to join in that opinion which regards the consideration of the topics in question as beyond the duties ...
... matter is clearly and scientifi- cally given . We recommend it accordingly , as meeting a necessary requisiton of the day , refusing to join in that opinion which regards the consideration of the topics in question as beyond the duties ...
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... matters because forsooth some ill consequences may arise has no longer any influence on me . Daily experience teaches me that much prejudice has too long existed on these questions . I am fully convinced from the acknowledgments of ...
... matters because forsooth some ill consequences may arise has no longer any influence on me . Daily experience teaches me that much prejudice has too long existed on these questions . I am fully convinced from the acknowledgments of ...
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... matters to their sons . In addition to the instinctive shrinking which every right - minded person must feel from put- ting ideas of impurity into a child's innocent mind , a parent's pride leads him to hope that his boy would not ...
... matters to their sons . In addition to the instinctive shrinking which every right - minded person must feel from put- ting ideas of impurity into a child's innocent mind , a parent's pride leads him to hope that his boy would not ...
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... matters . In all cases , I would tell them , the best preventive step to be taken is to watch their children , if not actually to warn them against what it is to be hoped they are ignorant of , and to develop all their muscular powers ...
... matters . In all cases , I would tell them , the best preventive step to be taken is to watch their children , if not actually to warn them against what it is to be hoped they are ignorant of , and to develop all their muscular powers ...
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... matters . They should bear in mind that , although the father may have abstained from alluding to sexual subjects , yet a mere child , with its keen curiosity , and eyes always on the alert for anything unusual among domestic animals ...
... matters . They should bear in mind that , although the father may have abstained from alluding to sexual subjects , yet a mere child , with its keen curiosity , and eyes always on the alert for anything unusual among domestic animals ...
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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.