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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If they were wise they would rather feel profound anxiety ; and he would be an unfaithful or unwise medical friend who did not , if an opportunity occurred , warn them that such a boy , unsuspicious and innocent as he is , ought to be ...
If they were wise they would rather feel profound anxiety ; and he would be an unfaithful or unwise medical friend who did not , if an opportunity occurred , warn them that such a boy , unsuspicious and innocent as he is , ought to be ...
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... inflicted on nutrition during the development of the body ; nevertheless he has seen the consequences disappear readily , and all the functions become re - established ; not so , however , when masturbation occurs after puberty .
... inflicted on nutrition during the development of the body ; nevertheless he has seen the consequences disappear readily , and all the functions become re - established ; not so , however , when masturbation occurs after puberty .
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It does not occur to his inexperienced mind and heart that every illicit pleasure is a degradation , to be bitterly regretted hereafter - a link in a chain that does not need many more to be too strong to break .
It does not occur to his inexperienced mind and heart that every illicit pleasure is a degradation , to be bitterly regretted hereafter - a link in a chain that does not need many more to be too strong to break .
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The strictly continent suffer little or none of this irritability ; but the incontinent , as soon as seminal plethora occurs , are sure to be troubled in one or other of the ways above spoken of : while the remedy of indulgence ...
The strictly continent suffer little or none of this irritability ; but the incontinent , as soon as seminal plethora occurs , are sure to be troubled in one or other of the ways above spoken of : while the remedy of indulgence ...
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In my own time two such cases have occurred . Not only was the sentence carried out , but all academic opinion endorsed it ; that opinion , though lenient enough to the undergraduate offender , is always inflexible against the ...
In my own time two such cases have occurred . Not only was the sentence carried out , but all academic opinion endorsed it ; that opinion , though lenient enough to the undergraduate offender , is always inflexible against the ...
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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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