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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... persons , and sources of inexhaustible wealth to the quack fraternity , Mr. Acton discourses with good sense , and indignantly exposes the nefarious tricks of the scoundrels , who , on the pre- tence of curing a disease which often ...
... persons , and sources of inexhaustible wealth to the quack fraternity , Mr. Acton discourses with good sense , and indignantly exposes the nefarious tricks of the scoundrels , who , on the pre- tence of curing a disease which often ...
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... PERSONS WHO DO NOT KNOW 66 • THE CONSEQUENCES OF REPEATED ACTS OF SEXUAL IN- TERCOURSE , AND COMMIT EXCESSES FROM IGNORANCE II . - FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS IN PERSONS WHO KNOW THE CON- SEQUENCES OF SEXUAL EXCESSES , BUT CANNOT CONTROL THEIR ...
... PERSONS WHO DO NOT KNOW 66 • THE CONSEQUENCES OF REPEATED ACTS OF SEXUAL IN- TERCOURSE , AND COMMIT EXCESSES FROM IGNORANCE II . - FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS IN PERSONS WHO KNOW THE CON- SEQUENCES OF SEXUAL EXCESSES , BUT CANNOT CONTROL THEIR ...
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... persons older than themselves . This purity and ignorant innocence in children are not in any way unnatural . It is true that a different rule prevails among many of the lower animals . For instance , no one can have seen young lambs ...
... persons older than themselves . This purity and ignorant innocence in children are not in any way unnatural . It is true that a different rule prevails among many of the lower animals . For instance , no one can have seen young lambs ...
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... persons , as will be mentioned here- after ( p . 77 ) , a morbid sensibility of the external organs , that is excessively troublesome and often painful . This symptom may , I believe , appear very early in life , and , if not removed ...
... persons , as will be mentioned here- after ( p . 77 ) , a morbid sensibility of the external organs , that is excessively troublesome and often painful . This symptom may , I believe , appear very early in life , and , if not removed ...
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... person has told me that , when at school , he had found that he derived pleasure from the exer- cise , and had repeated it quite in ignorance of the consequences . I shall not be suspected of undervaluing athletic exercises , but if ...
... person has told me that , when at school , he had found that he derived pleasure from the exer- cise , and had repeated it quite in ignorance of the consequences . I shall not be suspected of undervaluing athletic exercises , but if ...
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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.