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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... pleasure ( for a boy ) in her society . His penchant does not take the ordinary form of a boy's good nature , but little attentions that are gener- ally reserved for a later period prove that his feelings is differ- ent , and sadly ...
... pleasure ( for a boy ) in her society . His penchant does not take the ordinary form of a boy's good nature , but little attentions that are gener- ally reserved for a later period prove that his feelings is differ- ent , and sadly ...
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... pleasures and employments , without at least running the risk of finding that a disposition to follow a similar career has been inherited by their offspring . It is in this way only that we can explain the early and apparently almost ...
... pleasures and employments , without at least running the risk of finding that a disposition to follow a similar career has been inherited by their offspring . It is in this way only that we can explain the early and apparently almost ...
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... 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 this particular one has the effect I have described , I should certainly ...
... 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 this particular one has the effect I have described , I should certainly ...
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... pleasure , and there is then great danger of the habit becoming confirmed . The boy's health fails , he is troubled with indigestion , his intellectual powers are dimmed , he becomes pale , emaciated , and depressed in spirits ...
... pleasure , and there is then great danger of the habit becoming confirmed . The boy's health fails , he is troubled with indigestion , his intellectual powers are dimmed , he becomes pale , emaciated , and depressed in spirits ...
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... pleasure from the act , if he is once put in pos- such a case I told him I should have no hesitation in quietly talking to the boy without taxing him with any evil practices ( which the lad would proba- bly deny ) . I should tell him ...
... pleasure from the act , if he is once put in pos- such a case I told him I should have no hesitation in quietly talking to the boy without taxing him with any evil practices ( which the lad would proba- bly deny ) . I should tell him ...
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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.