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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You will see him single out one girl , and evidently derive an unusual 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 generally reserved for a ...
You will see him single out one girl , and evidently derive an unusual 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 generally reserved for a ...
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No man or woman , I am sure , can have habitually indulged their own sexual passions to the exclusion of higher and nobler pleasures and employments , without at least running the risk of finding that a disposition to follow a similar ...
No man or woman , I am sure , can have habitually indulged their own sexual passions to the exclusion of higher and nobler pleasures and employments , without at least running the risk of finding that a disposition to follow a similar ...
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Boys have , as I know , sometimes discovered this , for more than one person has told me that , when at school , he had found that he derived pleasure from the exercise , and had repeated it quite in ignorance of the consequences .
Boys have , as I know , sometimes discovered this , for more than one person has told me that , when at school , he had found that he derived pleasure from the exercise , and had repeated it quite in ignorance of the consequences .
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Occasionally , the emission gives pleasure , and there is then great danger of the habit becoming confirmed . ... At a later period the youth cannot so easily minister to his solitary pleasures , and he excites his organs the more ...
Occasionally , the emission gives pleasure , and there is then great danger of the habit becoming confirmed . ... At a later period the youth cannot so easily minister to his solitary pleasures , and he excites his organs the more ...
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One great advantage in early warning a boy , therefore , is that , as he probably derives little or no pleasure from the act , if he is once put in possuch a case I told him I should have no hesitation in quietly talking to the boy ...
One great advantage in early warning a boy , therefore , is that , as he probably derives little or no pleasure from the act , if he is once put in possuch a case I told him I should have no hesitation in quietly talking to the boy ...
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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.