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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... practice so beneficial , that I never hesitate to recommend it in any cases where there is the least sign of irrita- tion from this or similar causes . The only objection which can be suggested to recommend thorough cleanliness in early ...
... practice so beneficial , that I never hesitate to recommend it in any cases where there is the least sign of irrita- tion from this or similar causes . The only objection which can be suggested to recommend thorough cleanliness in early ...
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... practice of climbing in gymnasia is not open in some degree to objections . The muscles chiefly called into action in climbing are those , the excessive exertion of which tends to . excite sexual feelings . Boys have , as I know ...
... practice of climbing in gymnasia is not open in some degree to objections . The muscles chiefly called into action in climbing are those , the excessive exertion of which tends to . excite sexual feelings . Boys have , as I know ...
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... practice in a young child may arise in a variety The most common is of course the bad example of other children . In ... practices . Still , every now and then , facts leak out , which show that , even into these estab- lishments , evil ...
... practice in a young child may arise in a variety The most common is of course the bad example of other children . In ... practices . Still , every now and then , facts leak out , which show that , even into these estab- lishments , evil ...
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... practice are too clear for an experienced eye to be deceived . As Lalle- mand remarks : " However young the children may be , they get thin , pale , and irritable , and their features become haggard . We notice the sunken eye , the long ...
... practice are too clear for an experienced eye to be deceived . As Lalle- mand remarks : " However young the children may be , they get thin , pale , and irritable , and their features become haggard . We notice the sunken eye , the long ...
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... practice , and kindly but solemnly warning them against it . I have noticed that all patients who have con- fessed to me that they have practised this vice , have lamented that they were not , when children , made aware of its conse ...
... practice , and kindly but solemnly warning them against it . I have noticed that all patients who have con- fessed to me that they have practised this vice , have lamented that they were not , when children , made aware of its conse ...
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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.