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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The cases in which an operation may be required on the prepuce are for the surgeon's decision , and are not within the scope of our present remarks . It has been , indeed , suggested by persons fully competent to form an opinion that ...
The cases in which an operation may be required on the prepuce are for the surgeon's decision , and are not within the scope of our present remarks . It has been , indeed , suggested by persons fully competent to form an opinion that ...
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This latter origin , however , is rare in very early life . As to the frequency of the habit at present among children , or even boys at school , I have been unable to obtain any very trustworthy information .
This latter origin , however , is rare in very early life . As to the frequency of the habit at present among children , or even boys at school , I have been unable to obtain any very trustworthy information .
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... in teaching them how properly to address children , as well as boys arriving at the age of puberty , that I had determined , in the present edition , to trace out a few notes which might aid parents desirous of following my advice .
... in teaching them how properly to address children , as well as boys arriving at the age of puberty , that I had determined , in the present edition , to trace out a few notes which might aid parents desirous of following my advice .
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A new power is present to be exercised , a new want to be satisfied . It is , I take it , of vital importance that boys and young men should know , not only the guilt of an illicit indulgence of their dawning passions , but also the ...
A new power is present to be exercised , a new want to be satisfied . It is , I take it , of vital importance that boys and young men should know , not only the guilt of an illicit indulgence of their dawning passions , but also the ...
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... and teaching the sufferers from them to control their feelings ; with the same object we may believe that many a hermit shut himself out of the world in order to escape the effect of female society . In the present day I am acing ...
... and teaching the sufferers from them to control their feelings ; with the same object we may believe that many a hermit shut himself out of the world in order to escape the effect of female society . In the present day I am acing ...
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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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