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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... produced than it proceeds at once to the exercise of the function of procreation , which completed , its own existence ceases . Very different should be the case with the human being , who needs all the strength , and all the nutrition ...
... produced than it proceeds at once to the exercise of the function of procreation , which completed , its own existence ceases . Very different should be the case with the human being , who needs all the strength , and all the nutrition ...
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... producing sexual precocity has not been suffi- ciently noted . In the child the prepuce entirely covers the glans penis , keeping it in that constantly susceptible state that the contact of two folds of mucous membrane induces . We must ...
... producing sexual precocity has not been suffi- ciently noted . In the child the prepuce entirely covers the glans penis , keeping it in that constantly susceptible state that the contact of two folds of mucous membrane induces . We must ...
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... produce irritation . PREVENTIVE TREATMENT . - The first point to be observed will already have suggested itself - cleanliness . Yet I have never heard of any steps being taken by those having the care of youth to induce boys to adopt ...
... produce irritation . PREVENTIVE TREATMENT . - The first point to be observed will already have suggested itself - cleanliness . Yet I have never heard of any steps being taken by those having the care of youth to induce boys to adopt ...
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... produced by masturbation , or undue excitement of the sexual desires . It affords an addi- tional surface for the excitement of the reflex action , and aggravates an instinct rather than supplies a want . In the unmarried it ...
... produced by masturbation , or undue excitement of the sexual desires . It affords an addi- tional surface for the excitement of the reflex action , and aggravates an instinct rather than supplies a want . In the unmarried it ...
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... produce that nervous spasm which is , in the adult , accompanied by ejaculation . of ways . This degrading practice in a young child may arise in a variety The most common is of course the bad example of other children . In other cases ...
... produce that nervous spasm which is , in the adult , accompanied by ejaculation . of ways . This degrading practice in a young child may arise in a variety The most common is of course the bad example of other children . In other cases ...
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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.