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In many species of moths no sooner is the perfect insect 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 ...
In many species of moths no sooner is the perfect insect 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 ...
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This most dangerous habit is not unfrequently , I believe , produced by irritation of
the rectum arising from worms . In other instances it arises from some morbid
irritability of the bladder . Of the existence of this latter cause another symptom ...
This most dangerous habit is not unfrequently , I believe , produced by irritation of
the rectum arising from worms . In other instances it arises from some morbid
irritability of the bladder . Of the existence of this latter cause another symptom ...
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The collection of smegma between the glans and the prepuce is almost certain to
produce irritation . PREVENTIVE TREATMENT . — The first point to be observed
will already have suggested itself - cleanliness . Yet I have never heard of any ...
The collection of smegma between the glans and the prepuce is almost certain to
produce irritation . PREVENTIVE TREATMENT . — The first point to be observed
will already have suggested itself - cleanliness . Yet I have never heard of any ...
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This term , like the word Chiromania , can properly be applied , in the case of
males , only to emission or ejaculation produced by masturbation , or undue
excitement of the sexual desires . It affords an additional surface for the
excitement of the ...
This term , like the word Chiromania , can properly be applied , in the case of
males , only to emission or ejaculation produced by masturbation , or undue
excitement of the sexual desires . It affords an additional surface for the
excitement of the ...
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... attained by almost any other means than that of the natural excitement arising
from sexual intercourse , and in children too young to emit semen , it is liable to
produce that nervous spasm which is , in the adult , accompanied by ejaculation .
... attained by almost any other means than that of the natural excitement arising
from sexual intercourse , and in children too young to emit semen , it is liable to
produce that nervous spasm which is , in the adult , accompanied by ejaculation .
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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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