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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... tion of every circumstance connected with the generative function has been a labor of love ; and we accordingly find that whether as regards the structure , the functions , or the diseases of the organs in question , every circumstance ...
... tion of every circumstance connected with the generative function has been a labor of love ; and we accordingly find that whether as regards the structure , the functions , or the diseases of the organs in question , every circumstance ...
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... tion from this or similar causes . The only objection which can be suggested to recommend thorough cleanliness in early childhood is the supposed risk of directing the boy's attention to manipulations , which may excite sexual desires ...
... tion from this or similar causes . The only objection which can be suggested to recommend thorough cleanliness in early childhood is the supposed risk of directing the boy's attention to manipulations , which may excite sexual desires ...
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... tion and its consequences ; and this danger was perhaps the origin of circum- cision . The existence of the foreskin predisposes to many forms of syphilis , and I am fully convinced that the excessive sensibility induced by a narrow ...
... tion and its consequences ; and this danger was perhaps the origin of circum- cision . The existence of the foreskin predisposes to many forms of syphilis , and I am fully convinced that the excessive sensibility induced by a narrow ...
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... tion constitutes the very essence of life . To enable this vital function to be fulfilled , every plant , and every animal is fur- nished with organs of reproduction . As it has organs of respi- ration for breathing the air , organs of ...
... tion constitutes the very essence of life . To enable this vital function to be fulfilled , every plant , and every animal is fur- nished with organs of reproduction . As it has organs of respi- ration for breathing the air , organs of ...
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... tion . This sublime gift of transmitting life - fatal prerogative , which man continually forfeits - at once the mainstay of morality , by means of family ties , and the powerful cause of depravity - the energetic spring of life and ...
... tion . This sublime gift of transmitting life - fatal prerogative , which man continually forfeits - at once the mainstay of morality , by means of family ties , and the powerful cause of depravity - the energetic spring of life and ...
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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.