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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We think Mr. Acton has done good service to society by grappling manfully with sexual vice , and we trust that others , whose position as men of science and teachers enable them to speak with authority , will assist in combating and ...
We think Mr. Acton has done good service to society by grappling manfully with sexual vice , and we trust that others , whose position as men of science and teachers enable them to speak with authority , will assist in combating and ...
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... but I believe this vice is a very frequent cause of timidity . Habitual masturbators have a dank , moist , cold hand , very characteristic of great vital exhaustion ; their sleep is short , and most complete marasmus comes on ...
... but I believe this vice is a very frequent cause of timidity . Habitual masturbators have a dank , moist , cold hand , very characteristic of great vital exhaustion ; their sleep is short , and most complete marasmus comes on ...
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I have noticed that all patients who have confessed to me that they have practised this vice , have lamented that they were not , when children , made aware of its consequences , and I have been entreated over and over again to urge on ...
I have noticed that all patients who have confessed to me that they have practised this vice , have lamented that they were not , when children , made aware of its consequences , and I have been entreated over and over again to urge on ...
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I esteem it false delicacy and a wrong , that a parent should hesitate to warn his boy , when , at the most , he can only anticipate by a few days or weeks the offices of a youthful schoolmaster in vice , as ignorant of consequences as ...
I esteem it false delicacy and a wrong , that a parent should hesitate to warn his boy , when , at the most , he can only anticipate by a few days or weeks the offices of a youthful schoolmaster in vice , as ignorant of consequences as ...
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There is never any lack of fellowship and countenance for vice ; the majority too often favor or support it more or less openly . To make virtue , propriety , self - restraint fashionable ( so to speak ) should be , it appears to me ...
There is never any lack of fellowship and countenance for vice ; the majority too often favor or support it more or less openly . To make virtue , propriety , self - restraint fashionable ( so to speak ) should be , it appears to me ...
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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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