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 first and only feeling exhibited between the sexes in the young should be that pure fraternal and sisterly affection , which it is the glory and blessing of our simple English homelife to create and foster with all its softening ...
The first and only feeling exhibited between the sexes in the young should be that pure fraternal and sisterly affection , which it is the glory and blessing of our simple English homelife to create and foster with all its softening ...
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What the cause of this early sexual predisposition in a young child may be , it is difficult to lay down with certainty in any given case . My own belief is , that there are sexual predisposing causes ...
What the cause of this early sexual predisposition in a young child may be , it is difficult to lay down with certainty in any given case . My own belief is , that there are sexual predisposing causes ...
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It is to be wished , that all medical men attached to large institutions where young boys are collected , would bear this in mind . However natural the delicacy they feel in investigating such ailments , yet in this , perhaps above all ...
It is to be wished , that all medical men attached to large institutions where young boys are collected , would bear this in mind . However natural the delicacy they feel in investigating such ailments , yet in this , perhaps above all ...
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I am fully convinced from the acknowledgments of patients that the effects of advice to young men has had no such tendency . Even if the dreaded evil should arise , the same boy who had received such recommendation , supposing the ...
I am fully convinced from the acknowledgments of patients that the effects of advice to young men has had no such tendency . Even if the dreaded evil should arise , the same boy who had received such recommendation , supposing the ...
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Of this melancholy and repulsive habit as it appears in , and affects young children , I shall say something here . Its effects in after life will be dealt with hereafter . CHAPT . II . - MASTURBATION IN CHILDHOOD .
Of this melancholy and repulsive habit as it appears in , and affects young children , I shall say something here . Its effects in after life will be dealt with hereafter . CHAPT . II . - MASTURBATION IN CHILDHOOD .
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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.