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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Page 87
... excesses . The strictest continence , therefore , in the unmarried and very moderate sexual indulgence in the married state , best befits any one engaged in serious studies . In making this statement , however , I am bound to admit that ...
... excesses . The strictest continence , therefore , in the unmarried and very moderate sexual indulgence in the married state , best befits any one engaged in serious studies . In making this statement , however , I am bound to admit that ...
Page 117
... excess I am not sure . Delicate con- stitutions , with a consumptive tendency , are often very suscepti- ble of sexual excitement . They are consequently peculiarly liable to nocturnal emissions , and to the temptation to commit excesses ...
... excess I am not sure . Delicate con- stitutions , with a consumptive tendency , are often very suscepti- ble of sexual excitement . They are consequently peculiarly liable to nocturnal emissions , and to the temptation to commit excesses ...
Page 118
... excesses , or very frequent nocturnal emissions , the effects will be very similar . If we here treat of masturbation , it is because this vice is one more readily and easily practised and repeated by young men , and to it , therefore ...
... excesses , or very frequent nocturnal emissions , the effects will be very similar . If we here treat of masturbation , it is because this vice is one more readily and easily practised and repeated by young men , and to it , therefore ...
Page 119
... excesses , and treatment is prescribed calculated to enable the patient to gain mastery of his will and to exert self - control . As soon as this power of exercising self - restraint is gained , the usual tonics , stimulants , and ...
... excesses , and treatment is prescribed calculated to enable the patient to gain mastery of his will and to exert self - control . As soon as this power of exercising self - restraint is gained , the usual tonics , stimulants , and ...
Page 134
... excesses must not be committed . The frequent complaint heard from persons who have committed excesses , that they experience no more pleasure in the act , is the best evidence we can have that nature's laws have been infringed . The ...
... excesses must not be committed . The frequent complaint heard from persons who have committed excesses , that they experience no more pleasure in the act , is the best evidence we can have that nature's laws have been infringed . The ...
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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.