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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... fact , I fear you must some- what doubt this statement , but I assure you it is the literal fact , I pursued the practice from an idea of its necessity , and was fortified in my supposition ( so ignorant was I ) by the idea that , if ...
... fact , I fear you must some- what doubt this statement , but I assure you it is the literal fact , I pursued the practice from an idea of its necessity , and was fortified in my supposition ( so ignorant was I ) by the idea that , if ...
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... facts on which their admonitions are based . You are not far wrong , I am afraid , in your facts if I may judge from my experience of three great public schools and several private ones . And if I hesitate to adopt your opinion , it is ...
... facts on which their admonitions are based . You are not far wrong , I am afraid , in your facts if I may judge from my experience of three great public schools and several private ones . And if I hesitate to adopt your opinion , it is ...
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... fact , in no small degree , to form the character itself . A function so important , which does in truth , to a ... facts ? The youth , finding him- self in possession of these sexual feelings and powers , utterly ignorant of their ...
... fact , in no small degree , to form the character itself . A function so important , which does in truth , to a ... facts ? The youth , finding him- self in possession of these sexual feelings and powers , utterly ignorant of their ...
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... fact of the indulgence being lawful or unlawful does not affect the question of conti- nence . In this respect our definition differs from those in most dictionaries.1 This definition , of course , excludes the masturbator from the ...
... fact of the indulgence being lawful or unlawful does not affect the question of conti- nence . In this respect our definition differs from those in most dictionaries.1 This definition , of course , excludes the masturbator from the ...
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... fact , regimen . That there should be more testimony in favour of the remedy considered agreeable than of that involving constraint or inconvenience , is easily explicable on the supposition that the witnesses have not had experience of ...
... fact , regimen . That there should be more testimony in favour of the remedy considered agreeable than of that involving constraint or inconvenience , is easily explicable on the supposition that the witnesses have not had experience of ...
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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.