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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... feeling when acquired by inheritance , but even of themselves alone beget it . We see in some children , at a very early age , an almost un- governable disposition to touch or handle the sexual organs . This most dangerous habit is not ...
... feeling when acquired by inheritance , but even of themselves alone beget it . We see in some children , at a very early age , an almost un- governable disposition to touch or handle the sexual organs . This most dangerous habit is not ...
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... feelings . Boys have , as I know , sometimes dis- covered this , for more than one person has told me that , when at school , he had found that he derived pleasure from the exer- cise , and had repeated it quite in ignorance of the ...
... feelings . Boys have , as I know , sometimes dis- covered this , for more than one person has told me that , when at school , he had found that he derived pleasure from the exer- cise , and had repeated it quite in ignorance of the ...
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... feeling is strongly against these vile practices . Still , every now and then , facts leak out , which show that , even into these estab- lishments , evil influences sometimes find their way , and the de- structive habit may take root ...
... feeling is strongly against these vile practices . Still , every now and then , facts leak out , which show that , even into these estab- lishments , evil influences sometimes find their way , and the de- structive habit may take root ...
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... feeling some indignation at not having been put better on my guard by those I considered my instructors ? Recently , however ( I am now near twenty - two ) , I happened to discover the disastrous results likely to ensue , and also that ...
... feeling some indignation at not having been put better on my guard by those I considered my instructors ? Recently , however ( I am now near twenty - two ) , I happened to discover the disastrous results likely to ensue , and also that ...
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... feeling can be so far established as to overcome the tendency , the surgeon can soon remedy the mischief that has been done by previous excesses . It is , I am convinced , from a want of attention - in parents , and those who direct the ...
... feeling can be so far established as to overcome the tendency , the surgeon can soon remedy the mischief that has been done by previous excesses . It is , I am convinced , from a want of attention - in parents , and those who direct 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.