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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... frequently disinclined to acknowledge that their children can have any information on sexual matters . They should bear in mind that , although the father may have abstained from alluding to sexual subjects , yet a mere child , with its ...
... frequently disinclined to acknowledge that their children can have any information on sexual matters . They should bear in mind that , although the father may have abstained from alluding to sexual subjects , yet a mere child , with its ...
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... frequently commenced and practised in bed . An additional advantage would perhaps be obtained if each boy in a school had not only a separate bed , but a separate com- partment in which he might enjoy some sort of privacy . A ...
... frequently commenced and practised in bed . An additional advantage would perhaps be obtained if each boy in a school had not only a separate bed , but a separate com- partment in which he might enjoy some sort of privacy . A ...
Page 41
... frequently been done , and by the same means of frank sympathy , thorough earnestness , and spotless rectitude in the instructor , it can be done again . The help which such a tone of feeling would be to a wavering boy is incalculable ...
... frequently been done , and by the same means of frank sympathy , thorough earnestness , and spotless rectitude in the instructor , it can be done again . The help which such a tone of feeling would be to a wavering boy is incalculable ...
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... frequently productive of distress , is often a struggle hard to be borne , -still harder to be completely victori- ous in , -is not to be at all regarded as an argument that it is an evil . A thoughtful writer has on this subject some ...
... frequently productive of distress , is often a struggle hard to be borne , -still harder to be completely victori- ous in , -is not to be at all regarded as an argument that it is an evil . A thoughtful writer has on this subject some ...
Page 63
... intention , when I commenced this work , to put myself forward as a religious adviser , but I so frequently re- ceive painful letters from young men , seeking advice how to curb the lusts of the flesh , that I was induced CONTINENCE . 63.
... intention , when I commenced this work , to put myself forward as a religious adviser , but I so frequently re- ceive painful letters from young men , seeking advice how to curb the lusts of the flesh , that I was induced CONTINENCE . 63.
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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.