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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... habit for themselves . This latter origin , however , is rare in very early life . As to the frequency of the habit at present among children , or even boys at school , I have been unable to obtain any very trustworthy information ...
... habit for themselves . This latter origin , however , is rare in very early life . As to the frequency of the habit at present among children , or even boys at school , I have been unable to obtain any very trustworthy information ...
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... habits are suspected , and , at a later period , from the ascertained fact that his virility is lost . I wish by no means to assert that every boy unable to look another in the face ... habit is left off , or has 26 DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD .
... habits are suspected , and , at a later period , from the ascertained fact that his virility is lost . I wish by no means to assert that every boy unable to look another in the face ... habit is left off , or has 26 DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD .
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... habit is left off , or has not been long practised , the recuperative power of Nature in the boy soon repairs the mischief , which appears to act principally on the nervous system , 1 for in very young boys no semen is lost . If ...
... habit is left off , or has not been long practised , the recuperative power of Nature in the boy soon repairs the mischief , which appears to act principally on the nervous system , 1 for in very young boys no semen is lost . If ...
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... habits of any kind , much less into so filthy a one as masturbation . And , indeed , it is a good deal to ask of a ... habit is indulged in at all , and declines to interfere . If recent testi- mony is to be believed , it is certain ...
... habits of any kind , much less into so filthy a one as masturbation . And , indeed , it is a good deal to ask of a ... habit is indulged in at all , and declines to interfere . If recent testi- mony is to be believed , it is certain ...
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... habit of masturbation and its consequences . My own impression formerly was , that it would be a pity to poison the mind of a high - spirited lad with any cautions about such debasing practices ; but my opinion has been altered by the ...
... habit of masturbation and its consequences . My own impression formerly was , that it would be a pity to poison the mind of a high - spirited lad with any cautions about such debasing practices ; but my opinion has been altered by 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.