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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... mind , that the tendency of all irritation or excite- ment of the generative system , either mental or physical , is to induce the youngest child to stimulate the awakened appetite , and attempt to gratify the immature sexual desires ...
... mind , that the tendency of all irritation or excite- ment of the generative system , either mental or physical , is to induce the youngest child to stimulate the awakened appetite , and attempt to gratify the immature sexual desires ...
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... mind , a parent's pride leads him to hope that his boy would not indulge in any such mean and disgusting practices , while he trusts that at any rate he can leave these matters to the master whose interest , as well as duty it is to ...
... mind , a parent's pride leads him to hope that his boy would not indulge in any such mean and disgusting practices , while he trusts that at any rate he can leave these matters to the master whose interest , as well as duty it is to ...
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... mind of a high - spirited lad with any cautions about such debasing practices ; but my opinion has been altered by the confessions of many who , in ignorance of the results , have , by the example of others , been led to practice ...
... mind of a high - spirited lad with any cautions about such debasing practices ; but my opinion has been altered by the confessions of many who , in ignorance of the results , have , by the example of others , been led to practice ...
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... mind that , although the father may have abstained from alluding to sexual subjects , yet a mere child , with its keen curiosity , and eyes always on the alert for anything unusual among domestic animals , may already have acquired an ...
... mind that , although the father may have abstained from alluding to sexual subjects , yet a mere child , with its keen curiosity , and eyes always on the alert for anything unusual among domestic animals , may already have acquired an ...
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... mind , much dim- ness of sight , much loss of manly bearing , to which we must add many cases of the loss of reason and an imbecile and drivelling old age , are the inevitable result of the expenditure of the vital forces in sinful ...
... mind , much dim- ness of sight , much loss of manly bearing , to which we must add many cases of the loss of reason and an imbecile and drivelling old age , are the inevitable result of the expenditure of the vital forces in sinful ...
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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.