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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... desires within the spheres of their real wants . If they will do so , wisdom and health will bloom of themselves , and abide without effort ; but all this is too often forgotten when the functions of generation are in ques- tion . This ...
... desires within the spheres of their real wants . If they will do so , wisdom and health will bloom of themselves , and abide without effort ; but all this is too often forgotten when the functions of generation are in ques- tion . This ...
Page 48
... desires are awakened in the mind . " " To the use of the sexual organs for the continuance of his race MAN is prompted by a powerful instinctive desire , which he shares with the lower animals . This instinct , like the other ...
... desires are awakened in the mind . " " To the use of the sexual organs for the continuance of his race MAN is prompted by a powerful instinctive desire , which he shares with the lower animals . This instinct , like the other ...
Page 50
... desire . It is just in this connection of the psychical attachment with the more corporeal instinct that the difference between the sexual relations of man and those of the lower animals lies . In proportion as the human being makes the ...
... desire . It is just in this connection of the psychical attachment with the more corporeal instinct that the difference between the sexual relations of man and those of the lower animals lies . In proportion as the human being makes the ...
Page 52
... desire arising from ignorance . That , as I have already said , p . 41 , I consider a dangerous condition . True continence is complete control over the passions , exercised by one who has felt their power , and who , were it not for ...
... desire arising from ignorance . That , as I have already said , p . 41 , I consider a dangerous condition . True continence is complete control over the passions , exercised by one who has felt their power , and who , were it not for ...
Page 56
... desire , at least to any troublesome degree , and consequently need neither take precautions , nor be warned against the danger of exciting his sexual feelings , and the equally extreme doctrine on the other hand , that the sufferings ...
... desire , at least to any troublesome degree , and consequently need neither take precautions , nor be warned against the danger of exciting his sexual feelings , and the equally extreme doctrine on the other hand , that the sufferings ...
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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.