The Truth about Love: A Proposed Sexual Morality Based Upon the Doctrine of Evolution, and Recent Discoveries in Medical Science

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Wesley, 1872 - 259 pages
 

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Page 227 - Tis chastity, my brother, chastity : She that has that is clad in complete steel...
Page 53 - MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse ! Deep and still, that gliding stream Beautiful to thee must seem, As the river of a dream. Then why pause with indecision,...
Page 253 - Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 196 - Finally this exercise brings on a nervous action or ejaculatory crisis which expels the seed. Now we insist that this whole process, up to the very moment of emission, is voluntary, entirely under the control of the moral faculty, and can be stopped at any point. In other words, the presence and the motions can be continued or stopped at will, and it is only the final crisis of emission that is automatic or uncontrollable. Suppose, then, that a man, in lawful intercourse with...
Page 184 - Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking, in the first sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light. The introduction to this felicity is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which is the enchantment of human life...
Page 111 - Gainst me swoln rumor hoisted every sail ; She crown'd with reverend praises pass'd by them, I though with face mask'd could not 'scape the Hem ; For, as if heaven had set strange marks on whores, Because they should be pointing stocks to man, Drest up in civilest shape a Courtezan ; Let her walk saint-like noteless and unknown, Yet she's betray'd by some trick of her own.
Page 141 - Sexual hallucinations, betraying an ovarian or uterine excitement, might almost be described as the characteristic feature of the insanity of old maids; the false visions of unreal indulgence being engendered probably in the same way as visions of banquets occur in the dreams of a starving person, or as visions of cooling streams to one •who is perishing of thirst. It seems to be the fact that, although women bear sexual excesses better than men, they suffer more than men do from the entire deprivation...
Page 203 - Helmont was not far wrong when he contended that woman was what she is, in health, in character, in her charms, alike of body, mind, and soul, because of her womb alone.
Page 111 - To loath them more than this : when in the street A. fair, young, modest damsel, I did meet, She seem'd to all a dove, when I pass'd by And I to all a raven : every eye That...
Page 196 - We begin by analyzing the act of sexual intercourse. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Its beginning and most elementary form is the simple presence of the male organ in the female. Then usually follows a series of reciprocal motions. Finally this exercise brings on a nervous action or ejaculatory crisis which expels the seed. Now we insist that this whole process, up to the very moment of emission, is voluntary, entirely under the control of the moral faculty, and can be stopped at any point....

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