Author: Sylvester GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sexual ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A Lecture to Young Men on Chastity
Author: Sylvester GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sexual ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A lecture to young men on Chastity. Intended also for the serious consideration of parents and guardians
Author: Sylvester GRAHAMA Lecture to Young Men, on Chastity
Author: Sylvester GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sexual ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A lecture to young men on chastity
Author: Sylvester GrahamA Lecture to Young Men on Chastity; Intended Also for the Serious Consideration of Parents and Guardians
Author: Sylvester GrahamPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230365343
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ... lent and hazardous to life. And where it is promiscuous, the genital organs are almost continually stimulated by the mind. Every female that is a little more comely, or a little more meretricious than others, in her appearance, becomes an object of desire; the contemplation of her charms, and all her movements, increase the lust, and thus the genital organs are kept under an habitual excitement, which is reflected or diffused over the whole nervous system; and disturbs, and disorders all the functions of the body, and impairs all the tissues, and leads to that frequency of commerce which produces the most ruinous consequences. But, between the husband and wife, where there is a proper degree of chastity, all these causes either entirely lose, or are exceedingly diminished in their effect. They become accustomed to each other's body, and their parts no longer excite an impure imagination, and their sexual intercourse is the result of the more natural and instinctive excitements of the organs themselves;--and when the dietetic and other habits are such as they should be, this intercourse is very seldom. Moreover, a promiscuous commerce between the sexes would be terribly pernicious to the female and to the offspring, as well as to the male. Debility, abortion, barrenness, and painful diseases of various forms, would be the inevitable result in the female; and that peculiarly loathsome, virulent and ruinous disease which is generated and perpetuated by such commerce, and which has already been so dreadful a scourge to millions of the human family, would prevail on every hand, and become a common calamity of society. With equal certainty, the offspring would be very generally feeble, puny, and extremely predisposed to disease. A large...
52 Loaves
Author: William AlexanderPublisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616200065
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Charts the author's attempts to bake the perfect loaf of bread, including growing, harvesting, and milling his own wheat.
Reforming Men and Women
Author: Bruce DorseyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field of gender studies, incorporating an analysis of masculinity into the history of early American religion and reform. His is a holistic account that reveals the contested meanings of manhood and womanhood among antebellum Americans, both black and white, middle class and working class.Urban poverty, drink, slavery, and Irish Catholic immigration--for each of these social problems that engrossed Northern reformers, Dorsey examines the often competing views held by male and female activists and shows how their perspectives were further complicated by differences in class, race, and generation. His primary focus is Philadelphia, birthplace of nearly every kind of benevolent and reform society and emblematic of changes occurring throughout the North. With an especially rich history of African-American activism, the city is ideal for Dorsey's exploration of race and reform.Combining stories of both ordinary individuals and major reformers with an insightful analysis of contemporary songs, plays, fiction, and polemics, Dorsey exposes the ways race, class, and ethnicity influenced the meanings of manhood and womanhood in nineteenth-century America. By linking his gendered history of religious activism with the transformations characterizing antebellum society, he contributes to a larger quest: to engender all of American history.
Lectures on Natural and Difficult Parturition
Author: Edward William MurphyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Graham Journal of Health and Longevity
Author: Riotous Flesh
Author: April R. HaynesPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022628476X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women’s leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform the politics of sex created unexpected alliances between groups that otherwise had very different goals. As April R. Haynes shows, the crusade against female masturbation was rooted in a generally shared agreement on some major points: that girls and women were as susceptible to masturbation as boys and men; that “self-abuse” was rooted in a lack of sexual information; and that sex education could empower women and girls to master their own bodies. Yet the groups who made this education their goal ranged widely, from “ultra” utopians and nascent feminists to black abolitionists. Riotous Flesh explains how and why diverse women came together to popularize, then institutionalize, the condemnation of masturbation, well before the advent of sexology or the professionalization of medicine.