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Sexual Impotence in the Male and Female (Classic Reprint) William Alexander Hammond No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 165 - A mujerado is -an essential person in the saturnalia or orgies, in which these Indians, like the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and other nations indulge. He is the chief passive agent in the pederastic ceremonies, which form so important a part in the performances. These take place in the spring of every year, and are conducted with the utmost secrecy, as regards the non-Indian part of the population.
Page 77 - Empire, was brought up at his father's country-seat, which he did not leave until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to the military school. During his long period of isolation in the country he had been initiated, at the age of fourteen, into an experience of the pleasures of love, by a young lady, a friend of the family. This lady, then twenty-one years old, was a blonde; wore her hair in the English style, that is to say, in corkscrew curls; and in order to lessen the liability of detection...
Page 247 - He then stated that for years he had seldom any erection, and then that it was imperfect ; that he had no emissions from the first year of the operation ; that he had for many years only a few times attempted coitus, but unsuccessfully ; that he had once or twice dreams of desire, and a sensation of emission, but without the slightest appearance of it. The penis is shrivelled and wasted. He shaves once a week, and sometimes twice, his voice, naturally rather feeble, remains as at the time of the...
Page 246 - For nearly the first twelve months he stated that he had emissions in coitu, or that he had the sensations of emission. That then he had erections and coitus at distant intervals, but without the sensation of emission. After two years, he had erections very rarely and very imperfectly, and they generally immediately ceased upon the attempt at coitus.
Page 141 - It is, I think, most abundant and most quickly formed in those whose sexual organs are more irritable than potent ; but this is the worst that can be said of it ; and even in these it is not the sexual organs, but some part of the nervous system, the brain or the spinal marrow, that is in the wrong. In no case does the secretion deserve to be called or treated as a disease.
Page 228 - But at other times lit suffers all the distress that he might have with a very bad urethra! stricture. He cannot pass a drop of urine ; or after a few drops there comes a painful check, and the more he strains the less he passes ; and then complete retention may ensue, and over-filling of the bladder. In these characters the case may closely resemble one of the ordinary instances of so-called congestive stricture in which rapid swelling of some part of the mucous membrane narrows or closes the part...
Page 178 - About a fortnight after he told me that this resolution had produced such a total alteration in the state of his mind, that the power soon took place, for instead of going to bed with the fear of inability, he went with fears that he should be possessed with too much desire...
Page 166 - But the most decided changes are at the same time going on little by little in the instincts and proclivities of the subject. He loses his taste for those sports and occupations in which he formerly indulged, his courage disappears, and he becomes timid to such an extent that if he is a man occupying a prominent place in the...
Page 29 - ... depicted in this journal, or to repeat the names which he gave to the objects of his love. I have had frequent occasion to read the correspondence of known pederasts and have found them applying to each other under the forms of the most passionate language, idealistic names which legitimately belong to the diction of the truest and most ardent love. But it is difficult not to admit the existence in some cases of a real pathologic alteration of the moral faculties.
Page 178 - ... fear of inability, he went with fears that he should be possessed with too much desire, too much power, so as to become uneasy to him, which really happened...