The Great Scourge and how to End itE. Pankhurst, 1913 - 155 páginas |
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Página 56 - Sexuality ought to lie dormant until legitimate occasion arises for its use, when it will be found to exist in full natural vigour. The sexual power of men has been given to them in trust for the perpetuation of the race, and they have not been faithful to that trust.
Página 48 - Where, as is the case with a very large number, a young man's education has been properly watched, and his mind has not been debased by vile practices, it is usually a comparatively easy task to be continent, and requires no great or extraordinary effort, and every year of voluntary chastity renders the task easier by the mere force of habit.
Página 48 - In the first place, I may state that I have, after many years' experience, never seen a single instance of atrophy of the generative organs from this cause. I have, it is true, met with the complaint — but in what class of cases does it occur ? It arises in all instances from the exactly opposite cause — early abuse : the organs become worn out, and hence arises atrophy.
Página 50 - The functions of the testicle, like those of the mammary gland and the uterus, may be suspended for a long period, possibly for life ; and yet its structure may be sound, and capable of being roused into activity.
Página 145 - Committee of the International Federation for the Abolition of the State Regulation of Vice...
Página 99 - From the present standpoint, man is not the "lord of creation," but the "exterminator of the species." Kill the gonococcus by teaching man the danger to woman and to the species should she acquire it, and then man returns to the condition he is pictured as having been in before Eve tempted him with the apple and he weakly said to his Maker: "It is the woman's fault.
Página 18 - Sometimes this doctrine is dressed up in the saying that women are mothers and beyond that nothing. What a man who says that really means is that women are created primarily for the sex gratification of men, and secondarily, for the bearing of children if he happens to want them, but of no more children than he wants.
Página xiii - London, for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the subject of English Spelling, with a view to reforming and simplifying it.
Página 84 - Noeggerath was right when he said the gonococcus can exist in the tissues throughout the lifetime of the individual, and at any time, under favourable influences, the infection may light upon what appears to be a new and acute infection, or may transmit a virulent infection without itself becoming manifest.
Página 63 - innocent" in every sense of the word. She is incapable of foreseeing, powerless to prevent this injury. She often pays with her life for her blind confidence in the man who, ignorantly or carelessly, passes over to her a disease he has received from a prostitute.