As the title of this book implies, I do not intend to occupy the attention of my readers with all the numerous varieties of insanity and other nervous disorders to which females are liable, but onl
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Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
There is a great deal of erroneous feeling attached to the subject of the sexual desires in woman.
Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid a
2490. LOUISA VINCENT was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding Thomas Soarston, on the left side of his head, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
‘But you haven't answered me. Will you let me go away? I know how irregular it is of me to ask it—’
‘It is irregular.’
“Sister,” said busy Amelotte
To listless Aloÿse;
“Along your wedding-road the wheat
Bends as to hear your horse's feet,
And the noonday stands still for heat.”
"Whitechapel Murders." The Illustrated Police News [London] 22 Sept. 1888: No.1,284. Print.
Birds sang, turf came to the water-edge, and trees grew from it. Away off among the trees I saw beautiful women walking.
“Our standards are all changing,” said Miss Du Prel. “It does not follow that they are changing for the worse.”
Four broad beech-trees great of hold,
Crowned the green, smooth-swelling knoll;
There She stood, the glorious form
Dazzling with its beauty warm;
Like a rose shut in a book
In which pure women may not look,
For its base pages claim control
To crush the flower within the soul;
We are exceedingly glad that the horrible scandal which Reynolds’s Newspaper was the first to bring under the notice of the general public has at last come more prominently forward throug
Westphal, an eminent professor of psychiatry at Berlin, may be said to have been the first to put the study of sexual inversion on an assured scientific basis.
Out, out, out into the night,
With the wind bitter north-east and the sea rough;
You have a racking cough and your lungs are weak,
"I tell you I must go!" I retorted, roused to something like passion. "Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings?
THE VOICE OF SALOME: Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Iokannan, I
have kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter taste on thy lips. Was
The analysis of these cases leads directly up to a question of the first importance: What is sexual inversion?
As an erotic stimulant, more particularly, it may be observed that, considering the many intimate and sympathetic relations existing between the nervous branches of the extremity of the spinal marr
THOU large-brained woman and large-hearted man,
Self-called George Sand ! whose soul, amid the lions
Of thy tumultuous senses, moans defiance
In this poem, John Addington Symonds describes the painful feeling of unrequited and unaccepted love.