More about women's health, masturbation, etc., in old American texts:
The Science of a New Life, by Dr. John Cowan,
1875 - in Dr. R. V. Pierce's "Spermatorrhea"
section of The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser
(63rd edition, 1895) - in The Sexual System and Its
Derangements, by Dr. E. C. Abbey (1882) - in Kelly's Gynecology,
1928 - Rachel Maines wrote a book about other doctors' masturbating their patients, male
and female, as a treatment, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator,
and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Press, 1999)
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Plain Facts for Old and Young:
Embracing the Natural History and Hygiene of
Organic Life, by J. H. Kellogg, M. D. (1892, Burlington, Iowa, U.S.A.)
Men take improper liberties; getting a husband; old
maids better than "helpless, good-for-nothing, sickly wives"
"The first step usually taken by the woman on the downward road, is the allowance of little liberties on the part of young men. They may be very slight at first, perhaps only a significant pressure of the hand, or the arm placed about the waist, or some similar impropriety. By degrees, slight advances are made along the same line, until the grossest breaches of immodesty are permitted. . . . Every young woman should resent the first appearance of attentions of the sort referred to."
"The average woman looks upon the lot of a spinster as the most wretched and undesirable possible; and yet it is unquestionably true that the average "old maid" is vastly happier in her lot, and more useful to the world, than a large proportion of wives. . . . We doubt not that the world would be vastly better off if there were a much larger number of useful old maids, and a less number of helpless, good-for-nothing, sickly wives."
"There are a great number of excellent men in the world, but probably by far the great majority of husbands are not worth marrying. [!]"
See the first page for a discussion.
End of excerpts
What characterizes children as masturbators?
- effects of masturbation in females - cure - how to behave during
menstruation - American social customs tend to evil;
moon-light rides; fast girls - Men take improper
liberties; getting a husband; old maids better than "helpless, good-for-nothing,
sickly wives"
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