ONAN ESCHEWED - Rick Grunder

the study of different qualities of sound, tone, pitch, intensity, duration, timbre; her
sense of touch, by learning to judge with closed eyes of different materials, of quality of
fiber, of the different degrees of temperature, of roughness or smoothness, of density; in
fact, let her endeavor to become alert, observant, along all the lines of sense-perception.
[p.153-54]
118 [another edition - What a Young Woman Ought to Know] Title and imprint as
above, but at head: "Price $1.00 Net 4s. Net. NEW REVISED EDITION, Self and Sex
Series". Philadelphia, London, Toronto: The Vir Publishing Company, [c. 1905,
by Sylvanus Stall].
16½ cm. 272, [13 (ads)] pp. + frontispiece portrait of the author, preceded by
"Commendations from Eminent Men and Women": six women (including
Elizabeth Cady Stanton) and three men with portraits on glossy paper; followed
by another page with recommendations from two women without portraits.
Following these is a fold-out plate (24½ cm. wide) also on glossy paper showing
sample pages from "Stalls Books in Different Languages of the World," thirteen
small facsimile pages in various alphabets, behind a circular image of Rev. Stall's
face emerging from a world map.
Original maroon cloth blind-stamped with author & title on front board plus
"Purity and Truth. Self and Sex Series." Gilt-lettered spine. Water damage has
rumpled the first few leaves and transferred maroon color to the pastedowns at
front and back. The remainder of the text is very good but for loss of back free
endpaper. Old stamp of The Upper Canada Tract Society, Saskatoon, on front
free endpaper. $15
In this edition, Chapter XIX on "Solitary Vice" occurs on pages 151-58. The
passages quoted from the 1898 edition (further above) are identical, but appear
here on pp. 155 and 158, respectively.
— FOR What a Young Boy Ought to Know, etc., see items 95-99.
119 YOUNG, William. [Prospectus] DR. YOUNG'S MARRIAGE GUIDE: Secrets of
Men's and Women's Hearts Unfolded. The History of Generation for Married Persons,
or those about to Marry–Physical and Constitutional disqualifications Anatomically,
Physiologically and Medically considered. THE PRODUCTION AND PREVENTION
OF OFFSPRING. Including all the New discoveries never before given in the English
language. Onanism--Female Self-Pollution—Virginity--Nocturnal Emissions—
Abortion---Seduction. Vividly exhibiting awful disclosures of the Mysteries of real Life;
with the most salutary hints to both sexes, on the laws of undefiled Chastity, Pure Love,
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