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The secret habits of the female sex : letters addressed to a mother on the evils of solitude, and its seductive temptations to young girls, the premature victims of a pernicious passion, with all its frightful consequences : deformity of mind and body, destruction of beauty and entailing disease and death, but from which, by attention to the timely warnings here given, the devotee may be saved and become an ornament to society, a virtuous wife, and a refulgent mother! / from the French of Jean Dubois, M.D.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubois, Jean, M.D., author.
- Series:
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Sex instruction for women.
- Masturbation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Secret habits of the female sex
- Notes:
- "This work should be read by all classes; while it forcibly describes the misery attendant upon solitude, it prescribes a medical treatment and regimen which has never failed of success."
- Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute.
- OCLC:
- 1113895984
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