Instead of "wild oats" : a little book for the youth of eighteen and over / by Winfield Scott Hall.

  • Hall, Winfield Scott, 1861-1942.
Date:
[1912]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Instead of "wild oats" : a little book for the youth of eighteen and over / by Winfield Scott Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Instead of ^^Wild Oats'* in the young man^s body and mind are pro- duced by a substance prepared in the sex glands. It was discovered that the testicles of the developing boy rapidly increase in size at the very beginning of his growth into manhood, becoming about eight times as large as they were before this adolescent development began. One would naturally expect that such a re- markable development in the size of the sex glands would bear an important relation to the general development. It has been discovered that it is the cause of that development. If a boy of ten or twelve were deprived of his testicles through castration he would grow into a slope-shouldered, narrow-chested, flabby- muscled, beardless, squeaky-voiced, 'namby- pamby mollycoddle. On the other hand, if a girl of eight or ten were to be deprived of her ovaries she would develop into a square- shouldered, deep-chested, long-striding, deep- voiced, bewhiskered individual, who in trou- sers would pass anywhere for a man, as her castrated brother would in petticoats pass anywhere^for a woman. The male, mutilated [,>6]