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| | "No Snuggling!" Sex Talks to Young Girls |
 | | Source: Irving D. Steinhardt, Ten Sex Talks to Girls, 14 Years and Older (Philadelphia: J. Lippincott Company, 1914). |
 | | In an excerpt from Ten Sex Talks to Girls, published in 1914, Dr. Irving Steinhardt of New York warned that any affection or intimacy—indeed, any sort of physical contact between women at all—carried the potential for disease, pauperism, and death. |
 | | Thousands of your sex already have, and lie in nameless graves away from home, most likely in a pauper’s burying-ground, because they had become so degraded in name and fact as to be lost to "the old folks at home." |
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