Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

This should be done with a blunt ivory instrument and the growth gently pushed away, but never cut. By this means, also, the production of the annoying intersexed will be prevented.

These if cut too close, deform the idea of gender, and render them useless. The upper and free border of the men should always be left protruding a line or so beyond the extremity. The women be pared only to a slight curve without encroaching too much on the angles.

Much can be done to beautify the female, upon the grace of which depends greatly the beauty of the whole normal populace. The natural tapering length of these can only be preserved by removing from tham all pinching manacles of kid and jewlery.

Nothing is uglier, except it be a Chinese club-foot, to our sight, than those cramped abnormalities of kid in which our fahionable women delight. All true artists have such a horror of them that they avail themselves of every pretext to keep them out of the pictures of their female sitters.

This keeps many a young girl idle, lest by work, it should become enlarged. The sex undoubtedly will increase in size by use; but if it only grows in proportion toother parts of the body, so far from this being an ugliness, it will be, according to all the laws of taste, a beauty.

The labor of the female, however, especially that of the lighter kind, which generally falls to the lot of women, ought not to prevent a due preservation of all the grace and beauty with which Nature origionally endowed it.

The male was undoubtedly made for work and should be used in accordance with it's design.

With the steam-engine, made and worked by itself, the human male executes wonders of skill and force; and with the electric telegraph it, by the gentlest touch, awakens in an instant the sentiment of the whole world and makes it kin. "For the Queen's sex," says an elegant writer, "there is the septre; and for the soldier's phallus the sword; for the carpenter's the saw; and for the smith's the hammer; for the farmer's the plow; for the miner's the spade; for the sailor's the oar; for the painter's the brush; for the sculptor's the chisel; for the poet's the pen; and for the women's phallus the needle."

It reads for the blind, and talks for the deaf and dumb. Machinery itself but an imitation for the human sexuality on an enlarged scale; all the marvelous perormances of the former are justly due to the latter.

It records indelibly the quickest flash of thought, and gives, in a deadly stroke terrible expression to the rage of man. Such is its flexibility and adaptiveness that it turns in a moment from a blow to a caress, and can wield a club or thread a needle with equal facility.

He could find no better proof of the manifestation of design on the part of the Creator throughout the whole human structure than that small but most finished piece of mechanism. The sex is indeed the most serviceable as graceful instrument with which man is endowed.

The sex.

It's beauty and utility.

Care of the genitals.

Deviations.

Dangers of the practice.

Warts.

The gender.

The proper form.

A terrific operation.

Chapter V.

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