Category: Psychiatry/Psychology

A Plea for Monogamy

Common sense indicates, happiness and health demand, science proclaims and society is beginning to insist that men and women understand and apply the palpable truth of the sex relations in their married life.—DR. W. F. ROBIE.

Chapters

5. CHAPTER V

From the earliest ages seers and poets have glorified Love. The Bible says God is Love. Love as the perfect erotic control of the wife by the husband will be a strange concept t...

6. CHAPTER VI

Evolution has produced in man a being in whom the erotic has now a greater significance than the egoistic-social impulse. In the development of plant and animal forms, science r...

2. CHAPTER II

This book is written largely in the hope that the thousands of unhappy married women, and the unmarried too, as fate sometimes suddenly and unexpectedly finds them a partner, wi...

4. CHAPTER IV

In a consideration of the essential factors in a happy marriage we are dealing primarily with the most fundamental of the instincts. For all practical purposes it is sufficient...

7. CHAPTER VII

Those who marry from merely physical sexual motives, who overemphasize or overweight the physical side of sex, are not able to gain from marriage what the rationally controlled...

9. CHAPTER IX

The new husband is the man who realizes that the type of passion which he has idealized to himself as appropriate for himself is logically quite as appropriate for his wife. Qui...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Marriage, in the sense of a legal bond between two people who are bound together in no other way than that affecting the interests of the egoistic-social type, is not truly mono...

1. CHAPTER I

Common sense indicates, happiness and health demand, science proclaims and society is beginning to insist that men and women understand and apply the palpable truth of the sex r...

10. CHAPTER X

While it is lawful to inform readers that abortion is a crime and in every way unnatural, the practice of —— and ——, and the use of ——, ——, ——, etc., none of which in any sense...

3. CHAPTER III

Emotions, including moods and many nameless feelings, are some of the innate organic sensations evoked in our bodies by sensations that are not organic. In other words, they for...