An Outline of Sexual Morality

We must now pass from the normal or hetero-sexual to the second-class of sex-temperament. This is the homosexual--that in which the individual's sex attraction is directed towar...

In many cases the parents are not the persons most fitted to give this education. They may not possess the art of imparting knowledge, and often there is a certain reticence bet...

It will now be convenient to define the chief collective or official attitudes towards sex. In a mere outline such as this handbook professes to be, we may divide these attitude...

We have now arrived at a point where we can emphasize a further distinction. We must, in fact, differentiate between those emotions and thoughts which are sexual in the sense th...

Perhaps it will be best to take as the first example a sex tendency which can hardly be described as super-abnormal, for among single men, and especially among boys, it is extre...

The doctrine that love is the only motive for sex--that physical expression is pure only so far as it is the sacramental accidence of love--leads to important conclusions. There...

In attempting to define these principles I have no desire to enter into a controversy of relatives and absolutes. It is sufficient to meet those who deny that there can be any a...

In leaving the moorland of general principles for the fields of particular problems it will be convenient to group sex natures under three heads: (1) the normal or hetero-sexual...

I have been impelled to attempt this definition of sexual morality for at least three reasons. The first is that, at this moment particularly, science is emphasizing the large r...

If once the third principle named in the preceding chapter is fully appreciated, we have already laid the foundation of our moral standard. We shall have seen that physical expr...

The number of sexless people is small, though apparently increasing. It may be questioned whether there are any really sexless people--individuals, i.e. whose sex-nature is non-...