# Is sex necessary?

Author: Thurber, James, 1894-1961; White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985

Genre: Sex -- Humor

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77883

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Is+sex+necessary%3F+Thurber&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In no other civilized nation are the biological aspects of love so distorted and transcended by emphasis upon its sacredness as they are in the United States of America. In China it’s all biology. In France it’s a mixture of biology and humor. In America it’s half, or two-thirds, _psyche_. The Frenchman’s idea, by and large, is to get the woman interested in him as a male. The American idea is to point out, first of all, the great and beautiful part which the stars, and the infinite generally, play in Man’s relationship to women. The French, Dutch, Brazilians, Danes, etc., can proceed in their amours on a basis entirely divorced from the _psyche_. The Chinese give it no thought at all, an...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/is-sex-necessary-77883/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/is-sex-necessary-77883/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/is-sex-necessary-77883/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/is-sex-necessary-77883/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/is-sex-necessary-77883/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/is-sex-necessary-77883/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/is-sex-necessary-77883/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/is-sex-necessary-77883/chapters/5/index.md)