Psychology

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society

The Child's Right to Choose Its Ancestry--How This is Effected--The Mother the Child's Supreme Parent--Motherhood and the Woman Movement--The Immense Importance of Motherhood--Infant Mortality and Its Causes--The Chief Cause in the Mother--The Need of Rest During Pregnancy--Fr...

Chapters

20. CHAPTER VII.

II. _The Origin and Development of Prostitution:_--The Definition of Prostitution--Prostitution Among Savages--The Conditions Under Which Professional Prostitution Arises--Sacre...

23. CHAPTER X.

The Definition of Marriage--Marriage Among Animals--The Predominance of Monogamy--The Question of Group Marriage--Monogamy a Natural Fact, Not Based on Human Law--The Tendency t...

27. CHAPTER XII.

The Relationship of the Science of Procreation to the Art of Love--Sexual Desire and Sexual Pleasure as the Conditions of Conception--Reproduction Formerly Left to Caprice and L...

14. CHAPTER II.

Nurture Necessary as Well as Breed--Precocious Manifestations of the Sexual Impulse--Are They to be Regarded as Normal?--The Sexual Play of Children--The Emotion of Love in Chil...

22. CHAPTER IX.

Prostitution in Relation to Our Marriage System--Marriage and Morality--The Definition of the Term "Morality"--Theoretical Morality--Its Division Into Traditional Morality and I...

24. CHAPTER XI.

Marriage Not Only for Procreation--Theologians on the _Sacramentum Solationis_--Importance of the _Art of Love_--The Basis of Stability in Marriage and the Condition for Right P...

21. CHAPTER VIII.

The Significance of the Venereal Diseases--The History of Syphilis--The Problem of Its Origin--The Social Gravity of Syphilis--The Social Dangers of Gonorrhoea--The Modern Chang...

19. CHAPTER VI.

The Influence of Tradition--The Theological Conception of Lust--Tendency of These Influences to Degrade Sexual Morality--Their Result in Creating the Problem of Sexual Abstinenc...

13. CHAPTER I.

The Child's Right to Choose Its Ancestry--How This is Effected--The Mother the Child's Supreme Parent--Motherhood and the Woman Movement--The Immense Importance of Motherhood--I...

17. CHAPTER V.

Chastity Essential to the Dignity of Love--The Eighteenth Century Revolt Against the Ideal of Chastity--Unnatural Forms of Chastity--The Psychological Basis of Asceticism--Ascet...

16. CHAPTER IV.

The Conception of Sexual Love--The Attitude of Mediæval Asceticism--St. Bernard and St. Odo of Cluny--The Ascetic Insistence on the Proximity of the Sexual and Excretory Centres...

15. CHAPTER III.

The Greek Attitude Towards Nakedness--How the Romans Modified That Attitude--The Influence of Christianity--Nakedness in Mediæval Times--Evolution of the Horror of Nakedness--Co...

25. Part II, Ch. V), while thinking it is best to follow inclination,

remarks that "a beautiful woman looks better by sunlight than by candlelight." A few authorities, like Burdach, have been content to accept the custom of night coitus, and Busch...

18. Part VIII) "was originally valued as a sign of greater strength

of will and firmness of character, and it marked a rise above primitive conditions. This purity was difficult to preserve in those unsure days; it was rare and unusual. From thi...

26. volume v of these _Studies_.)

It is on the basis of these elemental human facts that the permanently seductive and inspiring relationships of sex are developed, and not by the emergence of personalities who...

10. CHAPTER X.

The Definition of Marriage--Marriage Among Animals--The Predominance of Monogamy--The Question of Group Marriage--Monogamy a Natural Fact, Not Based on Human Law--The Tendency t...

7. CHAPTER VII.

II. _The Origin and Development of Prostitution:_--The Definition of Prostitution--Prostitution Among Savages--The Conditions Under Which Professional Prostitution Arises--Sacre...

11. CHAPTER XI.

Marriage Not Only for Procreation--Theologians on the _Sacramentum Solationis_--Importance of the _Art of Love_--The Basis of Stability in Marriage and the Condition for Right P...

2. CHAPTER II.

Nurture Necessary as Well as Breed--Precocious Manifestations of the Sexual Impulse--Are they to be Regarded as Normal?--The Sexual Play of Children--The Emotion of Love in Chil...

12. CHAPTER XII.

The Relationship of the Science of Procreation to the Art of Love--Sexual Desire and Sexual Pleasure as the Conditions of Conception--Reproduction Formerly Left to Caprice and L...

9. CHAPTER IX.

Prostitution in Relation to Our Marriage System--Marriage and Morality--The Definition of the Term "Morality"--Theoretical Morality--Its Division Into Traditional Morality and I...

4. CHAPTER IV.

The Conception of Sexual Love--The Attitude of Mediæval Asceticism--St. Bernard and St. Odo of Cluny--The Ascetic Insistence on the Proximity of the Sexual and Excretory Centres...

6. CHAPTER VI.

The Influence of Tradition--The Theological Conception of Lust--Tendency of These Influences to Degrade Sexual Morality--Their Result in Creating the Problem of Sexual Abstinenc...

5. CHAPTER V.

Chastity Essential to the Dignity of Love--The Eighteenth Century Revolt Against the Ideal of Chastity--Unnatural Forms of Chastity--The Psychological Basis of Asceticism--Ascet...

3. CHAPTER III.

The Greek Attitude Towards Nakedness--How the Romans Modified That Attitude--The Influence of Christianity--Nakedness in Mediæval Times--Evolution of the Horror of Nakedness--Co...

1. CHAPTER I.

The Child's Right to Choose Its Ancestry--How This is Effected--The Mother the Child's Supreme Parent--Motherhood and the Woman Movement--The Immense Importance of Motherhood--I...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

The Significance of the Venereal Diseases--The History of Syphilis--The Problem of Its Origin--The Social Gravity of Syphilis--The Social Dangers of Gonorrhoea--The Modern Chang...