The sexual question

Love and other irradiations of the sexual appetite in the human mind--Psychic irradiations of love in man: Procreative instinct, jealousy, sexual braggardism, pornographic spiri...

Ethnology and history of the sexual life of man and of marriage--Origin of marriage--Antiquity of matrimonial institutions--Criticism of the doctrine of promiscuity-- Marriage a...

Sexual pathology--Pathology of the sexual organs--Venereal disease--Sexual psychology--Reflex anomalies--Psychic impotence--Sexual paradoxy--Sexual anæsthesia--Sexual hyperæsthe...

My object is to study the sexual question under all its aspects: scientific, ethnological, pathological and social, and to seek the best solution of the numerous problems connec...

A general law of organic life decrees that every living individual is gradually transformed in the course of a cycle which is called individual life, and which terminates with d...

The theory of evolution is intimately associated with the name of _Darwin_, for it was he who established it in the scientific world. In reality, the idea of the transformation...

It is impossible to comprehend the deep meaning and lofty aim of an act like that of sexual union without knowing the details of conjugation and the origin of man as we have exp...

If we sum up the three preceding chapters we arrive at the philosophical conclusion that reproduction depends on the general natural tendency of all living beings to multiply in...

The accumulation of semen in the seminal vesicles strongly excites the sexual appetite of man, and he is momentarily satisfied by their evacuation. But we shall soon see that th...

=Generalities. Jealousy.=--We have seen that the mechanism of the appetites consists in instincts inherited from our animal ancestors by mnemic engraphia and selection, and that...

In the study of the sexual question it is absolutely necessary to guard against subjectiveness and all preconceived theory, and to avoid sentimentalism as well as eroticism. The...

The evolution of every living being is twofold. We must distinguish: (1) its _ontogeny_, or the entire cycle of development of the individual from its conception till natural de...

On this subject we refer the reader to the well-known work of Krafft-Ebing, "Psychopathia Sexualis,"[4] in which will be found a number of observations, the details of which we...

prove that the old belief in the bad quality of children conceived during drunkenness is not without foundation. Relying on the Swiss census of 1900, in which there figure nine...

=Suggestion. Cerebral Activity. Consciousness. Subconsciousness and Amnesia. Auto-suggestion.=--The explanation of the phenomena of hypnotism and suggestion by Liébeault and Ber...

In Chapter VI we have studied the historical development of human marriage as a continuation of the phylogeny of our species, and we have shown that marriage by purchase and dif...

However strong may be the hereditary sexual instincts which an individual has inherited by phylogeny from his ancestors, and however violent their internal outbreaks in his onto...

=Transformation of Profane Customs into Religious Dogmas.=--Ethnography has taught us that in the course of time human tribes often unconsciously transform profane customs into...

=Rights and Liberty.=--Human ideas of right are very curious. Every one appeals to right and liberty, and naturally thinks of himself first, without perceiving that in continual...

=General Remarks.=--Theology teaches belief in God and a future life; law represents the application of codified laws and customs, old and new; medicine is said to be an art--th...

be carefully weighed. I repeat here, that in the future more attention should be paid to social interests, instead of always requiring the preservation of an embryo for the sole...

=Law and Morality.=--The limits of morality and law are difficult to fix. With the old conception of law and the expiation of crime it was otherwise. Yet it is precisely the old...

Power and money have always been the principal aims of politics. Political economy is a science which deals with the great family of nations and their conditions of existence. B...

=Heredity and Education.=--If we review the facts contained in Chapters IV, VI, VII and VIII, we must conclude that the sexual appetite, sensations and sentiments of every human...

=The Genesis of Art.=--Art represents in a harmonious form the movements of our sentimental life. The phylogeny of art is still very obscure; Darwin attributes it to sexual attr...

=Utopia and the Realizable Ideal.=--The term Utopia may be applied to every ideal project elaborated by human imagination for the future welfare of society, which has no healthy...