Woman Her Sex and Love Life

The Physician Often Consulted as to Advisability of Marriage--_Venereal Disease_ the Most Common Question-- _Tuberculosis_--Sexual Appetite of Tubercular Patients--Effect of Pre...

Marriage as an Ideal Institution--Monogamic Marriage--Some Reasons for Husbands' Deviations--Importance of First Few Weeks of Married Life--Necessity for Understanding at Beginn...

Jealousy the Most Painful of Human Emotions--Impairment of Health--Mental Havoc--Jealousy as a Primitive Emotion--Jealousy in the Advanced Thinker and in the Savage--Jealousy in...

Knowledge of Prevention of Conception Essential--Misapprehensions Concerning Birth-control Propaganda--Modern Contraceptives Not Injurious to Health--Imperfection of Contracepti...

Prevention and Cure--Prophylaxis of Jealousy--Fitting Remedy to Circumstances--The Neglectful and Flirtatious Husband--No Question of Love--Advice to the wife of the Flirtatious...

Is Love Definable?--Raising a Corner of the Veil--Two Opinions of Love--The First Opinion: Sexual Intercourse and Love--The Second Opinion--The Grain of Truth in Each--The Truth...

The Irresistible Attraction of the Young Girl for the Male--The Unprotected Girl's Temptations--Some Men Who Will Pester the Young Girl--Risk of Venereal Infection--Danger of Im...

Function of the Ovaries--Internal Secretion of the Ovaries--Function of the Internal Secretion--Number of Ova in the Ovaries--The Graafian Follicles--Ovulation--Corpora Lutea--F...

The Internal Sex Organs--The Ovaries--The Fallopian Tubes--The Uterus--The Divisions of the Uterus--Anteversion, Anteflexion, Retroversion, Retroflexion, of the Uterus--Endometr...

Seemingly Contradictory Statements--Faulty Interpretations of Words Sexual Instinct and Love--Difference in Manifestations of Male and Female Sexual Instincts--Man's Sex Instinc...

Smooth Course of Pregnancy in Some Women--Pregnancy and Parturition May be Made Normal Processes Through Education in True Hygiene--Morning Sickness and Its Treatment--Necessity...

Wide-spread Belief in Maternal Impressions--No Single Well-authenticated Case of Maternal Impression--Birth of Monstrosities--Ridiculous Examples Given by Physicians--So-called...

Definition of Masturbation--Its Injurious Effects in Girls as Compared with Boys--Married Life of the Girl Masturbator-- Necessity for Change in Injurious Attitude of Parents wh...

Why Sex Knowledge is of Paramount Importance to Girls and Women--Reasons Why a Misstep in a Girl Has More Serious Consequences than a Misstep in a Boy--The Place Love Occupies i...

Chastity--Double Standard of Morality--Attempt to Abolish Double Standard--Late Marriages and Chastity in Men--Harmful Advice Given to Young Women--Chastity in Men Not Always Du...

Decision of Physician Regarding Marriage of Patients Infected with Gonorrhea or Syphilis--Advisability of Certificate of Freedom from Transmissible Disease--Premarital Examinati...

From the moment the ovum has been fertilized or fecundated by the spermatozoön, the woman is said to be pregnant (or in French _enceinte_. This term was used very frequently and...

No Perfect Substitute for Mother's Milk--When Nursing is Injurious to Mother and Child--Modified Milk--Artificial Foods--Care Essential in Selecting Wet Nurse--Suckling Child Be...

It is my sincere belief--and I cherish the belief in spite of this horrible, wretched war which seems to be shattering the very foundations of everything that we hold dear, dest...

Meaning of the Term--Misleading Information by Quasi-Scientists-- Exaggerated Ideas Regarding Prenatal Care--Nervous Connection Between Mother and Child--Cases Under Author's Ob...

Former Ban on Discussion of Venereal Disease and Its Evil Results--Present Reprehensible Exaggerations of Extent of Venereal Disease--Erroneous and Ridiculous Statements of "Ref...

The menopause, also called the climacteric, and in common language "change of life," is the period at which woman ceases to menstruate. The average age at which this occurs is a...

Fecundation or Fertilization--Process of Fecundation--When the Ovum Matures--Fate of Ovum When no Intercourse Has Taken Place--Entrance of Spermatozoa as Result of Intercourse--...

Source of Gonorrhea--Mucous Membrane of Genital Organs and of Eye Principal Seats of Disease--Symptoms in Men and in Women--Vagina Seldom Attacked in Adults--Nobody Inherits Gon...

Alcoholic Indulgence and Venereal Disease--A Champagne Dinner and Syphilis--Percentage of Cases of Venereal Infection Due to Alcohol--Artificial Stimulation of Sex Instinct in M...

Misconception Regarding the Meaning of the Term "Leucorrhea"--A Common Complaint--Severe Cases--Reasons for Resistance to Treatment--Proper Local Treatment of the Disorder--Ster...

Suppose you are the parents of a girl to whom a misfortune has happened. I admit it is a misfortune, a catastrophe. Probably the greatest catastrophe that, under our present soc...

Syphilis Due to Germ--Syphilis a Constitutional Disease--Primary Lesion--Incubation Period--Roseola--Primary Stage--Secondary Stage--Mucous Patches--Tertiary Stage--Gumma--Hered...

Puberty is the most wonderful, the most significant period in a girl's life. Important as it is in a boy's life and development, it is still more so in a girl's. At this period...

Rules for Permitting a Syphilitic Patient to Marry--Rules More Severe in Cases Where Children Are Desired--Where Both Partners Are Syphilitic--Danger of Paresis in Some Syphilit...

A Rational Divorce System--Storms and Squalls--Two Sides of the Divorce Question--Outside Help and Marital Tangles--A Husband who was a Paragon of Virtue--The Case of the Sweet...

Former Causes of Vulvovaginitis in Little Girls--Discharge Chief Symptom--Evil Results of Vulvovaginitis--Psychic Results of Treatment--Effects in Hastening Sexual Maturity--Vul...

The first function with which the girl will be confronted, which will impress upon her that she is a creature of sex, that she is decidedly different from the boy, is _menstruat...

Suppression of Orgasm by Woman to Prevent Impregnation--Bad Results of Suppression by the Woman--Orgasm: Relation of to Impregnation--A Hypothesis--A Fanciful Hypothesis--Why Pa...

I wish to give you a piece of advice which is of extremely great importance to you. I hesitated somewhat before writing this chapter, but the welfare of so many women depends up...

The hygiene of menstruation can be expressed in two words: cleanliness and rest. Common sense would suggest these two measures, and as far as rest is concerned, many women do re...

Belief in Sexual Intercourse for Propagation Only--What Such Practice Would Lead to--Nature and the Sex-fanatics--Sexual Desire in Woman After Menopause--Sex Instinct of Sterile...

In his book, _Sex Knowledge for Men_, the author treated the subject of prevention of venereal disease very thoroughly. Men need this knowledge. As men _will_ indulge in illicit...

The word abortion, used somewhat loosely, signifies the premature expulsion of the fetus; the expulsion of the fetus from the womb before it is viable, i.e., before it is capabl...

I have mentioned in a previous chapter that the absence of the hymen was no proof of unchastity, just as the presence of the hymen was no proof of perfect chastity. Chastity and...

Definition of Sterility--Husband Should First be Examined-- One-child Sterility--The Fertile Woman--Salpingitis as a Cause of Sterility--Leucorrhea and Sterility--Displacement o...

Just as the usual statements in regard to the extent of venereal disease have been found untrue or greatly exaggerated, so do the statements regarding the curability or rather i...

THE sex instinct, which runs all through nature from the lowest animal to the highest, is the inborn impulse, craving or desire which one sex has for the other: the male for the...

Having intercourse with a woman by force, without her consent, is called rape. When the woman is not in a condition to give consent, as when she is insane, feebleminded, unconsc...

In many girls and women menstruation is a perfectly normal, physiological process. They suffer no discomfort whatever from it. They suffer no pains, no headache, no irritability...

The disorders and disturbances described above are, with the exception of pernicious vomiting, of a minor nature. They are annoying, may cause considerable discomfort and suffer...

Meaning of Term Frigidity--Types of Frigidity--Large Percentage of Frigid Women--Repression of Sexual Manifestations and Frigidity-- Frigidity and Masturbation--Frigidity and Se...

This may seem to some a strange and superfluous question, a question which would never present itself. Still the laity would be surprised if it learned how frequently nowadays t...

Whatever part of the womb the ovum attaches itself to is stimulated to intense activity, to growth. Numerous bloodvessels begin to grow and that part of the lining membrane with...

Men and women are always interested to know how large the fetus is and how far it is developed during the various months of pregnancy. Absolutely exact measurements cannot be gi...

Certain cases of vaginismus, or rather false vaginismus, may be due to laceration or inflammation of the vaginal orifice, but in genuine cases of vaginismus no local disease can...

The question whether sexual intercourse is permissible during pregnancy is often put to the physician. Some extremists and theorists demand complete abstinence during the entire...

The word "venereal" means pertaining to sexual intercourse: venereal excess--excess in sexual intercourse; venereal disease--a disease acquired from sexual intercourse with an i...