Entered at Stationers’ Hall, 1908
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PUBLISHERS’ NOTE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
The author’s aim in writing this book was to write a complete Encyclopædia on the sexual sciences, and it will probably be acknowledged by all who study its pages that the author has accomplished his intention in a very scholarly manner, and in such form as to be of great value to the professions for whom this translation is intended. The subject is no doubt one which appeals to and affects the interests of all adult persons, but the publishers have, after very serious and careful consideration, come to the conclusion that the sale of the English translation of the book shall be limited to members of the legal and medical professions. To both these professions it is essential that a knowledge of the science of Sex and the various causes for the existence of “abnormals” should be ascertained, so that they may be guided in the future in their investigations into, and the practice of attempts to mitigate, the evil which undoubtedly exists, and to bring about a more healthy class of beings. It is the first time that the subject has been so carefully and fully gone into in the English language, and it is believed that the very exhaustive examination which the author has made into the matter, and the various cases to which he has called attention, will be of considerable use to the medical practitioner, and also to the lawyer in criminal and quasi-criminal matters, and probably in matrimonial disputes and cases of insanity.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| INTRODUCTION | [1] |
| CHAPTER I | |
| THE ELEMENTARY PHENOMENA OF HUMAN LOVE | [7] |
| CHAPTER II | |
| THE SECONDARY PHENOMENA OF HUMAN LOVE (BRAIN AND SENSES) | [19] |
| CHAPTER III | |
| THE SECONDARY PHENOMENA OF HUMAN LOVE (REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS, SEXUAL IMPULSE, SEXUAL ACT) | [37] |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| PHYSICAL DIFFERENTIAL SEXUAL CHARACTERS | [53] |
| CHAPTER V | |
| PSYCHICAL DIFFERENTIAL SEXUAL CHARACTERS—THE WOMAN’S QUESTION. APPENDIX: SEXUAL SENSIBILITY IN WOMEN | [67] |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT IN LOVE—RELIGION AND SEXUALITY | [87] |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT IN LOVE—THE EROTIC SENSE OF SHAME (NAKEDNESS AND CLOTHING) | [125] |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT IN LOVE—THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF LOVE | [159] |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| THE ARTISTIC ELEMENT IN MODERN LOVE | [177] |
| CHAPTER X | |
| THE SOCIAL FORMS OF THE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP—MARRIAGE | [185] |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| FREE LOVE | [233] |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| SEDUCTION, THE SENSUAL LIFE, AND WILD LOVE | [279] |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| PROSTITUTION—APPENDIX: THE HALF-WORLD | [303] |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| VENEREAL DISEASES—APPENDIX: VENEREAL DISEASES IN THE HOMOSEXUAL | [349] |
| CHAPTER XV | |
| PROPHYLAXIS, TREATMENT, AND SUPPRESSION OF VENEREAL DISEASES | [371] |
| CHAPTER XVI | |
| STATES OF SEXUAL IRRITABILITY AND SEXUAL WEAKNESS (AUTO-EROTISM, MASTURBATION, SEXUALHYPERÆSTHESIA AND SEXUAL ANÆSTHESIA, SEMINAL EMISSIONS, IMPOTENCE, AND SEXUAL NEURASTHENIA) | [407] |
| CHAPTER XVII | |
| THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECT OF PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS—APPENDIX: SEXUAL PERVERSIONS DUE TO DISEASE | [453] |
| CHAPTER XVIII | |
| MISOGYNY | [479] |
| CHAPTER XIX | |
| THE RIDDLE OF HOMOSEXUALITY—APPENDIX: THEORY OF HOMOSEXUALITY | [487] |
| CHAPTER XX | |
| PSEUDO-HOMOSEXUALITY (GREEK AND ORIENTAL PÆDERASTY, HERMAPHRODITISM, BISEXUAL VARIETIES) | [537] |
| CHAPTER XXI | |
| ALGOLAGNIA (SADISM AND MASOCHISM)—APPENDIX: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PSYCHOLOGY OFTHE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALGOLAGNISTIC REVOLUTIONIST) | [555] |
| CHAPTER XXII | |
| SEXUAL FETICHISM | [609] |
| CHAPTER XXIII | |
| ACTS OF FORNICATION WITH CHILDREN, INCEST, ACTS OF FORNICATION WITH CORPSES (NECROPHILIA)AND ANIMALS (BESTIALITY), EXHIBITIONISM, AND OTHER SEXUAL PERVERSITIES—APPENDIX: THE TREATMENT OF SEXUAL PERVERSITIES | [631] |
| CHAPTER XXIV | |
| OFFENCES AGAINST MORALITY FROM THE FORENSIC STANDPOINT | [659] |
| CHAPTER XXV | |
| THE QUESTION OF SEXUAL ABSTINENCE | [671] |
| CHAPTER XXVI | |
| SEXUAL EDUCATION | [681] |
| CHAPTER XXVII | |
| NEO-MALTHUSIANISM, THE PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION, ARTIFICIAL STERILITY AND ARTIFICIAL ABORTION | [693] |
| CHAPTER XXVIII | |
| SEXUAL HYGIENE | [709] |
| CHAPTER XXIX | |
| THE SEXUAL LIFE IN ITS PUBLIC RELATIONSHIPS (SEXUAL QUACKERY, ADVERTISEMENTS, ANDSCANDALS) | [719] |
| CHAPTER XXX | |
| PORNOGRAPHIC LITERATURE AND ART | [729] |
| CHAPTER XXXI | |
| LOVE IN POLITE (BELLETRISTIC) LITERATURE | [741] |
| CHAPTER XXXII | |
| THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE OF THE SEXUAL LIFE | [753] |
| CHAPTER XXXIII | |
| THE OUTLOOK | [763] |
| INDEX OF NAMES | [767] |
| INDEX OF SUBJECTS | [778] |