[490] A. G. Wollenmann, “Phimosis as a Cause of Perversion of Sexual Sensibility,” published in Der ärztliche Praktiker, 1895, No. 23. Matthaes has shown that morbid changes of the genital sphere or its vicinity are apt to give rise to offences against morality (“The Statistics of Offences against Morality,” published in the Archiv für Kriminalanthropologie, 1903, vol. xii., p. 319).
CHAPTER XVIII
MISOGYNY
“Thou priestess of the most flowery life, how is it possible that such things should draw near to thee—one of those pale phantoms, one of those general maxims, which philosophers and moralists have invented in their despair of the human race?”—G. Jung.
CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XVIII
Non-identity of misogyny with homosexuality — History of misogyny — Misogyny among the Greeks — Christian misogyny the true source of the modern contempt for women — Characteristics of modern misogyny — De Sade and his modern disciples (Schopenhauer, Strindberg, Weininger) — Scientific misogyny (Möbius, Schurtz, B. Friedländer, E. von Mayer) — Distinctions between the individual varieties — Counteracting tendencies — Beginnings of a new amatory life of the sexes — A common share in life — Freedom with, not without, woman.