THE SEXUAL QUESTION

CHAPTER I
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The reproduction of living beings--History of the germ--
Cell-division--Parthenogenesis--Conjugation--Mneme--Embryonic
development--Difference of sexes--Castration--Hermaphrodism--
Heredity--Blastophthoria 6

CHAPTER II

The evolution or descent of living beings 39

CHAPTER III

Natural conditions of mechanism of human coitus--Pregnancy--
Correlative sexual characters 49

CHAPTER IV

The sexual appetite in man and woman--Flirtation 72

CHAPTER V

Love and other irradiations of the sexual appetite in the
human mind--Psychic irradiations of love in man: Procreative
instinct, jealousy, sexual braggardism, pornographic spirit,
sexual hypocrisy, prudery and modesty, old bachelors--Psychic
irradiations of love in woman: Old maids, passiveness and
desire, abandon and exaltation, desire for domination,
petticoat government, desire of maternity and maternal love,
routine and infatuation, jealousy, dissimulation, coquetry,
prudery and modesty--Fetichism and anti-fetichism--
Psychological relations of love to religion 104

CHAPTER VI

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 and celibacy--Sexual advances and demands of
marriage--Methods of attraction--Liberty of choice--Sexual
selection--Law of resemblance--Hybrids--Prohibition of
consanguineous marriages--Role of sentiment and calculation
in sexual selection--Marriage by purchase--Decadence of
marriage by purchase--Dowry--Nuptial ceremonies--Forms of
marriage--Duration of marriage--History of extra-nuptial
sexual intercourse 144

CHAPTER VII

Sexual evolution--Phylogeny and ontogeny of sexual life 192

CHAPTER VIII

Sexual pathology--Pathology of the sexual organs--Venereal
disease--Sexual psychology--Reflex anomalies--Psychic
impotence--Sexual paradoxy--Sexual anæsthesia--Sexual
hyperæsthesia--Masturbation and onanism--Perversions
of the sexual appetite: Sadism, masochism, fetichism,
exhibitionism, homosexual love, sexual inversion, pederosis,
sodomy--Sexual anomalies in the insane and psychopathic--
Effects of alcohol on the sexual appetite--Sexual anomalies
by suggestion and auto-suggestion--Sexual perversions due to
habit 208

CHAPTER IX

The role of suggestion in sexual life--Amorous intoxication 277

CHAPTER X

The relations of the sexual question to money and property--
Prostitution, proxenetism and venal concubinage 293

CHAPTER XI

The influence of environment on sexual life--Influence of
climate--Town and country life--Vagabondage--Americanism--
Saloons and alcohol--Riches and poverty--Rank and social
position--Individual life--Boarding schools. 326

CHAPTER XII

Religion and sexual life 340

CHAPTER XIII

Rights in sexual life--Civil law--Penal law--A medico-legal
case 358

CHAPTER XIV

Medicine and sexual life--Prostitution--Sexual hygiene--
Extra-nuptial intercourse--Medical advice--Means of
regulating or preventing conception--Hygiene of marriage--
Hygiene of pregnancy--Medical advice as to marriage--Medical
secrecy--Artificial abortion--Treatment of sexual disorders 418

CHAPTER XV

Sexual morality 445

CHAPTER XVI

The sexual question in politics and in political economy 461

CHAPTER XVII

The sexual question in pedagogy 470

CHAPTER XVIII

The sexual question in art 489

CHAPTER XIX

Conclusions--Utopian ideas on the ideal marriage of the
future--Bibliographical remarks 499