{"product_id":"2940016129617","title":"STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX, VOLUME VI","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MOTHER AND HER CHILD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Child's Right to Choose Its Ancestry--How This is Effected--The Mother\u003cbr\u003ethe Child's Supreme Parent--Motherhood and the Woman Movement--The Immense\u003cbr\u003eImportance of Motherhood--Infant Mortality and Its Causes--The Chief Cause\u003cbr\u003ein the Mother--The Need of Rest During Pregnancy--Frequency of Premature\u003cbr\u003eBirth--The Function of the State--Recent Advance in Puericulture--The\u003cbr\u003eQuestion of Coitus During Pregnancy--The Need of Rest During\u003cbr\u003eLactation--The Mother's Duty to Suckle Her Child--The Economic\u003cbr\u003eQuestion--The Duty of the State--Recent Progress in the Protection of the\u003cbr\u003eMother--The Fallacy of State Nurseries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSEXUAL EDUCATION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNurture Necessary as Well as Breed--Precocious Manifestations of the\u003cbr\u003eSexual Impulse--Are they to be Regarded as Normal?--The Sexual Play of\u003cbr\u003eChildren--The Emotion of Love in Childhood--Are Town Children More\u003cbr\u003ePrecocious Sexually Than Country Children?--Children's Ideas Concerning\u003cbr\u003ethe Origin of Babies--Need for Beginning the Sexual Education of Children\u003cbr\u003ein Early Years--The Importance of Early Training in Responsibility--Evil\u003cbr\u003eof the Old Doctrine of Silence in Matters of Sex--The Evil Magnified When\u003cbr\u003eApplied to Girls--The Mother the Natural and Best Teacher--The Morbid\u003cbr\u003eInfluence of Artificial Mystery in Sex Matters--Books on Sexual\u003cbr\u003eEnlightenment of the Young--Nature of the Mother's Task--Sexual Education\u003cbr\u003ein the School--The Value of Botany--Zoölogy--Sexual Education After\u003cbr\u003ePuberty--The Necessity of Counteracting Quack Literature--Danger of\u003cbr\u003eNeglecting to Prepare for the First Onset of Menstruation--The Right\u003cbr\u003eAttitude Towards Woman's Sexual Life--The Vital Necessity of the Hygiene\u003cbr\u003eof Menstruation During Adolescence--Such Hygiene Compatible with the\u003cbr\u003eEducational and Social Equality of the Sexes--The Invalidism of Women\u003cbr\u003eMainly Due to Hygienic Neglect--Good Influence of Physical Training on\u003cbr\u003eWomen and Bad Influence of Athletics--The Evils of Emotional\u003cbr\u003eSuppression--Need of Teaching the Dignity of Sex--Influence of These\u003cbr\u003eFactors on a Woman's Fate in Marriage--Lectures and Addresses on Sexual\u003cbr\u003eHygiene--The Doctor's Part in Sexual Education--Pubertal Initiation Into\u003cbr\u003ethe Ideal World--The Place of the Religious and Ethical Teacher--The\u003cbr\u003eInitiation Rites of Savages Into Manhood and Womanhood--The Sexual\u003cbr\u003eInfluence of Literature--The Sexual Influence of Art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSEXUAL EDUCATION AND NAKEDNESS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Greek Attitude Towards Nakedness--How the Romans Modified That\u003cbr\u003eAttitude--The Influence of Christianity--Nakedness in Mediæval\u003cbr\u003eTimes--Evolution of the Horror of Nakedness--Concomitant Change in the\u003cbr\u003eConception of Nakedness--Prudery--The Romantic Movement--Rise of a New\u003cbr\u003eFeeling in Regard to Nakedness--The Hygienic Aspect of Nakedness--How\u003cbr\u003eChildren May Be Accustomed to Nakedness--Nakedness Not Inimical to\u003cbr\u003eModesty--The Instinct of Physical Pride--The Value of Nakedness in\u003cbr\u003eEducation--The Æsthetic Value of Nakedness--The Human Body as One of the\u003cbr\u003ePrime Tonics of Life--How Nakedness May Be Cultivated--The Moral Value of\u003cbr\u003eNakedness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE VALUATION OF SEXUAL LOVE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Conception of Sexual Love--The Attitude of Mediæval Asceticism--St.\u003cbr\u003eBernard and St. Odo of Cluny--The Ascetic Insistence on the Proximity of\u003cbr\u003ethe Sexual and Excretory Centres--Love as a Sacrament of Nature--The Idea\u003cbr\u003eof the Impurity of Sex in Primitive Religions Generally--Theories of the\u003cbr\u003eOrigin of This Idea--The Anti-Ascetic Element in the Bible and Early\u003cbr\u003eChristianity--Clement of Alexandria--St. Augustine's Attitude--The\u003cbr\u003eRecognition of the Sacredness of the Body by Tertullian, Rufinus and\u003cbr\u003eAthanasius--The Reformation--The Sexual Instinct Regarded as Beastly--The\u003cbr\u003eHuman Sexual Instinct Not Animal-like--Lust and Love--The Definition of\u003cbr\u003eLove--Love and Names for Love Unknown in Some Parts of the World--Romantic\u003cbr\u003eLove of Late Development in the White Race--The Mystery of Sexual\u003cbr\u003eDesire--Whether Love is a Delusion--The Spiritual as Well as the Physical\u003cbr\u003eStructure of the World in Part Built up on Sexual Love The Testimony of\u003cbr\u003eMen of Intellect to the Supremacy of Love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FUNCTION OF CHASTITY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChastity Essential to the Dignity of Love--The Eighteenth Century Revolt\u003cbr\u003eAgainst the Ideal of Chastity--Unnatural Forms of Chastity--The\u003cbr\u003ePsychological Basis of Asceticism--Asceticism and Chastity as Savage\u003cbr\u003eVirtues--The Significance of Tahiti--Chastity Among Barbarous\u003cbr\u003ePeoples--Chastity Among the Early Christians--Struggles of the Saints with\u003cbr\u003ethe Flesh--The Romance of Christian Chastity--Its Decay in Mediæval\u003cbr\u003eTimes--_Aucassin et Nicolette_ and the New Romance of 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