THE
SEXUAL QUESTION
A SCIENTIFIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL, HYGIENIC
AND SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY
BY
AUGUST FOREL, M.D., PH.D., LL.D.
Formerly Professor of Psychiatry at and Director of the
Insane Asylum in Zurich (Switzerland)
ENGLISH ADAPTATION FROM THE SECOND GERMAN
EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED
BY
C.F. MARSHALL, M.D., F.R.C.S.
Late Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital for
Diseases of the Skin, London
ILLUSTRATED
REVISED EDITION
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BOOK CONTENTS
CHAPTER I – The reproduction of living beings
The reproduction of living beings—History of the germ—Cell-division—Parthenogenesis—Conjugation—Mneme—Embryonic development—Difference of sexes—Castration—Hermaphrodism— Heredity—Blastophthoria PAGE 6
CHAPTER II – The evolution or descent of living beings
The evolution or descent of living beings
CHAPTER III – Natural conditions of mechanism of human coitus
Natural conditions of mechanism of human coitus—Pregnancy— Correlative sexual characters
CHAPTER IV – The sexual appetite in man and woman
The sexual appetite in man and woman—Flirtation
CHAPTER V – Love and other irradiations of the sexual appetite in the human mind
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
CHAPTER VI – Ethnology and history of the sexual life of man and of marriage
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
CHAPTER VII – Sexual evolution
Sexual evolution—Phylogeny and ontogeny of sexual life
CHAPTER VIII – Sexual pathology
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
CHAPTER IX – The role of suggestion in sexual life
The role of suggestion in sexual life—Amorous intoxication
CHAPTER X – The role of suggestion in sexual life
The relations of the sexual question to money and property— Prostitution, proxenetism and venal concubinage
CHAPTER XI – The influence of environment on sexual life
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.
CHAPTER XII – Religion and sexual life
Religion and sexual life
CHAPTER XIII – Rights in sexual life
Rights in sexual life—Civil law—Penal law—A medico-legal case
CHAPTER XIV – Medicine and sexual life
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
CHAPTER XV – Sexual morality
Sexual morality
CHAPTER XVI – The sexual question in politics and in political economy
The sexual question in politics and in political economy
CHAPTER XVII – The sexual question in pedagogy
The sexual question in pedagogy
CHAPTER XVIII – The sexual question in art
The sexual question in art
CHAPTER XIX – Conclusions
Conclusions—Utopian ideas on the ideal marriage of the future—Bibliographical remarks
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