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_The Author of “Sanity in Sex,” “Rational Sex Series,” “The
Caveman Within Us,” and other works relating to sex and
personality, sets forth in this single volume a well-rounded,
practical exposition of sexual problems._
SEX
_and the_
LOVE-LIFE
_By_
WILLIAM J. FIELDING
There is not a man or woman but will find in this book a clarifying
light shed on many perplexing questions relating to sex and the
love-life. Even the specialized student will find the work replete
with illuminating facts and useful information, soundly interpreted.
It lays special emphasis on realizing the potentialities of the
love-life in marriage and its delicate treatment of these intimate
problems is a distinctive feature of the book. The contents of the
book as outlined in the following pages indicates the scope and
comprehensiveness of the work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS-–322 PAGES
=I. Sex and Life=—Meeting Life’s Vital Problems—Best
Preparation for Life—Countless Manifestations of Sex—Sexual
Phenomena—Evils Traced to Ignorance—Primitive Methods of
Reproduction—Asexual Reproduction—Sex Makes the Whole World
Akin—Sexual Reproduction—Secondary Sexual Characters—Sex More
Specialized in Higher Orders—The Two Paramount Urges—Hunger
and the Sex Impulse—Savages’ Attitude Toward Sex—Ancient
Sexual Practices—Sex Symbolism—Phallicism—Nature Worship—Venus
Cults—Sacred Prostitution—Lingam and Yoni Symbols—Sexual
Coldness—Congenital Frigidity—False Frigidity—Effecting a
Cure—Sidetracked Sex Energy—Results of Faulty Education—
Puritanical Principles—Celibacy—Ecclesiastical Law—Theological
Influence—-“Sins of the Flesh”—Early Ascetic Ideals—Error of
Sex Denial—Celibacy Not a Normal Life—Effects of Sexual
Suppression.
=II. Development of the Love-Life=—Stages of Sexual
Development—Friendship and Love—Esthetic Significance of Sex—
Love the Refinement of Sexual Impulse—Altruism and
Self-Sacrifice—Sex Life of the Child—Sexual Instincts
Manifested from Birth—Stages of Progress—The Detumescence
Instinct—The Autoerotic Stage—Sucking, an Erotic Pleasure—
Erogenous (Love-producing) Zones—Narcissism—The Legend of
Narcissus—Self-love—Prepubescence—Love in Childhood—
Childhood’s Sex Interests Repressed—Sublimation—Erotic
Compensation—Cultural Accomplishments—Adolescence—The Boy and
Girl—Physical and Psychic Manifestations—What Impels to Love—
The Parent Image—Copying Psychological Patterns—Ego and Sex
Ideals—The Love-Object—Fixations—Peculiarities of the
Love-Life—Psychic Impotence—Frigid Wives—Fetichism—Sexual
Significance of Fetiches—Exhibitionism—Normal and Abnormal
Traits—Sexual Curiosity—Sadism and Masochism—Homosexuality—
Psychological Problems—Environmental Factors—Homosexual
Feelings Repressed.
=III. Man’s Sexual Nature=—Comparison of the Male and Female—
Represent Different Types of Eroticism—Anatomy and Physiology
of Male Sex Organs—The Penis—The Glands—The Prepuce—
Circumcision—The Testes—The Vas Deferens—The Epididymis—The
Seminal Vesicles—Cowper’s Glands—Prostate Gland—Urethra—The
Seminal Fluid—Semen—Spermatozoa—Internal Chemistry—Ductless
Glands—The Hormones—Interstitial Glands—Chemical Aspects of
Sex—The Endocrine System—Thyroid—Parathyroid—Pituitary—
Adrenals—Thymus—Pineal—Pancreas—Insulin—Activity of Male Sex
Organs—Nocturnal (night) Emissions—A Normal Episode—Diurnal
(day) Emissions—Man’s “Change of Life”—A Preparation for
Senescence—Period of Sexual Decline—The Don Juan—A
Constructive Period Ahead.
=IV. Woman’s Sexual Nature=—Sexual Instinct in Woman—Woman’s
Sexual Organization More Complex Than Man’s—Feminine Eroticism
More Highly Ramified—Woman’s Emotional Nature—Strength of
Sexual Impulse—Woman Sexually Conservative—Variations in
Sexual Impulse—Sexual Desire Outlasts the Reproductive Life—
Anatomy and Physiology of Female Organs—The Ovaries—Graafian
Follicles—Process of Ovulation—Fallopian Tubes—Salpingitis—The
Uterus (Womb)—The Vagina—The Hymen—The Vulva—Bartholin Glands—
The Pelvis—The Mammary Glands—The Internal Secretions—Normal
Effects at Puberty—Effects of Deficiency of Secretions—
Menstruation—Symptoms of Initial Appearance—Hygiene of
Menstruation—Disorders Due to Constipation—Re-establishing
Premature Cessation of Flow—The Menopause.
=V. Preparation for Marriage=—Looking Forward to Marriage—
Importance of Preparation—Confusion of Ideals—Innocence and
Modesty—Prudery—Marriage: Past and Future—Dual Moral Code—
Status of Monogamy—Polygamy and Promiscuity—Fictitious
Chivalry—True Love Must Be Free—Woman’s Intellectual
Liberation—Its Beneficial Effects—The Realities of Marriage—
Courtship As a Preparation—Not an Educational Substitute—
Period of Intimate Association—Tactless Lovers in Courtship—
The Vehement Wooer and Defensive Partner—Courtship a Continual
Preparation—The Pairing Hunger—Length of Engagements—Long
Engagements Often Injurious—Proper Age to Marry—Economic
Hindrance at Most Favorable Period—Consanguineous Marriage, or
Marriage of Blood Relatives—Between First and Second Cousins—
Not Harmful in Itself—Unless Family History Is Bad—Hereditary
Traits Accentuated in Offspring of Blood Relatives—Either Good
or Bad Latent Traits May Be Marked in Children.
=VI. Sex Hygiene in Marriage=—The Conjugal Relations—
Expressing Love Deepens the Love Feeling—Love Cannot Be
Separated from Sexuality—Courtship and Married Lovers—Wooing
As an Essential Preparation—The Consummation of Love—Woman
Must Be Wooed Before Every Act of Coitus—Characteristics of
Feminine Nature—Woman’s Role In the Sex Relations—The Sex Act
Means More to the Female—Woman’s Subconscious Maternal
Solicitude—Benefits of Sexual Expression—Key to Happiness in
Marriage—Greater Longevity of Married Women—The Sexual
Initiation of the Bride—Coitus the Fulfilment of a Natural
Law—One of the Most Beautiful and Sacred Phenomena of Life—
Gives Marriage Its Wonderful Potentialities—Overcoming Sexual
Coldness—Keeping Romance in Marriage—Jealousy the Destroyer—
Frequency of Sex Relations—Intercourse During Menstruation—
Intercourse During Pregnancy.
=VII. Woman’s Love-rights=—Right of Female to Enjoyment of
Sexual Function—Recognized Among Savages—Erotic Impact of
“Marriage by Capture”—The Erogenous (Love-producing) Zones and
Their Significance in Woman’s Love-Life—Sensual Feeling of the
Skin—Woman the Affectionate Sex—Effects of Unsatisfactory
Marital Life—Woman Craves Love and Affection—“Love Has to Go
to School”—The Bridal Night—Its Difficulties and Their
Solution—Hygiene of the Honeymoon—Reciprocity in the Sex
Relations—Mutual Rights of the Husband and Wife.
=VIII. Birth Control in Relation to the Love-Life=—What Birth
Control Really Means—Ignorant Confusion with Abortion—Legal
Proscription of Contraception—Ban on Contraceptive Information
Fosters Abortion—Religious Prejudice Against Contraception—
Individual Clergymen Advocate Birth Control—Morality of Birth
Control—Immorality of Excessive Child-bearing. Fallacy of
Intercourse for Reproduction Only—Sexual Union Has a Value
Aside from Procreation—Not Purely a Physical or Animal
Function—Continuous Child-bearing a Primitive Practice—
Trusting to “Instinct” and “Nature”—Fear of Pregnancy, and
Marital —Coercion for a Morbid Ideal by Opponents of Birth
Control.
=IX. The Hygiene of Pregnancy=—The Phenomenon of Conception—
The Beginning of Pregnancy—How to Calculate Date of
Confinement—Ely’s Table and Other Methods—Most Favorable Time
of Conception—Changes in the Pregnant Woman—Signs and Symptoms
of Pregnancy—Probable and Direct Signs—Embryology—
Month-by-Month Development of the Fetus—Labor Pains and
Parturition—Maternal Impressions—Their Superstitions—Prenatal
Care—Rest and Exercise—Diet—Care of Teeth—Care of the Nipples—
How Sex Is Determined—Superstitions About Influencing Sex of
the Child—Sex Development in the Embryo—The Chromosome
Hypothesis of Sex Determination—Sex Determined by the Male
Fertilizing Element—Sex Determination and Twins.
=X. The Menopause—Beginning a New Epoch of Life=—The End of
the Reproductive Period—Not the End of the Sexual Life—Age at
Which Menopause Occurs—Various Manifestations of Approach—
Premature Menopause, and Its Treatment—Retarded Menopause—
Characteristic Symptoms of Climacteric—Sudden Cessation of
Menstruation—Other Common Symptoms—Menstrual Irregularity—
Obesity—Cardiac or Heart Troubles—Digestive Disturbances—
Disorders of the Skin—Pruritus—Cancer and Other Growths—
Nervous and Mental Disorders—Climacteric Psychosis—Remarks on
“The Dangerous Age”—Casting Out Fear—A Constructive Period
Ahead—Woman’s Greater Vitality and Longevity—Hygiene of the
Menopause—Bathing—Exercise—Diet—Other. Precautions for Health—
Sexual Life After the Climacteric—Increased Sexual Desire in
Post-Menopause Period.
=XI. Sexual Disorders of Women=—Sexual Basis of Nervous
Disorders—Neurasthenia—Anxiety Neurosis—Hysteria—Results of
Unsatisfactory Marital Relations—Factors in Marriage That
Influence Sexual Life—Sterility, or Barrenness—One-Child
Sterility—Frigidity, or Sexual Coldness—Disorders Due to
Abstinence—=Coitus Interruptus=—Common Disturbances of Women—
Leucorrhea—Menstrual Disorders—Dysmenorrhea—Menorrhagia—
Amenorrhea—Abortion: Spontaneous, Induced (Illegal or
Criminal), and Therapeutic—Displacements of the Womb—
Nymphomania—Masturbation—Exaggerated Statement of Its Evils—
Why It Is a Bad Habit in Growing Boys and Girls.
=XII.—Sexual Disorders of Men=—Nervous Disturbances—Fatigue
from Mental Effort Alone a Rare Phenomenon—Sexual Factors in
Neuroses—Nervous Breakdown from Suppressing Sexual Life—Sexual
Determinants of Anxiety Neurosis—Sexual Neurasthenia;
Hereditary and Acquired—Neurasthenia Not So Much Actual
Nervous Debility As Lack of Control—=Coitus Interruptus= a
Factor in Male Neurasthenia—Sexual Impotence and Sterility—
Impotence Resulting from Continence-Absolute and Irremediable
Sterility—Relative and Transient Sterility—Prostatitis—
Azoospermia—Aspermatism—Satyriasis—Masturbation—Confusion with
“Onanism”—Prevalence Among Animals—Opinions of Some Famous
Medical Scientists.
=XIII. Venereal Diseases=—Universality of Venereal Diseases—
Gonorrhea—The Most Prevalent of Adult Infectious Diseases—
Discovery of the Germ, and Its Description—Symptoms of the
Disease—Infection of Innocent Wives—Effects of Gonorrhea on
Women—“Honeymoon Appendicitis”—Gonorrhea Vulvo-vaginitis—
Racial Effects of Gonorrhea—Gonorrhea As a Factor in Male
Sterility—Ophthalmia Neonatorum—Syphilis—Description of Its
Germ—Symptoms of the Different Stages—Becomes a Constitutional
Disease—Ravages of the Tertiary Stage—Locomotor Ataxia and
Paresis Among Late Effects—Hereditary Syphilis—May Be Cured If
Properly Treated in Time—Chancroid or “Soft Sore”—Gangrenus
Balanitis—Prostitution—Prostitutes Largely subnormal—
Clandestine Prostitution.
=XIV. The Parent and the Child=—Education Begins at Birth—
Child Normally Looks First to Parents for Information—Sex
Education Should Be Part of Child’s General Education—Never
Unduly Emphasized—Answering the Question: “Where do Babies
Come From?”—The Meaning of Education in Its Broad Sense—
Tyranny of Excessive Affection—Personality of Child Should Be
Developed, Not Stifled—Psychic Re-education—Curiosity of the
Small Child—Special Problems of the Boy—Puberty—Secondary
Sexual Characteristics—Physical Changes Mental Changes—Sexual
Development of Puberty—Night Emissions—Masturbation—
Preparation for Manhood—Special Problems of the Girl—The Need
for Self-Knowledge—Adolescence—Physical Changes—Mental
Changes—Other Problems of the Sexual Life.
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The author, whose works on subjects relating to sex and personality
have been circulated to the extent of well over a million copies,
has endeavored in this book to meet the demand for a thoroughly
well-rounded practical exposition of the sexual problems, concisely
set forth in a single volume. The result, as indicated in the table
of contents quoted above, is a complete, frank discussion of every
relevant question concerning sex in general, with special attention
devoted to those intimate problems of the love-life in marriage that
too long have been considered taboo.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected typographical errors.
2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
4. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.