LOVE
A Treatise on the Science of
Sex-Attraction
For the Use of Physicians and Students of Medical
Jurisprudence
BY
BERNARD S. TALMEY, M. D.
_With forty-seven cuts, eighty-four drawings, in the text_
THIRD REVISED EDITION
Einstweilen, bis den Bau der Welt
Philosophie zusammenhält,
Erhält _sie_ das Getriebe
Durch Hunger und durch Liebe.
—SCHILLER, “_Die Weltweisen_.”
PRACTITIONERS’ PUBLISHING COMPANY
NEW YORK CITY
Copyrighted, 1919, by
CECILIA TALMEY
PREFACE
Not only among laymen but also among serious thinkers and writers
on medical topics the opinion is generally prevalent, that there is
a vast difference in the degree of intensity of the sex-impulse in
men and women. Upon this supposition rests the justification of the
double standard of sexual morality of the two sexes. If the intensity
of the amatory emotions is the same in both sexes, then there is no
justification for a double standard of sexual morality.
Now, an emotion is, in its nature, subjective. Its intensity can never
be objectively determined. Men and women may dispute the question of
the different degree of intensity of the amatory emotions till the end
of time, still they will never reach a definite conclusion. The only
way to determine the nature of an emotion is to study its pathology. If
it can be shown that the same pathological entities of the sex-instinct
are found in men and women, the inference is justified that the normal
emotions are also the same or similar in both sexes.
To prove the similarity or identity of the intensity of the sex-impulse
in both sexes, the author published in the winter of 1906-1907 his
book “Woman, A Treatise on the Normal and Pathological Emotions of
Feminine Love.” Since the publication of “Woman” he received numerous
letters with requests to write a similar treatise on the amatory
emotions of men. In 1910 the author published “Genesis, A Manual for
the Instruction of Children in Matters Sexual.” He thought that the
Description of the evolution of sex in plant and animal in “Genesis”
might supply the demand. Still the requests continued to arrive.
He then published, in 1912, “Neurasthenia Sexualis, A Treatise on
Sexual Impotence in Men and Women.” In this treatise the anatomy and
physiology of the male organs of generation were thoroughly discussed.
Still it did not fill the demand. The chapter on pathology dealt only
with impotence.
When the author finally decided to write the counterpart of “Woman”,
it occurred to him that if the amatory emotions are the same in men
and women, they ought to be treated together in one volume. Hence the
present work “Love, A Treatise on the Science of Sex-Attraction.”
Naturally the present volume recapitulates all that the author has
previously written in his three books, “Woman,” “Genesis,” and
“Neurasthenia Sexualis.” The three previous works are mere chapters of
the present treatise. Still every author grows with his work. After
years of study of the subject of sex, he was able to expand the sphere
of his previous lessons, so that even those readers who have read his
three previous books will still find some new points in this work. If
the readers should agree with this opinion, the author will consider
himself well paid for his labors.
THE AUTHOR.
New York, May, 1915.
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
The main criticism of “Love” by the reviewers of the first edition
was directed against the frequency of Latin words and phrases used
in veiling some of the more unpleasant aspects of the normal and
especially the pathological sex-activities.
Still it was not prudery which dictated this course. The ancient
language was used as a protection against the criticism of those who
would take umbrage to plain sex expressions. There is quite a number of
people who are not only possessed of the Oedipus complex or the Electra
complex, but who are also obsessed of the obscenity complex. For the
impure everything is impure. Fortunately such people’s knowledge of
Latin is, as a rule, very slight, and for them this treatise will
remain a sealed book. Physicians and lawyers for whom this book was
written know enough Latin grammar, enabling them to apprehend the
meaning of all those phrases necessary for the understanding of the
main points of the treatise. To facilitate the reader’s task the
following vocabulary of the Latin words often used has been appended.
ab initio from the outset
adduco uxi to induce
agitare to excite
aliquamdiu a little while
amatus lover
amicus friend
anser goose
ante before
aperio to open
apertus open
assiduus constant
aut or
auxilium help
aversa Venus by rectum
bis twice
braca trousers
caedo to ravish
canis dog
cito quick
coepio to begin
coire to cohabit
coitus cohabitation
collum neck
commaritus fellow-husband
commingo to urinate
commisco to copulate
commiscor to cohabitate
commixtio copulation
complexus venereus sexual intercourse
comprehendo get pregnant
compressio copulation
comprimo copulate
concarnatio coition
conceptare to get pregnant
conceptus conception
concubitalis copulative
concubitus cohabitation
concumbo cohabitate
congressio copulation
congressus coition
conjuga wife
conjugatio copulation
conjuges married couple
conjugium cohabitation
conjungo, xi to copulate
conjux husband
constuprare to abuse sexually
continuus continuous
contra against
corpus body
crinis hair
cubiculum bed-room
cubile nuptial bed
cum with
cunnilingus tongue-vagina
cupido desire
cupio to desire
delectatio deliciousness
delicia pleasures
dum while
ea she
ecclesia church
ejaculare to eject
ejectio discharge
eodemque tempore at the same time
exerceo to exercise
extraho to withdraw
facio, eci to make
fascinum penis, male organ
fellatio sucking (obscene)
fellatricia sucking (obscene)
femina woman
feminare to prostitute oneself
feminare se to masturbate
fornicatrix whore
fornix brothel
fricare to rub
gallina hen
genu knee
grabatus lounge
habeo to have
hora hour
hortus garden
humesco to become wet
humor moisture
illicio to excite
imitari to imitate
impedire to prevent
impeditare to prevent
impeditio prevention
inire to enter
initium outset
initus coition
injungo, se to cohabitate
insero to insert
insertio insertion
instar like
inter during
interula shirt
intromitto to introduce
jugiter continually
labium lip
lacesso to excite
lambo to lick
lentus slow
libido material pleasure
lingua tongue
ludo, usi to play
lumbus genitals
mamilla nipple
mamma breast
manus hand
marisca wart
marita wife
maritus husband
mater mother
membrum member
mentula male sex-organ
mentulatus erected
more after the fashion
meretricium, facere to be a prostitute
meretrix prostitute
muliebria female genitals
muliebris female
mulier woman
natis buttock
nono quoque die every nine days
nudatio denudation, baring
nudus naked
omnis every
ordo rei course of act
ovis sheep
paedicatio pederasty
paene almost
parvus small
perago to finish
pergo to continue
permulcio to touch
permulsio caress
pernoctare spend the night
pes, edis foot
pono, sui, itum to place
porca sow
porta door
posco, poposci to demand
positura position
post after
praebo mammas to suckle
praedium farm
praemo, essi to press
prostibulum brothel
pudibilia genitals
puella girl
puer boy
pulvilum pillow, small
pulvinus pillow
quot noctibus every night
resolvo to unbutton
scamnum bench
sella chair
sitis thirst
solvo to loose
spatium, temporis duration
statim at once
stupro manu to masturbate by hand
stupre in a lewd way
stuprum lewdness, prostitution, coition
stuprum facio to masturbate
stuprum manu self-abuse
stuprum mutuum mutual self-abuse
sugo to suck
suscipio to receive
suus, a um his, hers
tempus, poris time
tento to try
tergum back
tracto to touch
tractus the touch
traho to pull
unus one
ut as, that
verbero to whip, lash
vir the man
virilia male sex-organs
vita sexualis sex-life
vitium vice
volvula small vulva
With this small vocabulary on hand, the author hopes every college-bred
man will be able to read this treatise without difficulty.
THE AUTHOR.
New York, October, 1916.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: INTRODUCTION.
Hunger and love, love and civilization, sex-worship, phallicism,
yonism, mount of Venus, horseshoe, lingam, the cross, temple-courtesans,
Christianity and sex, fashion and sex, female bosom, psychology of
clothes, prudery, physician’s ignorance, morbid fiction, change in sex
discussions.