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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6

CHAPTER IV.

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THE VALUATION OF SEXUAL LOVE. The Conception of Sexual Love--The Attitude of Mediæval Asceticism--St. Bernard and St. Odo of Cluny--The Ascetic Insistence on the Proximity of the Sexual and Excretory Centres--Love as a Sacrament of Nature--The Idea of the Impurity of Sex in Primitive Religions Generally--Theories of the Origin of This Idea--The Anti-Ascetic Element in the Bible and Early Christianity--Clement of Alexandria--St. Augustine's Attitude--The Recognition of the Sacredness of the Body by Tertullian, Rufinus and Athanasius--The Reformation--The Sexual Instinct Regarded as Beastly--The Human Sexual Instinct Not Animal-like--Lust and Love--The Definition of Love--Love and Names for Love Unknown in Some Parts of the World--Romantic Love of Late Development in the White Race--The Mystery of Sexual Desire--Whether Love is a Delusion--The Spiritual as Well as the Physical Structure of the World in Part Built up on Sexual Love The Testimony of Men of Intellect to the Supremacy of Love.
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1. Chapter 1 2. CHAPTER I. 3. CHAPTER II. 4. CHAPTER III. 5. CHAPTER IV. 6. CHAPTER V. 7. CHAPTER VI. 8. CHAPTER VII. 9. CHAPTER VIII. 10. CHAPTER IX. 11. CHAPTER X. 12. CHAPTER XI. 13. CHAPTER XII. 14. CHAPTER I. 15. introduction of the Notification of Births Act.) In any case, 16. 1908. This Act represents, in England, the national inauguration 17. CHAPTER II. 18. introduction of sexual physiology into schools, even in the unobtrusive 19. introduction to the sphere of religious sentiment. It is an initiation 20. introduction for the young mind to the questions of sex. But even 21. CHAPTER III. 22. CHAPTER IV. 23. CHAPTER V. 24. Part VIII) "was originally valued as a sign of greater strength 25. CHAPTER VI. 26. CHAPTER VII. 27. 1243. In Catalonia they could not sit at the same table as a lady or a 28. introduction of syphilis from America at the end of the fifteenth century 29. 14. per cent. loss of place. 30. 1. _The Economic Causation of Prostitution_.--Writers on prostitution 31. 2. _The Biological Factor of Prostitution_.--Economic considerations, as 32. 3. _The Moral Justification of Prostitution_.--There are and always have 33. 4. _The Civilizational Value of Prostitution._--The moral argument for 34. CHAPTER VIII. 35. CHAPTER IX. 36. CHAPTER X. 37. CHAPTER XI. 38. Part II, Ch. V), while thinking it is best to follow inclination, 39. CHAPTER XII. 40. introduction of new strains. (It may be noted that Reibmayr, in

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