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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6

CHAPTER V.

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THE FUNCTION OF CHASTITY. Chastity Essential to the Dignity of Love--The Eighteenth Century Revolt Against the Ideal of Chastity--Unnatural Forms of Chastity--The Psychological Basis of Asceticism--Asceticism and Chastity as Savage Virtues--The Significance of Tahiti--Chastity Among Barbarous Peoples--Chastity Among the Early Christians--Struggles of the Saints with the Flesh--The Romance of Christian Chastity--Its Decay in Mediæval Times--_Aucassin et Nicolette_ and the New Romance of Chaste Love--The Unchastity of the Northern Barbarians--The Penitentials--Influence of the Renaissance and the Reformation--The Revolt Against Virginity as a Virtue--The Modern Conception of Chastity as a Virtue--The Influences That Favor the Virtue of Chastity--Chastity as a Discipline--The Value of Chastity for the Artist--Potency and Impotence in Popular Estimation--The Correct Definitions of Asceticism and Chastity.
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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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