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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6

CHAPTER VI.

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THE PROBLEM OF SEXUAL ABSTINENCE. The Influence of Tradition--The Theological Conception of Lust--Tendency of These Influences to Degrade Sexual Morality--Their Result in Creating the Problem of Sexual Abstinence--The Protests Against Sexual Abstinence--Sexual Abstinence and Genius--Sexual Abstinence in Women--The Advocates of Sexual Abstinence--Intermediate Attitude--Unsatisfactory Nature of the Whole Discussion--Criticism of the Conception of Sexual Abstinence--Sexual Abstinence as Compared to Abstinence from Food--No Complete Analogy--The Morality of Sexual Abstinence Entirely Negative--Is It the Physician's Duty to Advise Extra-Conjugal Sexual Intercourse?--Opinions of Those Who Affirm or Deny This Duty--The Conclusion Against Such Advice--The Physician Bound by the Social and Moral Ideas of His Age--The Physician as Reformer--Sexual Abstinence and Sexual Hygiene--Alcohol--The Influence of Physical and Mental Exercise--The Inadequacy of Sexual Hygiene in This Field--The Unreal Nature of the Conception of Sexual Abstinence--The Necessity of Replacing It by a More Positive Ideal.
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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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