lthy than all the prudishness and
false shame of our conventional morality.

DR. A. FOREL.

Chigny pres Morges (Suisse).

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
The reproduction of living beings--History of the germ--
Cell-division--Parthenogenesis--Conjugation--Mneme--Embryonic
development--Difference of sexes--Castration--Hermaphrodism--
Heredity--Blastophthoria 6

CHAPTER II

The evolution or descent of living beings 39

CHAPTER III

Natural conditions of mechanism of human coitus--Pregnancy--
Correlative sexual characters 49

CHAPTER IV

The sexual appetite in man and woman--Flirtation 72

CHAPTER V

Love and other irradiations of the sexual appetite in the
human mind--Psychic irradiations of love in man: Procreative
instinct, jealousy, sexual braggardism, pornographic spirit,
sexual hypocrisy, prudery and modesty, old bachelors--Psychic
irradiations of love in woman: Old maids, passiveness and
desire, abandon and exaltation, desire for domination,
petticoat government, desire of maternity and maternal love,
routine and infatuation, jealousy, dissimulation, coquetry,
prudery and modesty--Fetichism and anti-fetichism--
Psychological relations of love to religion 104

CHAPTER VI

Ethnology and history of the sexual life of man and of
marriage--Origin of marriage--Antiquity of matrimonial
institutions--Criticism of the doctrine of promiscuity--
Marriage and celibacy--Sexual advances and demands of
marriage--Methods of attraction--Liberty of choice--Sexual
selection--Law of resemblance--Hybrids--Prohibition of
consanguineous marriages--Role of sentiment and calculation
in sexual selection--Marriage by purchase--Decadence of
marriage by purchase--Dowry--Nuptial ceremonies--Forms of
marriage--Duration of marriage--History of extra-nuptial
sexual intercourse 144

CHAPTER VII

Sexual evolution--Phylogeny and ontogeny of sexual life 192

CHAPTER VIII

Sexual pathology--Pathology of the sexual organs--Venereal
disease--Sexual psychology--Reflex anomalies--Psychic
impotence--Sexual paradoxy--Sexual anaesthesia--Sexual
hyperaesthesia--Masturbation and onanism--Perversions
of the sexua