l appetite: Sadism, masochism, fetichism,
exhibitionism, homosexual love, sexual inversion, pederosis,
sodomy--Sexual anomalies in the insane and psychopathic--
Effects of alcohol on the sexual appetite--Sexual anomalies
by suggestion and auto-suggestion--Sexual perversions due to
habit 208

CHAPTER IX

The role of suggestion in sexual life--Amorous intoxication 277

CHAPTER X

The relations of the sexual question to money and property--
Prostitution, proxenetism and venal concubinage 293

CHAPTER XI

The influence of environment on sexual life--Influence of
climate--Town and country life--Vagabondage--Americanism--
Saloons and alcohol--Riches and poverty--Rank and social
position--Individual life--Boarding schools. 326

CHAPTER XII

Religion and sexual life 340

CHAPTER XIII

Rights in sexual life--Civil law--Penal law--A medico-legal
case 358

CHAPTER XIV

Medicine and sexual life--Prostitution--Sexual hygiene--
Extra-nuptial intercourse--Medical advice--Means of
regulating or preventing conception--Hygiene of marriage--
Hygiene of pregnancy--Medical advice as to marriage--Medical
secrecy--Artificial abortion--Treatment of sexual disorders 418

CHAPTER XV

Sexual morality 445

CHAPTER XVI

The sexual question in politics and in political economy 461

CHAPTER XVII

The sexual question in pedagogy 470

CHAPTER XVIII

The sexual question in art 489

CHAPTER XIX

Conclusions--Utopian ideas on the ideal marriage of the
future--Bibliographical remarks 499

THE SEXUAL QUESTION

THE SEXUAL QUESTION

INTRODUCTION

My object is to study the sexual question under all its aspects:
scientific, ethnological, pathological and social, and to seek the
best solution of the numerous problems connected with it.
Unfortunately, in publications dealing with this subject, eroticism
usually plays a considerable part, and it is difficult for an author
to abstract himself from this, for it is reflected unconsciously in
his thoughts. As all sentiment, more or less, warps judgment, it is
the duty of scienti