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Title: Sex
Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English

Author: Henry Stanton

Release Date: December 2, 2007 [EBook #23680]

Language: English

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SEX

AVOIDED SUBJECTS DISCUSSED IN PLAIN ENGLISH

_By_

HENRY STANTON

[Illustration]

SOCIAL CULTURE PUBLICATIONS
151 FIFTH AVENUE . NEW YORK

Copyright, 1922
SOCIAL CULTURE PUBLICATIONS
MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A.

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. SEX 5

II. THE TRANSITION FROM CELL TO HUMAN BEING 12

III. SEX IN MALE CHILDHOOD 20

IV. SEX IN FEMALE CHILDHOOD 26

V. SEX IN THE ADOLESCENT MALE 30

VI. SEX IN THE ADOLESCENT FEMALE 35

VII. SEX IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION (THE HUSBAND) 43

VIII. SEX IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION (THE WIFE) 45

IX. SEX DISEASES 53

X. LOVE AND SEX 57

CHAPTER I

SEX

The happiness of all human beings, men and women, depends largely on
their rational solution of the sexual problem. Sex and the part it
plays in human life cannot be ignored. In the case of animals sex
plays a simpler and less complex role. It is a purely natural and
instinctive function whose underlying purpose is the perpetuation of
the species. I