An eye for an eye

Salome, Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere’s Fan.

Ideal Husband and A Woman of No Importance.

De Profundis (Out of the Depths).

Dorian Gray (Novel).

Poems (Harlot’s House, Sphinx, Reading Gaol, etc.)

Fairy Tales and Poems in Prose.

Pen, Pencil and Poison.

Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.

Queen Pedauque.

Red Lily.

Thais.

Flame of Life.

Child of Pleasure.

Maidens of the Rocks.

Triumph of Death.

Jude the Obscure.

Major of Casterbridge.

Return of the Native.

Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Beyond Good and Evil.

Genealogy of Morals.

Ecce Homo and The Birth of Tragedy.

Doll’s House, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People.

Hedda Gabler, Pillars of Society and The Master Builder.

Wild Duck, Rosmersholm and The League of Youth.

Love and Other Stories (For Sale, Clochette, His Wedding Night, Moonlight, etc.)

Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Tales (Piece of String, Tallow Ball, Useless Beauty, The Horla, A Farm Girl, etc.).

Une Vie (Story of a Woman’s Heart).

Poor White (A Novel).

Winesburg, Ohio (Short Stories).

Erewhon, or Over the Range.

Way of All Flesh.

Beyond Life.

Cream of the Jest.

South Wind (A Novel).

Old Calabria.

Dreamer’s Tales.

Book of Wonder.

Madame Bovary.

Temptation of St. Anthony.

Mikado, Iolanthe, Pirates of Penzance, and The Gondoliers.

H. M. S. Pinafore, Patience, Yeomen of the Guard and Ruddigore.

New Grub Street.

Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft.

Night in the Luxembourg.

Virgin Heart (Translated by Aldous Huxley).

Green Mansions.

Purple Land.

Rainbow.

Sons and Lovers.

Diana of the Crossways.

Ordeal of Richard Feverel.

Renaissance.

Marius the Epicurean.

Anatol, Green Cockatoo, and Living Hours.

Bertha Garlan.

Married.

Miss Julie, The Creditor, The Stronger Woman, Motherly Love, Paria and Simoon.

Redemption, Power of Darkness and Fruits of Culture.

Death of Ivan Ilyitch, Polikushka, Two Hussars, Snowstorm, and Three Deaths.

Fathers and Sons.

Smoke.

Modern American Poetry. Ed. Conrad Aiken.

Seven That Were Hanged and the Red Laugh. Leonid Andreyev.

Short Stories by Honore de Balzac (Don Juan, Christ in Flanders, Time of the Terror, Passion in the Desert, Accursed House, Atheist’s Mass, etc.).

Prose and Poetry. Baudelaire.

Art of Aubrey Beardsley (64 Reproductions).

Art of Rodin (64 Reproductions).

Jungle Peace. William Beebe.

Zuleika Dobson. Max Beerbohm.

In the Midst of Life (Stories). Ambrose Bierce.

Poems of William Blake.

Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte.

House With the Green Shutters. George Douglas Brown.

Love’s Coming of Age. Edward Carpenter.

Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and Hunting of the Snark. Lewis Carroll.

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.

Rothschild’s Fiddle. Anton Chekhov.

Man Who Was Thursday. G. K. Chesterton.

Men, Women and Boats. Stephen Crane.

Sapho. Alphonse Daudet. Also contains Manon Lescaut (When a Man Loves) by Antoine Prevost.

Moll Flanders. Daniel Defoe.

Poor People. Feodor Dostoyevsky.

Poems and Prose. Ernest Dowson.

Free and Other Stories. Theodore Dreiser.

Camille. Alexandre Dumas.

New Spirit, The. Havelock Ellis.

Life of the Caterpillar. Jean Henri Fabre.

Jorn Uhl. Gustav Frenssen.

Mlle. de Maupin. Theophile Gautier.

Bed of Roses. W. L. George.

Renee Mauperin. E. and J. de Goncourt.

Creatures That Once Were Men and Other Stories. Maxim Gorki.

Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Some Chinese Ghosts. Lafcadio Hearn.

Erik Dorn. Ben Hecht.

Daisy Miller and An International Episode. Henry James.

Philosophy of William James.

Dubliners. James Joyce.

Soldiers Three. Rudyard Kipling.

Men in War. Andreas Latzko.

Upstream. Ludwig Lewisohn.

Mme. Chrysantheme. Pierre Loti.

Spirit of American Literature. John Macy.

Miracle of St. Anthony, Pelleas and Melisande, and Four Other Plays. Maurice Maeterlinck.

Moby Dick, or The Whale. Herman Melville.

Romance of Leonardo da Vinci. Dmitri Merejkowski.

Plays by Moliere (Highbrow Ladies, School for Wives, Tartuffe, Misanthrope, etc.)

Confessions of a Young Man. George Moore.

Tales of Mean Streets. Arthur Morrison.

Moon of the Caribbees and Other Plays (Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, Ile, etc.). Eugene O’Neill.

Writings of Thomas Paine.

Pepys’ Diary.

Best Tales of Poe.

Life of Jesus. Ernest Renan.

Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell.

Imperial Orgy. Edgar Saltus.

Studies in Pessimism. Arthur Schopenhauer.

Story of an African Farm. Olive Schreiner.

Unsocial Socialist. George Bernard Shaw.

Philosophy of Spinoza.

Treasure Island. Robert Louis Stevenson.

Ego and His Own. Max Stirner.

Dame Care. Hermann Sudermann.

Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Complete Poems of Francis Thompson.

Ancient Man. Hendrik Willem van Loon.

Poems of Francois Villon.

Candide. Voltaire.

Ann Veronica. H. G. Wells.

Poems of Walt Whitman.

Selected Addresses and Papers of Woodrow Wilson.

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales. William Butler Yeats.

Nana. Emile Zola.

A Modern Book of Criticisms: Edited by Ludwig Lewisohn, with contributions by G. B. Shaw, Anatole France, Remy de Gourmont, Geo. Moore, etc.

The Woman Question: Westermarck’s Subjection of Wives, Ellen Key’s Right of Motherhood, Carpenter’s Woman in Freedom, Maeterlinck’s On Women, Havelock Ellis’ Changing Status of Women, etc.

Evolution in Modern Thought: Complete survey of modern views of the evolution of man.

Best Russian Stories: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgeney, Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Garshin, Chekhov, Gorky, Andreyev, Artzybashev, etc.

Best Ghost Stories: Kipling’s Phantom Rickshaw, Blackwood’s Woman’s Ghost Story, Matthews’ Rival Ghosts, Bierce’s Damned Thing, etc.

Best American Humorous Stories: Hale’s My Double, Holmes’ Visit to the Asylum, O. Henry’s Duplicity of Hargraves, etc.

Contemporary Science, a series of scientific articles by leading authorities, on physics, engineering, enzymes, bacteriology, Einstein, etc.

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis, with contributions by Sigmund Freud, S. Ferenczi, Dr. Stekel, Dr. Jung, etc.

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The Author of “Sanity in Sex,” “Rational Sex Series,” “The Caveman Within Us,” and other works relating to sex and personality, sets forth in this single volume a well-rounded, practical exposition of sexual problems.

There is not a man or woman but will find in this book a clarifying light shed on many perplexing questions relating to sex and the love-life. Even the specialized student will find the work replete with illuminating facts and useful information, soundly interpreted. It lays special emphasis on realizing the potentialities of the love-life in marriage and its delicate treatment of these intimate problems is a distinctive feature of the book. The contents of the book as outlined in the following pages indicates the scope and comprehensiveness of the work.

I. Sex and Life—Meeting Life’s Vital Problems—Best Preparation for Life—Countless Manifestations of Sex—Sexual Phenomena—Evils Traced to Ignorance—Primitive Methods of Reproduction—Asexual Reproduction—Sex Makes the Whole World Akin—Sexual Reproduction—Secondary Sexual Characters—Sex More Specialized in Higher Orders—The Two Paramount Urges—Hunger and the Sex Impulse—Savages’ Attitude Toward Sex—Ancient Sexual Practices—Sex Symbolism—Phallicism—Nature Worship—Venus Cults—Sacred Prostitution—Lingam and Yoni Symbols—Sexual Coldness—Congenital Frigidity—False Frigidity—Effecting a Cure—Sidetracked Sex Energy—Results of Faulty Education—Puritanical Principles—Celibacy—Ecclesiastical Law—Theological Influence—-“Sins of the Flesh”—Early Ascetic Ideals—Error of Sex Denial—Celibacy Not a Normal Life—Effects of Sexual Suppression.

II. Development of the Love-Life—Stages of Sexual Development—Friendship and Love—Esthetic Significance of Sex—Love the Refinement of Sexual Impulse—Altruism and Self-Sacrifice—Sex Life of the Child—Sexual Instincts Manifested from Birth—Stages of Progress—The Detumescence Instinct—The Autoerotic Stage—Sucking, an Erotic Pleasure—Erogenous (Love-producing) Zones—Narcissism—The Legend of Narcissus—Self-love—Prepubescence—Love in Childhood—Childhood’s Sex Interests Repressed—Sublimation—Erotic Compensation—Cultural Accomplishments—Adolescence—The Boy and Girl—Physical and Psychic Manifestations—What Impels to Love—The Parent Image—Copying Psychological Patterns—Ego and Sex Ideals—The Love-Object—Fixations—Peculiarities of the Love-Life—Psychic Impotence—Frigid Wives—Fetichism—Sexual Significance of Fetiches—Exhibitionism—Normal and Abnormal Traits—Sexual Curiosity—Sadism and Masochism—Homosexuality—Psychological Problems—Environmental Factors—Homosexual Feelings Repressed.

III. Man’s Sexual Nature—Comparison of the Male and Female—Represent Different Types of Eroticism—Anatomy and Physiology of Male Sex Organs—The Penis—The Glands—The Prepuce—Circumcision—The Testes—The Vas Deferens—The Epididymis—The Seminal Vesicles—Cowper’s Glands—Prostate Gland—Urethra—The Seminal Fluid—Semen—Spermatozoa—Internal Chemistry—Ductless Glands—The Hormones—Interstitial Glands—Chemical Aspects of Sex—The Endocrine System—Thyroid—Parathyroid—Pituitary—Adrenals—Thymus—Pineal—Pancreas—Insulin—Activity of Male Sex Organs—Nocturnal (night) Emissions—A Normal Episode—Diurnal (day) Emissions—Man’s “Change of Life”—A Preparation for Senescence—Period of Sexual Decline—The Don Juan—A Constructive Period Ahead.

IV. Woman’s Sexual Nature—Sexual Instinct in Woman—Woman’s Sexual Organization More Complex Than Man’s—Feminine Eroticism More Highly Ramified—Woman’s Emotional Nature—Strength of Sexual Impulse—Woman Sexually Conservative—Variations in Sexual Impulse—Sexual Desire Outlasts the Reproductive Life—Anatomy and Physiology of Female Organs—The Ovaries—Graafian Follicles—Process of Ovulation—Fallopian Tubes—Salpingitis—The Uterus (Womb)—The Vagina—The Hymen—The Vulva—Bartholin Glands—The Pelvis—The Mammary Glands—The Internal Secretions—Normal Effects at Puberty—Effects of Deficiency of Secretions—Menstruation—Symptoms of Initial Appearance—Hygiene of Menstruation—Disorders Due to Constipation—Re-establishing Premature Cessation of Flow—The Menopause.

V. Preparation for Marriage—Looking Forward to Marriage—Importance of Preparation—Confusion of Ideals—Innocence and Modesty—Prudery—Marriage: Past and Future—Dual Moral Code—Status of Monogamy—Polygamy and Promiscuity—Fictitious Chivalry—True Love Must Be Free—Woman’s Intellectual Liberation—Its Beneficial Effects—The Realities of Marriage—Courtship As a Preparation—Not an Educational Substitute—Period of Intimate Association—Tactless Lovers in Courtship—The Vehement Wooer and Defensive Partner—Courtship a Continual Preparation—The Pairing Hunger—Length of Engagements—Long Engagements Often Injurious—Proper Age to Marry—Economic Hindrance at Most Favorable Period—Consanguineous Marriage, or Marriage of Blood Relatives—Between First and Second Cousins—Not Harmful in Itself—Unless Family History Is Bad—Hereditary Traits Accentuated in Offspring of Blood Relatives—Either Good or Bad Latent Traits May Be Marked in Children.

VI. Sex Hygiene in Marriage—The Conjugal Relations—Expressing Love Deepens the Love Feeling—Love Cannot Be Separated from Sexuality—Courtship and Married Lovers—Wooing As an Essential Preparation—The Consummation of Love—Woman Must Be Wooed Before Every Act of Coitus—Characteristics of Feminine Nature—Woman’s Role In the Sex Relations—The Sex Act Means More to the Female—Woman’s Subconscious Maternal Solicitude—Benefits of Sexual Expression—Key to Happiness in Marriage—Greater Longevity of Married Women—The Sexual Initiation of the Bride—Coitus the Fulfilment of a Natural Law—One of the Most Beautiful and Sacred Phenomena of Life—Gives Marriage Its Wonderful Potentialities—Overcoming Sexual Coldness—Keeping Romance in Marriage—Jealousy the Destroyer—Frequency of Sex Relations—Intercourse During Menstruation—Intercourse During Pregnancy.

VII. Woman’s Love-rights—Right of Female to Enjoyment of Sexual Function—Recognized Among Savages—Erotic Impact of “Marriage by Capture”—The Erogenous (Love-producing) Zones and Their Significance in Woman’s Love-Life—Sensual Feeling of the Skin—Woman the Affectionate Sex—Effects of Unsatisfactory Marital Life—Woman Craves Love and Affection—“Love Has to Go to School”—The Bridal Night—Its Difficulties and Their Solution—Hygiene of the Honeymoon—Reciprocity in the Sex Relations—Mutual Rights of the Husband and Wife.

VIII. Birth Control in Relation to the Love-Life—What Birth Control Really Means—Ignorant Confusion with Abortion—Legal Proscription of Contraception—Ban on Contraceptive Information Fosters Abortion—Religious Prejudice Against Contraception—Individual Clergymen Advocate Birth Control—Morality of Birth Control—Immorality of Excessive Child-bearing. Fallacy of Intercourse for Reproduction Only—Sexual Union Has a Value Aside from Procreation—Not Purely a Physical or Animal Function—Continuous Child-bearing a Primitive Practice—Trusting to “Instinct” and “Nature”—Fear of Pregnancy, and Marital —Coercion for a Morbid Ideal by Opponents of Birth Control.

IX. The Hygiene of Pregnancy—The Phenomenon of Conception—The Beginning of Pregnancy—How to Calculate Date of Confinement—Ely’s Table and Other Methods—Most Favorable Time of Conception—Changes in the Pregnant Woman—Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy—Probable and Direct Signs—Embryology—Month-by-Month Development of the Fetus—Labor Pains and Parturition—Maternal Impressions—Their Superstitions—Prenatal Care—Rest and Exercise—Diet—Care of Teeth—Care of the Nipples—How Sex Is Determined—Superstitions About Influencing Sex of the Child—Sex Development in the Embryo—The Chromosome Hypothesis of Sex Determination—Sex Determined by the Male Fertilizing Element—Sex Determination and Twins.

X. The Menopause—Beginning a New Epoch of Life—The End of the Reproductive Period—Not the End of the Sexual Life—Age at Which Menopause Occurs—Various Manifestations of Approach—Premature Menopause, and Its Treatment—Retarded Menopause—Characteristic Symptoms of Climacteric—Sudden Cessation of Menstruation—Other Common Symptoms—Menstrual Irregularity—Obesity—Cardiac or Heart Troubles—Digestive Disturbances—Disorders of the Skin—Pruritus—Cancer and Other Growths—Nervous and Mental Disorders—Climacteric Psychosis—Remarks on “The Dangerous Age”—Casting Out Fear—A Constructive Period Ahead—Woman’s Greater Vitality and Longevity—Hygiene of the Menopause—Bathing—Exercise—Diet—Other. Precautions for Health—Sexual Life After the Climacteric—Increased Sexual Desire in Post-Menopause Period.

XI. Sexual Disorders of Women—Sexual Basis of Nervous Disorders—Neurasthenia—Anxiety Neurosis—Hysteria—Results of Unsatisfactory Marital Relations—Factors in Marriage That Influence Sexual Life—Sterility, or Barrenness—One-Child Sterility—Frigidity, or Sexual Coldness—Disorders Due to Abstinence—Coitus Interruptus—Common Disturbances of Women—Leucorrhea—Menstrual Disorders—Dysmenorrhea—Menorrhagia—Amenorrhea—Abortion: Spontaneous, Induced (Illegal or Criminal), and Therapeutic—Displacements of the Womb—Nymphomania—Masturbation—Exaggerated Statement of Its Evils—Why It Is a Bad Habit in Growing Boys and Girls.

XII.—Sexual Disorders of Men—Nervous Disturbances—Fatigue from Mental Effort Alone a Rare Phenomenon—Sexual Factors in Neuroses—Nervous Breakdown from Suppressing Sexual Life—Sexual Determinants of Anxiety Neurosis—Sexual Neurasthenia; Hereditary and Acquired—Neurasthenia Not So Much Actual Nervous Debility As Lack of Control—Coitus Interruptus a Factor in Male Neurasthenia—Sexual Impotence and Sterility—Impotence Resulting from Continence-Absolute and Irremediable Sterility—Relative and Transient Sterility—Prostatitis—Azoospermia—Aspermatism—Satyriasis—Masturbation—Confusion with “Onanism”—Prevalence Among Animals—Opinions of Some Famous Medical Scientists.

XIII. Venereal Diseases—Universality of Venereal Diseases—Gonorrhea—The Most Prevalent of Adult Infectious Diseases—Discovery of the Germ, and Its Description—Symptoms of the Disease—Infection of Innocent Wives—Effects of Gonorrhea on Women—“Honeymoon Appendicitis”—Gonorrhea Vulvo-vaginitis—Racial Effects of Gonorrhea—Gonorrhea As a Factor in Male Sterility—Ophthalmia Neonatorum—Syphilis—Description of Its Germ—Symptoms of the Different Stages—Becomes a Constitutional Disease—Ravages of the Tertiary Stage—Locomotor Ataxia and Paresis Among Late Effects—Hereditary Syphilis—May Be Cured If Properly Treated in Time—Chancroid or “Soft Sore”—Gangrenus Balanitis—Prostitution—Prostitutes Largely subnormal—Clandestine Prostitution.

XIV. The Parent and the Child—Education Begins at Birth—Child Normally Looks First to Parents for Information—Sex Education Should Be Part of Child’s General Education—Never Unduly Emphasized—Answering the Question: “Where do Babies Come From?”—The Meaning of Education in Its Broad Sense—Tyranny of Excessive Affection—Personality of Child Should Be Developed, Not Stifled—Psychic Re-education—Curiosity of the Small Child—Special Problems of the Boy—Puberty—Secondary Sexual Characteristics—Physical Changes Mental Changes—Sexual Development of Puberty—Night Emissions—Masturbation—Preparation for Manhood—Special Problems of the Girl—The Need for Self-Knowledge—Adolescence—Physical Changes—Mental Changes—Other Problems of the Sexual Life.

The author, whose works on subjects relating to sex and personality have been circulated to the extent of well over a million copies, has endeavored in this book to meet the demand for a thoroughly well-rounded practical exposition of the sexual problems, concisely set forth in a single volume. The result, as indicated in the table of contents quoted above, is a complete, frank discussion of every relevant question concerning sex in general, with special attention devoted to those intimate problems of the love-life in marriage that too long have been considered taboo.