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By Edward Carpenter
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This collection of essays examines human sexual impulse, its psychological intensity, and the tensions between instinct and evolving moral and social norms. It investigates the social position of women, contrasting servile conditions with prospects for freedom, and considers marriage both retrospectively and as a possible future institution. It advocates rethinking social arrangements toward a freer society and addresses jealousy, family structure, group-marriage origins, population controls, and early sex and star worship. Throughout, the author combines sociological observation, ethical reflection, and philosophical speculation to argue for more equitable relations between the sexes.

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Title: Love's Coming-of-Age: A series of papers on the relations of the sexes

Author: Edward Carpenter

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Language: English

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LOVE’S COMING-OF-AGE
A SERIES OF PAPERS
ON
THE RELATIONS OF THE SEXES

BY
EDWARD CARPENTER
Author of “Towards Democracy,” “England’s Ideal,” Etc.
CHICAGO
STOCKHAM PUBLISHING CO.
1902

[The little god of Love is generally represented as a child; and rightly, perhaps, considering the erratic character of his ways among the human race. There are signs, however, of a new order in the relations of the Sexes; and the following papers are, among other things, an attempt to indicate the inner laws which, rather than the outer, may guide Love when—some day—he shall have come to his full estate.]