Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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- DEDICATED TO ONE WHO TAUGHT THE AUTHOR THAT CONJUGAL AFFECTION IS NOT INFERIOR TO ROMANTIC LOVE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- HISTORY OF AN IDEA
- PRIMITIVE LOVE
- HISTORY OF AN IDEA
- ORIGIN OF A BOOK
- SKEPTICAL CRITICS
- ROBERT BURTON
- HEGEL ON GREEK LOVE
- SHELLEY ON GREEK LOVE
- MACAULAY, BULWER-LYTTON, GAUTIER
- GOLDSMITH AND ROUSSEAU
- LOVE A COMPOUND FEELING
- HERBERT SPENCER'S ANALYSIS
- ACTIVE IMPULSES MUST BE ADDED
- SENSUALITY THE ANTIPODE OF LOVE
- THE WORD ROMANTIC
- ANIMALS HIGHER THAN SAVAGES
- LOVE THE LAST, NOT THE FIRST, PRODUCT OF CIVILIZATION
- PLAN OF THIS VOLUME
- GREEK SENTIMENTALITY
- IMPORTANCE OF LOVE
- HOW SENTIMENTS CHANGE AND GROW
- NO LOVE OF ROMANTIC SCENERY
- NO LOVE IN EARLY RELIGION
- MURDER AS A VIRTUE
- SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS.
- HONORABLE POLYGAMY
- CURIOSITIES OF MODESTY
- INDIFFERENCE TO CHASTITY
- HORROR OF INCEST
- WHAT IS ROMANTIC LOVE?
- INGREDIENTS OF LOVE
- I. INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE
- ALL GIRLS EQUALLY ATTRACTIVE
- SHALLOW PREDILECTION
- REPRESSION OF PREFERENCE
- UTILITY VERSUS SENTIMENT
- A STORY OF AFRICAN LOVE
- SIMILARITY OF INDIVIDUALS AND SEXES
- PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS
- FASTIDIOUS SENSUALITY IS NOT LOVE
- TWO STORIES OF INDIAN LOVE
- FEMININE IDEALS SUPERIOR TO MASCULINE
- SEX IN BODY AND MIND
- TRUE FEMININITY AND ITS FEMALE ENEMIES
- MYSTERIES OF LOVE
- AN ORIENTAL LOVE-STORY
- II. MONOPOLISM
- JULIET AND NOTHING BUT JULIET
- BUTTERFLY LOVE
- ROMANTIC STORIES OF NON-ROMANTIC LOVE
- OBSTACLES TO MONOPOLISM
- WIVES AND GIRLS IN COMMON
- TRIAL MARRIAGES
- TWO ROMAN LOVERS
- III. JEALOUSY
- RAGE AT RIVALS
- WOMEN AS PRIVATE PROPERTY
- HORRIBLE PUNISHMENTS
- ESSENCE OF TRUE JEALOUSY
- ABSENCE OF MASCULINE JEALOUSY
- PERSIAN AND GREEK JEALOUSY
- PRIMITIVE FEMININE JEALOUSY
- ABSENCE OF FEMININE JEALOUSY
- JEALOUSY PURGED OF HATE
- A VIRTUOUS SIN
- ABNORMAL STATES
- JEALOUSY IN ROMANTIC LOVE
- IV. COYNESS
- WOMEN WHO WOO
- WERE HEBREW AND GREEK WOMEN COY?
- MASCULINE COYNESS
- SHY BUT NOT COY
- MILITARISM AND MEDIAEVAL WOMEN
- WHAT MADE WOMEN COY?
- CAPTURING WOMEN
- THE COMEDY OF MOCK CAPTURE
- WHY THE WOMEN RESIST
- QUAINT CUSTOMS
- GREEK AND ROMAN MERCENARY COYNESS
- MODESTY AND COYNESS
- UTILITY OF COYNESS
- HOW WOMEN PROPOSE
- V. HOPE AND DESPAIR—MIXED MOODS
- AMOROUS ANTITHESES
- COURTSHIP AND IMAGINATION
- EFFECTS OF SENSUAL LOVE
- VI. HYPERBOLE
- GIRLS AND FLOWERS
- EYES AND STARS
- LOCKS AND FRAGRANCE
- POETIC DESIRE FOR CONTACT
- NATURE'S SYMPATHY WITH LOVERS
- ROMANTIC BUT NOT LOVING
- THE POWER OF LOVE
- VII. PRIDE
- COMIC SIDE OF LOVE
- A MYSTERY EXPLAINED
- IMPORTANCE OF PRIDE
- VARIETIES AND GERMS
- NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SYMPTOMS OF LOVE
- VIII. SYMPATHY
- EGOTISM, NAKED OK MASKED
- DELIGHT IN THE TORTURE OF OTHERS
- INDIFFERENCE TO SUFFERING
- EXPOSING THE SICK AND AGED
- BIRTH OF SYMPATHY
- WOMEN CRUELER THAN MEN
- PLATO DENOUNCES SYMPATHY
- SHAM ALTRUISM IN INDIA
- EVOLUTION OF SYMPATHY
- AMOROUS SYMPATHY
- IX. ADORATION
- DEIFICATION OF PERSONS
- PRIMITIVE CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN
- HOMAGES TO PRIESTESSES
- KINSHIP THROUGH FEMALES ONLY
- WOMAN'S DOMESTIC RULE
- WOMAN'S POLITICAL RULE
- GREEK ESTIMATE OF WOMEN
- MAN-WORSHIP AND CHRISTIANITY
- X. UNSELFISH GALLANTRY.
- THE GALLANT ROOSTER
- UNGALLANT LOWER RACES OF MEN
- EGYPTIAN LOVE
- ARABIAN LOVE
- THE UNCHIVALROUS GREEKS
- OVID'S SHAM GALLANTRY
- MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN GALLANTRY
- "AN INSULT TO WOMAN"
- SUMMARY
- A SURE TEST OF LOVE
- XI. ALTRUISTIC SELF-SACRIFICE
- THE LADY AND THE TIGER
- A GREEK LOVE-STORY
- PERSIAN LOVE
- HERO AND LEANDER
- THE ELEPHANT AND THE LOTOS
- SUICIDE IS SELFISH
- XII. AFFECTION
- EROTIC ASSASSINS
- THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON
- STUFF AND NONSENSE
- SACRIFICES OF CANNIBAL HUSBANDS
- INCLINATIONS MISTAKEN FOR AFFECTION
- SELFISH LIKING AND ATTACHMENT
- FOOLISH FONDNESS
- UNSELFISH AFFECTION
- XIII. MENTAL PURITY
- GERMAN TESTIMONY
- ENGLISH TESTIMONY
- MAIDEN FANCIES
- PATHOLOGIC LOVE
- A MODERN SENTIMENT
- PERSIANS, TURKS, AND HINDOOS
- LOVE DESPISED IN JAPAN AND CHINA
- GREEK SCORN FOR WOMAN-LOVE
- PENETRATIVE VIRGINITY
- XIV. ADMIRATION OF PERSONAL BEAUTY
- DARWIN'S UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE
- "DECORATION" FOR PROTECTION
- WAR "DECORATIONS"
- AMULETS, CHARMS, MEDICINES.
- MOURNING LANGUAGE
- INDICATIONS OF TRIBE OR RANK
- VAIN DESIRE TO ATTRACT ATTENTION
- OBJECTS OF TATTOOING
- TATTOOING ON PACIFIC ISLANDS
- TATTOOING IN AMERICA
- TATTOOING IN JAPAN
- SCARIFICATION.
- ALLEGED TESTIMONY OF NATIVES
- MISLEADING TESTIMONY OF VISITORS
- "DECORATION" AT THE AGE OF PUBERTY
- "DECORATION" AS A TEST OF COURAGE
- MUTILATION, FASHION, AND EMULATION
- PERSONAL BEAUTY VERSUS PERSONAL DECORATION
- DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM (?)
- INDIFFERENCE TO DIRT
- REASONS FOR BATHING.
- CORPULENCE VERSUS BEAUTY
- FATTENING GIRLS FOR THE MARRIAGE MARKET
- ORIENTAL IDEALS
- THE CONCUPISCENCE THEORY OF BEAUTY
- UTILITY IS NOT BEAUTY
- A NEW SENSE EASILY LOST AGAIN
- MORAL UGLINESS
- BEAUTIFYING INTELLIGENCE
- THE STRANGE GREEK ATTITUDE
- A COMPOSITE AND VARIABLE SENTIMENT
- DEFINITION OF LOVE
- WHY CALLED ROMANTIC
- SENSUALITY, SENTIMENTALITY, AND SENTIMENT
- APPETITE AND LONGING
- WILES OF AN ORIENTAL GIRL
- RARITY OF TRUE LOVE
- MISTAKES REGARDING CONJUGAL LOVE
- HOW ROMANTIC LOVE IS METAMORPHOSED
- WHY SAVAGES VALUE WIVES
- MOURNING TO ORDER
- MOURNING FOR ENTERTAINMENT
- THE TRUTH ABOUT WIDOW-BURNING
- FEMININE DEVOTION IN ANCIENT LITERATURE
- WIVES ESTEEMED AS MOTHERS ONLY
- WHY CONJUGAL PRECEDES ROMANTIC LOVE
- OBSTACLES TO ROMANTIC LOVE
- II. COARSENESS AND OBSCENITY
- III. WAR
- IV. CRUELTY
- V. MASCULINE SELFISHNESS
- VI. CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN
- VII. CAPTURE AND SALE OF BRIDES
- VIII. INFANT MARRIAGES
- IX. PREVENTION OF FREE CHOICE
- X. SEPARATION OF THE SEXES
- XI. SEXUAL TABOOS
- XII. RACE AVERSION
- XIII. MULTIPLICITY OF LANGUAGES
- XIV. SOCIAL BARRIERS
- XV. RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE
- SPECIMENS OF AFRICAN LOVE
- BUSHMAN QUALIFICATIONS FOR LOVE
- "LOVE IN ALL THEIR MARRIAGES"
- FALSE FACTS REGARDING HOTTENTOTS
- EFFEMINATE MEN AND MASCULINE WOMEN
- HOW THE HOTTENTOT WOMAN "RULES AT HOME"
- "REGARD FOR WOMEN"
- CAPACITY FOR REFINED LOVE
- HOTTENTOT COARSENESS
- FAT VERSUS SENTIMENT
- SOUTH AFRICAN LOVE-POEMS
- A HOTTENTOT FLIRT
- KAFFIR MORALS
- INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE FOR—COWS
- BARGAINING FOR BRIDES
- AMOROUS PREFERENCES
- ZULU GIRLS NOT COY
- CHARMS AHD POEMS
- A KAFFIR LOVE-STORY
- LOWER THAN BEASTS
- COLONIES OF FREE LOVERS
- A LESSON IN GALLANTRY
- NOT A PARTICLE OF ROMANCE
- NO LOVE AMONG NEGROES
- A QUEER STORY
- SUICIDES
- POETIC LOVE ON THE CONGO
- BLACK LOVE IN KAMERUN
- A SLAVE COAST LOVE-STORY
- THE MAIDEN WHO ALWAYS REFUSED
- AFRICAN STORY-BOOKS
- THE FIVE SUITORS
- TAMBA AND THE PRINCESS
- THE SEWING MATCH
- BALING OUT THE BROOK
- PROVERBS ABOUT WOMEN
- AFRICAN AMAZONS
- WHERE WOMAN COMMANDS
- NO CHANCE FOR ROMANTIC LOVE
- PASTORAL LOVE
- ABYSSINIAN BEAUTY AND FLIRTATION
- GALLA COARSENESS
- SOMALI LOVE-AFFAIRS
- ARABIC INFLUENCES
- TOUAREG CHIVALRY
- AN AFRICAN LOVE-LETTER
- ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN LOVE
- PERSONAL CHARMS OF AUSTRALIANS
- CRUEL TREATMENT OF WOMEN
- WERE SAVAGES CORRUPTED BY WHITES?
- ABORIGINAL HORRORS
- NAKED AND NOT ASHAMED
- IS CIVILIZATION DEMORALIZING?
- ABORIGINAL WANTONNESS
- LOWER THAN BRUTES
- INDIFFERENCE TO CHASTITY
- USELESS PRECAUTIONS
- SURVIVALS OF PROMISCUITY
- ABORIGINAL DEPRAVITY
- THE QUESTION OF PROMISCUITY
- WHY DO AUSTRALIANS MARRY?
- CURIOSITIES OF JEALOUSY
- PUGNACIOUS FEMALES
- WIFE STEALING
- SWAPPING GIRLS
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF ELOPEMENTS
- CHARMING A WOMAN BY MAGIC
- OTHER OBSTACLES TO LOVE
- MARRIAGE TABOOS AND "INCEST."
- AFFECTION FOR WOMEN AND DOGS
- A HORRIBLE CUSTOM
- ROMANTIC AFFLICTION
- A LOCK OF HAIR
- TWO NATIVE STORIES
- BARRINGTON'S LOVE-STORY
- RISKING LIFE FOR A WOMAN
- GERSTAECKER'S LOVE-STORY
- LOCAL COLOR IN COURTSHIP
- LOVE-LETTERS
- ISLAND LOVE ON THE PACIFIC
- WHERE WOMEN PROPOSE
- BORNEAN CAGED GIRLS
- CHARMS OF DYAK WOMEN
- DYAK MORALS
- NOCTURNAL COURTSHIP
- HEAD HUNTERS A-WOOING
- FICKLE AND SHALLOW PASSION
- DYAK LOVE-SONGS
- THE GIRL WITH THE CLEAN FACE
- FIJIAN REFINEMENTS
- HOW CANNIBALS TREAT WOMEN
- FIJIAN MODESTY AND CHASTITY
- EMOTIONAL CURIOSITIES
- FIJIAN LOVE-POEMS
- I
- III
- SERENADES AND PROPOSALS
- SUICIDES AND BACHELORS
- SAMOAN TRAITS
- COURTSHIP PANTOMIME
- TWO SAMOAH LOVE-STORIES
- PERSONAL CHARMS OF SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS
- TAHITIANS AND THEIR WHITE VISITORS
- HEARTLESS TREATMENT OF WOMEN
- TWO STORIES OF TAHITIAN INFATUATION
- CAPTAIN COOK ON TAHITIAN LOVE
- WERE THE TONGANS CIVILIZED?
- LOVE OF SCENERY
- A CANNIBAL BARGAIN
- THE HANDSOME CHIEFS
- HONEYMOON IN A CAVE
- A HAWAIIAN CAVE-STORY
- IS THIS ROMANTIC LOVE?
- VAGARIES OF HAWAIIAN FONDNESS
- HAWAIIAN MORALS
- THE HELEN OF HAWAII
- INTERCEPTED LOVE-LETTERS
- MAORIS OF NEW ZEALAND
- THE MAIDEN OF ROTORUA
- THE MAN ON THE TREE
- LOVE IN A FORTRESS
- STRATAGEM OF AN ELOPEMENT
- MAORI LOVE-POEMS
- THE WOOING-HOUSE
- LIBERTY OF CHOICE AND RESPECT FOR WOMEN
- MAORI MORALS AND CAPACITY FOR LOVE
- HOW AMERICAN INDIANS LOVE
- THE RED LOVER
- THE FOAM WOMAN
- THE HUMPBACK MAGICIAN
- THE BUFFALO KING
- THE HAUNTED GROVE
- THE GIRL AND THE SCALP
- A CHIPPEWA LOVE-SONG
- HOW "INDIAN STORIES" ARE WRITTEN
- REALITY VERSUS ROMANCE
- DECEPTIVE MODESTY
- WERE INDIANS CORRUPTED BY WHITES?
- THE NOBLE RED MAN
- APPARENT EXCEPTIONS
- INTIMIDATING CALIFORNIA SQUAWS
- GOING A-CALUMETING
- SQUAWS AND PERSONAL BEAUTY
- ARE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS GALLANT?
- SOUTH AMERICAN GALLANTRY
- HOW INDIANS ADORE SQUAWS
- CHOOSING A HUSBAND
- COMPULSORY "FREE CHOICE"
- A BRITISH COLUMBIA STORY
- THE DANGER OF COQUETRY
- THE GIRL MARKET
- OTHER WAYS OF THWARTING FREE CHOICE
- CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN EXAMPLES
- WHY INDIANS ELOPE
- SUICIDE AND LOVE
- LOVE-CHARMS
- CURIOSITIES OF COURTSHIP
- PANTOMIMIC LOVE-MAKING
- HONEYMOON
- MUSIC IN INDIAN COURTSHIP
- INDIAN LOVE-POEMS
- MORE LOVE-STORIES
- "WHITE MAN TOO MUCH LIE"
- THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS
- VERDICT: NO ROMANTIC LOVE
- THE UNLOVING ESKIMO
- INDIA—WILD TRIBES AND TEMPLE GIRLS
- "WHOLE TRACTS OF FEELING UNKNOWN TO THEM"
- PRACTICAL PROMISCUITY
- "MARVELLOUSLY PRETTY AND ROMANTIC"
- LIBERTY OF CHOICE
- SCALPS AND FIELD-MICE
- A TOPSY-TURVY CUSTOM
- PAHÁRIA LADS AND LASSES
- CHILD MURDER AND CHILD MARRIAGE
- MONSTROUS PARENTAL SELFISHNESS
- HOW HINDOO GIRLS ARE DISPOSED OF
- HINDOOS FAR BELOW BRUTES
- CONTEMPT IN PLACE OF LOVE
- WIDOWS AND THEIR TORMENTORS
- HINDOO DEPRAVITY
- TEMPLE GIRLS
- AN INDIAN ASPASIA
- SYMPTOMS OF FEMININE LOVE
- SYMPTOMS OF MASCULINE LOVE
- LYRICS AND DRAMAS
- I. THE STORY OF SAKUNTALA
- II. THE STORY OF URVASI
- III. MALAVIKA AND AGNIMITRA
- IV. THE STORY OF SAVITRI
- V. NALA AND DAMAYANTI
- ARTIFICIAL SYMPTOMS
- THE HINDOO GOD OF LOVE
- DYING FOR LOVE
- WHAT HINDOO POETS ADMIRE IN WOMEN
- THE OLD STORY OF SELFISHNESS
- BAYADÈRES AND PRINCESSES AS HEROINES
- VOLUNTARY UNIONS NOT RESPECTABLE
- DOES THE BIBLE IGNORE ROMANTIC LOVE?
- THE STORY OF JACOB AND RACHEL
- THE COURTING OF REBEKAH
- HOW RUTH COURTED BOAZ
- NO SYMPATHY OR SENTIMENT
- A MASCULINE IDEAL OF WOMANHOOD
- NOT THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL OF LOVE
- UNCHIVALROUS SLAUGHTER OF WOMEN
- FOUR MORE BIBLE STORIES
- ABISHAG THE SHUNAMMITE
- THE SONG OF SONGS
- GREEK LOVE-STORIES AND POEMS
- CHAMPIONS OF GREEK LOVE
- GLADSTONE ON THE WOMEN OF HOMER
- ACHILLES AS A LOVER
- ODYSSEUS, LIBERTINE AND RUFFIAN
- WAS PENELOPE A MODEL WIFE?
- HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE
- BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF GREEK WOMEN
- LOVE IN SAPPHO'S POEMS
- MASCULINE MINDS IN FEMALE BODIES
- ANACREON AND OTHERS
- WOMAN AND LOVE IN AESCHYLUS
- WOMAN AND LOVE IN SOPHOCLES
- WOMAN AND LOVE IN EURIPIDES
- ROMANTIC LOVE, GREEK STYLE
- PLATONIC LOVE OF WOMEN
- SPARTAN OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOVE
- AMAZONIAN IDEAL OF GREEK WOMANHOOD
- ATHENIAN ORIENTALISM
- LITERATURE AND LIFE
- GREEK LOVE IN AFRICA
- ALEXANDRIAN CHIVALRY.
- THE NEW COMEDY
- THEOCRITUS AND CALLIMACHUS
- MEDEA AND JASON
- POETS AND HETAIRAI.
- SHORT STORIES
- GREEK ROMANCES
- DAPHNIS AND CHLOE
- HERO AND LEANDER
- CUPID AND PSYCHE
- UTILITY AND FUTURE OF LOVE
- FOOTNOTES:
- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF AUTHORS
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
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