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- THE SEXUAL QUESTION
- A SCIENTIFIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL, HYGIENIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY
- AUGUST FOREL, M.D., PH.D., LL.D.
- ENGLISH ADAPTATION FROM THE SECOND GERMAN EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED BY
- C.F. MARSHALL, M.D., F.R.C.S.
- ILLUSTRATED REVISED EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- CONTENTS
- THE SEXUAL QUESTION
- THE SEXUAL QUESTION
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER IToC
- THE REPRODUCTION OF LIVING BEINGS
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IIToC
- EVOLUTION OR DESCENT OF LIVING ORGANISMS
- CHAPTER IIIToC
- NATURAL CONDITIONS AND MECHANISM OF HUMAN COITUS—PREGNANCY—CORRELATIVE SEXUAL CHARACTERS
- CHAPTER IVToC
- THE SEXUAL APPETITE
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VToC
- LOVE AND OTHER IRRADIATIONS OF THE SEXUAL APPETITE IN THE HUMAN MIND
- PSYCHIC IRRADIATIONS OF LOVE IN MAN
- PSYCHIC IRRADIATIONS OF LOVE IN WOMEN
- FETICHISM AND ANTI-FETICHISM
- PSYCHOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF LOVE TO RELIGION
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VIToC
- ETHNOLOGY AND HISTORY OF SEXUAL LIFE IN MAN AND IN MARRIAGE
- ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE
- ANTIQUITY OF MATRIMONIAL INSTITUTIONS
- CRITICISM OF THE DOCTRINE OF PROMISCUITY
- MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY
- ADVANCES MADE BY ONE SEX TO THE OTHER—DEMANDS IN MARRIAGE
- METHODS OF ATTRACTION
- LIBERTY OF CHOICE IN MARRIAGE—PATRIARCHISM
- SEXUAL SELECTION
- LAWS OF RESEMBLANCE—HYBRIDS
- PROHIBITION OF CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGES
- SENTIMENT AND CALCULATION IN SEXUAL SELECTION
- MARRIAGE BY RAPE AND MARRIAGE BY PURCHASE
- DECADENCE OF MARRIAGE BY PURCHASE—THE DOT
- NUPTIAL CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES
- FORMS OF MARRIAGE
- DURATION OF MARRIAGE
- HISTORY OF EXTRA-CONJUGAL SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
- CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIX
- AVERAGE CRANIAL CAPACITY IN DIFFERENT RACES
- CHAPTER VIIToC
- SEXUAL EVOLUTION
- PHYLOGENY OF SEXUAL LIFE
- ONTOGENY OF SEXUAL LIFE
- CHAPTER VIIIToC
- SEXUAL PATHOLOGY
- PATHOLOGY OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS
- VENEREAL DISEASES[5]
- SEXUAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- REFLEX ANOMALIES
- PSYCHIC IMPOTENCE
- SEXUAL PARADOXY
- SEXUAL ANÆSTHESIA OR CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF THE SEXUAL SENSE AND APPETITE
- SEXUAL HYPERÆSTHESIA, OR EXAGGERATION OF THE SEXUAL APPETITE
- MASTURBATION OR ONANISM
- PERVERSIONS OF THE SEXUAL APPETITE OR PARÆSTHESIA OF THE SEXUAL SENSATION
- SEXUAL ANOMALIES IN THE INSANE AND IN PSYCHOPATHS
- EFFECTS OF NARCOTICS, ESPECIALLY ALCOHOL, ON THE SEXUAL APPETITE
- SEXUAL ANOMALIES AND PERVERSIONS BY SUGGESTION AND AUTO-SUGGESTION
- SEXUAL PERVERSIONS DUE TO HABIT
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IXToC
- SUGGESTION IN SEXUAL LIFE—AMOROUS INTOXICATION
- CHAPTER XToC
- THE SEXUAL QUESTION IN RELATION TO MONEY AND PROPERTY PROSTITUTION, PROXENETISM AND VENAL CONCUBINAGE
- GENERAL REMARKS
- MARRIAGE FOR MONEY
- PROSTITUTION AND PROXENETISM
- VENAL CONCUBINAGE
- CHAPTER XIToC
- THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON SEXUAL LIFE
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIIToC
- RELIGION AND SEXUAL LIFE
- CHAPTER XIIIToC
- RIGHTS IN SEXUAL LIFE—GENERALITIES
- CIVIL LAW
- PENAL LAW
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XIII A MEDICO-LEGAL CASE
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIVToC
- MEDICINE AND SEXUAL LIFE
- CHAPTER XVToC
- SEXUAL MORALITY
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XVIToC
- THE SEXUAL QUESTION IN POLITICS AND IN POLITICAL ECONOMY
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XVIIToC
- THE SEXUAL QUESTION IN PEDAGOGY
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XVIIIToC
- SEXUAL LIFE IN ART
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIXToC
- CONCLUSIONS
- NEGATIVE TASKS
- POSITIVE TASKS
- UTOPIAN IDEAS ON THE IDEAL MARRIAGE OF THE FUTURE
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REMARKS
- INDEX
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