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The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Eden Paul translation

A

Abortion, artificial, 706-708

Abstinence, sexual, 113, 255, 448, 671-680

Accentuation of certain parts of the body by means of clothing, 139 et seq.

Accommodation, houses of, 344

Accompaniments of coitus, physiological, 50, 51

Act, sexual. See Coitus

Acts of fornication with animals. See Bestiality

Adornment: its sexual significance, 133

Advertisements, sexual, 723-728

Æsthetics, sexual element in, 34-36, 200 et seq.

Age of consent, 669

of nubility, 210

in relation to the manifestation of sexual perversions, 469-470

Ages: difference between husband and wife. See Difference between the ages of husband and wife

Agoraphobia, 451

Alcohol: its relations to the sexual life, 292-296, 377, 667

its relations to prostitution, 336

its relations to impotence, 443, 444

its relations to homosexual acts, 546

its relations to acts of fornication with children, 636

its effects upon the offspring, 713, 714

its rôle in the sexual life discussed in belletristic literature, 748

Algolagnia, 555-607

See also Sadism and Masochism

Altar of monogamy, human sacrifices on the, 244

Amativeness, excessive, 436-437

Ampallang, the, 470

Anæsthesia, sexual, 86, 432-436, 470

See also Frigidity

Anal masturbators, 546

Angina syphilitica, 360

Animals, acts of fornication with. See Bestiality

“Animierkneipen,” 341, 342

Antagonism between capitalism and love, 250

Anthropological aspect of the sexual life, 98

view of psychopathia sexualis, 453-475, 662

Antipathy of the sexes, 79

Antiseptic washes, 381

Anus: its relations to the sexual life, 42

Anxiety-neurosis, 702

Aperture-problem, 41, 42

Aperture, sexual. See Reproductive aperture

Apoplectic stroke in syphilis, 361

Arctic clothing, 139

Armpits, odour of, 623

Ars amandi, 286-290

Arsenic in the treatment of syphilis, 388

Arson from sexual motives, 577

Art of love, the, 286-290

Art, the sexual, as affording objects for artistic representation, 732 et seq.

Artistic emotional element of love, 169, 170

element, the, in modern love, 177-183

endowments, sexual differences in, 76, 77

representation of sexual matters, 732 et seq.

Asceticism, sexual, 111-118

absolute, 673

relative, 251, 252, 674-680

Asexuality, 95

Association for the Protection of Mothers, 267-278

for sexual reform, 273

Auto-erotism, 409-415. See also Masturbation and Onanism

Axillary odour, 623

Azoospermia, 442

B

Babylonian Mylitta-cult, 102, 103

Bachelorhood and incontinence, 236

Balanitis, 376

Baldness, fetichism for, 620

Ballrooms, 342-343

Barmaids and prostitution (in Germany), 341, 342, 396

Battey’s operation, 705-706

Beard: its small importance as a sexual lure, 24

Beauty and love, 35

Beauty, sense of, a function of love, 34-36

sexual differences in, 64, 65

modern ideas of, 182, 183

masculine, 182-183, 550

Belletristic literature, love in, 741-751

Berkley-horse, the, 573

Bestiality, 426, 643-646

causes of, 644

definition of, 641

sadistic, 645

Biological law of Herbert Spencer, 55, 56, 64

Bisexuality, 39, 40, 70, 71, 504, 539-541, 549-551

Biting kiss, the. See Kiss, the biting

Blackmail, 520 et seq.

Blindness due to syphilis, 361

Blood and sexuality, 51

Blood corpuscles, red: their number in men and women respectively, 62

Blood-relationship and marriage, 716

Boarding-houses, 344

Boards for the care of children, 261

Bodily injury, sadistic, 574

Body-weight, sexual differences in, 61, 62

Bohemian life, 175, 248

love, 175, 248

Bond, the marriage, and its results. See Coercive marriage

Borderland cases, 664

Born prostitute, the, 318, 325-326

Boys, love of, 547

Braguettes, 149

Brain: the distinctive differential characteristic between human and animal sexuality, 21, 22

sexual differences in, 63, 64

Breast fetichism, 620

Breasts. See Mammary glands

Breeches, wearing of, in relation to masturbation, 426-427

Breeches-flap, 149

Breeding in-and-in, 716

Briar-rose morality, 244

Brothels, 318, 337, 339, 340, 398, 399, 401-403, 614

abolition of, 318, 398, 399, 401-403

and flagellation, 573

Brothel-guides, 727

jargon, 340

slang, 340

streets, 402

Bubo, syphilitic, 359

painful (from soft chancre), 364

Buggery. See Pæderasty, Pædication, and Pædophilia

Buttock fetichism, 622

C

Cabarets, 343-344

Calcification of the arteries, 361

Capital: its relations to the sexual life, 250

Capitalism antagonistic to love, 250

Capryl odours, sexual characters of, 16

Capture, marriage by, 195

Casanova type of seducer, the, contrasted with the Don Juan type, 286-289

Castratio uterina, 705-706

Castration, 441-442

of women. See Oöphorectomy

Casuistry, sexual, literature of, 121 et seq.

Celibacy, compulsory, 274-275, 276

Cells, reproductive. See Reproductive cells

Ceremonial uncleanness, 130

Certificate of health before marriage, 256

Chance occurrences: their influence on the sexual life, 613, 644

Chancre, hard, 356, 359

soft, 356, 364

Chantage, 520 et seq.

Character, education of the, 689

Characteristic pictures of the married state, 227-231

Characters, sexual, secondary, 17, 18, 59 et seq.

Charlatans. See Quackery

Charms, kallipygian. See Kallipygian charms

Checks, preventive. See Preventive measures; also Malthusian theory and practice, and Neo-Malthusianism

Chemotropism, erotic, 15

Child-prostitution, 638-639

Children: sexual activity in, 12, 13, 637-639, 668

their protection in cases in which the parents are divorced, 219, 220

duties of parents to, 256

rights of, 259

protection of, 261

care for, compulsory, 263

illegitimate, 268 et seq., 277

child-labour and prostitution, 330

and seduction, 636

mortality of, from congenital syphilis, 362

masturbation in, 417-418

sexual suggestibility of, 464

homosexual, 497

danger of whipping, 570

sexual fetichism originating in, 613 et seq.

seduction of, 634-637

worthlessness of their evidence, 669

age of consent, 669

sexual education of, 681, 691

co-education of, 690

books read by, 733

Chiromancy, 722, 727

Christianity, sexual mysticism in, 108, 124

characteristics of Christian asceticism, 115-116

and misogyny, 482-483

Circumcision in the prophylaxis of venereal disease, 376

Civil marriage, 198, 199

Civilization: and degeneration, 459

its relations to prostitution, 322-325

its relations to auto-erotism, 410

its relations to psychopathia sexualis, 455 et seq., 471-475

Clap. See Gonorrhœa

Clitoris, diminution in its size in the human female, 22, 23

excitability of, 22, 23

the rudiment of a primitive penis, 42, 43

Cloaca love, 42

Cloistral life, the, 115 et seq.

Clothing, 130-155

arctic, 139

effect of certain fabrics upon the skin, 149, 150

distinction between ancient and modern, 142

nature of, 140, 141

reform. See Reformed dress

relation to hairy covering of the body, 23, 24

sexual differentiation of, 148, 149

tropical, 139

upper clothing and under clothing, 142

Clothing fetichism, 627-629

Clubs, secret sexual, 653, 728

Cocotte, 347

Co-education, 690

Coercive ideas, 451

Coercive marriage, 236, 316, 747

attacked by Eugen Dühring, 251

growing hostility to, 254, 255

views of Shelley regarding, 239, 240

morality, 237, 316, 747

Coffee: its deleterious influence on sexual potency, 444

Coitus, 47-51, 699, 700, 701, 702

postures during, 51

Coitus interruptus, 702-703

Collectivism and free love, 249-251

“Collier de Venus,” 360

Colour, love of, and the sexual impulse, 51, 135, 137, 615

Colour red. See Red, the colour

Committee, Scientific and Humanitarian, the, 521

Communism and free love, 249-251

Concealment of charms as a sexual stimulus, 138, 139

Conception, prevention of. See Preventive measures

relation of its occurrence to the menstrual cycle, 699

Concubinage, 203, 245

Condom, the, 378-379, 704

Condylomata, 360

Conference, National and International, for the Suppression of the Traffic in Girls, 337

International, for the Prophylaxis of Venereal Diseases, 373 et seq.

Congenital syphilis, 362

Conjugal rights, 214

Conscience, marriage of. See Free marriage

Contact, sexual significance of, 45, 753

Continence. See Abstinence

Convalescent homes, 391

Convenience, marriage of, 204

Conventional lies of our civilization, 203, 204, 236

Conventional marriage. See Coercive marriage

Conventionalism of the age of chivalry, 164

Conventionality of the present day, 472-473

Coprolagnia, 583, 625-626

Copulation. See Coitus

Coquetry, 129, 568

Corona Veneris, 300

Corpora cavernosa, 46

Correspondence, erotic, 420

treatment by means of, 656

Corset, 143-146

discipline, 574

fetichism, 629

Costume, 151-152

Council of divorce, 263

Country, sexual aberrations in, 468-469, 644-645

Cries during sexual intercourse, 51

Criminality and prostitution, 400-401

Criminologists, 699

Crimino-pedagogues, 669

Crinoline, 147, 148

Cruelty: its relations to voluptuousness, 51, 559-567

Cunnilinctus (the act), 529, 621, 624, 626

Cunnilingus, cunnilingi (the agent), 467

Cures by disgust, 436-437

Custom. See Habituation

D

Dames de voyage, 468-649. See also Hommes de voyage

Dancing saloons, 342-343

Day-dreams, sexual, 420

Deceased husband’s brother, compulsory marriage of, 196

Defects, bodily, fetichistic attractive force of, 627

Defloration, religious, 101 et seq.

mania for, 635

Pall Mall Gazette scandals, 655

Degeneration in prostitutes, 328

in consequence of syphilis, 361-363

among homosexuals, 492, 493

social causes of, 665

the result of alcoholism, 713-714

the result of syphilis, 714

the result of tuberculosis, 715

the result of mental disorders, 715

the result of diatheses, 715

Degeneration, stigmata of. See Stigmata of degeneration

Degenerative theory of sexual anomalies, 455, 459, 490, 661-662, 711

Deities, sexual, 100-104

Demand for prostitutes in large towns does not correspond to the supply, 321 et seq.

Dementia, paralytic, as a sequel of syphilis, 361

as a cause of sexual perversions, 476

senile, 476

Demi-monde, the, 345-348

relations to fashion (the mode), 153

utilization of hair-fetichism, by dyeing the hair, 615

Depilation as a sexual stimulus, 620

Descensus testiculorum, 42

Deutsche Bücherei, 739

Development, inward spiritual, love regarded as, 248

Devil’s mistresses, witches as, 119, 120

Difference between the ages of husband and wife, 211, 715, 716

Differentiation, sexual, 9-13

its importance to civilization, 14, 57

its relation to phylogenetic development, 55

nature of human, 64

physical, 53-65

psychical, 67-82

a source of sexual perversions, 466, 567

“Dippoldism,” 571-573

Disclosure, partial, of certain regions of the body, 139 et seq.

Disease and marriage, 215

Diseases, secret, 722

Diseases of women, 367

Disequilibrated, the, 664 et seq.

Disgust, cures by, 436-437

Disharmonies, sexual, 112, 410, 411, 696, 697

Disinclination to marriage, 213

Disorders, mental. See Mental disorders

Distance-love, 18, 44, 45

Divorce, 199 et seq., 217-221, 241, 257-260, 262-264

increase of, in recent years, 217-218

care of children after, 219, 220

repeated, 218, 219

followed by remarriage, 242

council of, 263

scandals, 728

Dogs, fornicatory acts with, 643, 646

Dolls, fornicatory, 648-649. See also Godemichés

Don Juan type of seducer, the, contrasted with the Casanova type, 286-289

Double love, 206-208

Douching, vaginal, 704

Duplex sexual morality, 199-200, 244, 248, 249, 673-674

E

Eccentrics, 664

Economic independence of women, 251

reform the only way to the higher love, 50

Education, sexual, 681-692

of the character and the will, 689

Effeminate urnings, 498-501

Ejaculation, 46, 47, 48

Emancipation of women, 58, 59, 79 et seq., 529, 747

Embrace: its relation to the sexual act, 42

Emissions, seminal, 437-441

Emotivity of woman, 75, 76

Enfranchisement, hereditary, 462, 463, 711-712

Enlightenment requisite regarding homosexuality, 523, 524

regarding the sexual life in general, 684-691

Ennoblement of our amatory life, 179

Epicureanism, modern, characterized, 282 et seq.

Epididymitis, 366, 442

Epilepsy: as a cause of sexual hyperæsthesia, 429

as a cause of sexual perversions, 476

as a cause of sexual bestiality, 643

as a cause of sexual exhibitionism, 649 et seq.

Epistolary masochism, 579

sadism, 579

treatment of sexual perversions, 656

Épongeurs, 625

Equivalents, sexual, 92-94, 409, 446

of menstruation, in men, 499

Erection, 50, 442-443

morning, 443

Erector, Gassen’s, 449

Ergophilia, 564-565

Erogenic areas of the skin, 31, 46

zone, the eye as an, 31

Erotic element in polite literature: its justification, 743-744

distinction from pornography, 731-734

genius, the, 289

the masterful, 288

sense of shame, 125-157, 650

Erotocrat, 679

Erotographomania, 420

Erotomania, 436-437

Erythrocytes: their number in men and women respectively, 62

Es-geht-an idea, the, 244

Essayeurs, 652

Ether intoxication, 654

Eugenics, 712

Exchange of wives, 194

Exhibitionism, 649-652

neurasthenic, 651

verbal, 578-579

Extirpation of the ovaries, 705-706

Extra-conjugal sexual intercourse, 238, 280-302

Eye, the, as an erogenic zone, 31

Eyes, the, as objects of sexual fetichism, 620

F

Face, the: its sexual relationship to the clothing, 150, 151

Factory women, condition of, 330-333

Fallopian tubes, section of, 705

Family, the, 195

Farthingale, 147, 148

Fashion, 133

theory of, 152-154

Fat, deposit of, in men and women respectively, 62

Father-right. See Patriarchy

Feeling-tones, sexual, 91

Fellatio, 621, 624, 626

Festivals, religio-erotic, 107 et seq.

phallic, 135

sexual, 190-191

Fetichism, racial, 614-615

sexual, 541, 609-629

Fetters, sadistic use of, 573, 576

Figuræ Veneris, 51

Finery, love of, 334

Flagellantism. See Flagellomania

Flagellation. See Flagellomania

Flagellomania, 568-574

Flavouring agents, 626

Flirt, 568. See also Coquetry

Fluor albus, 146, 425

Foot fetichism, 622

Foot-wooers, 629

Formative impulse, 92

Fornication with animals. See Bestiality

Fornication with corpses. See Necrophilia

Fornicatory dolls, 648-649. See also Godemichés

Free love, 198, 233-278, 316. See also Free marriage

distinguished from wild love, 198, 221, 236-238

this distinction recognized by Shelley, 240

already sanctioned by States which permit repeated divorces by the same person, 218, 219

in the Isle of Portland, 237, 238

from the communistic standpoint, 249, 250

and collectivism, 251

compatible with the preservation of private property, 251

and the economic independence of women, 251 et seq.

Free marriage, 264-266, 361. See also Free love

“Free wife,” the, 242

Freedom, sexual, 301

sense of, in erotic relationships, 182

relations to erotic æstheticism, 182

loss of. See Loss of freedom

Freedom to love, 284, 766

the cause of constancy, and vice versa, 220, 221

Frenzy, tropical, 566-567

Friendship between men, 548

Frigidity, sexual, 86, 432-436, 470

Frotteurs, 652

Function impulse, 92, 180

Fur, sexually stimulating influence of, 150

“Venus im Pelz” (Venus in a fur-coat), 150

Fusion-love, 18

Future of human love, the, 763-766

G

Gait of effeminate urnings, 499-500

Gallantry, 163-165

“Gamahucheurs,” 467

Garbage literature, 737

Gastric disorder in sexual neurasthenia, 451

Geese, fornicatory acts with, 644

General paralysis of the insane. See Dementia, paralytic

Genital fetichism, 620-621

Genital organs. See also Reproductive organs

variations in female, 23

nerve-terminal apparatus of, 144

concealment of, 137-138

malformation of, as a cause of impotence, 441-442

malformation of, as a cause of perversions, 477

odour of, plays a subordinate part in the human sexual life, 624

Genius, the erotic, 289

Germany, young. See Young Germany

Gerontophilia, 508, 627

Girl-stabbers, 575

Girls, traffic in, 336-338

Glans penis, hyperæsthesia of, 448

Goats, fornicatory acts with, 644

Godemichés, 412

Gonorrhœa, 364-367

Greek love of boys, 547

Grisette, 298

Group-marriage, 193-195

Guide-books for the world of pleasure, 290 et seq.

Guides, brothel, 727

Gumma, 361

Gynecocracy, 59

Gymnastics, 689-690

H

Habit. See Habituation

Habituation in love:

its dangers, 209

its significance in the genesis of sexual perversions, 456, 650, 662

Hair, falling out of, in consequence of syphilis, 360

luxuriant growth in homosexual men, 499

fetichism, 614-620

human, gradual loss of, 23, 24

Hair-stealers. See Plait-cutters

Half-clothing (retroussé), 139 et seq.

“Half-world,” the, 345-348

its relations to fashion (the mode), 153

its utilization of hair-fetichism, by dyeing the hair, 615

Hand fetichism, 622

Handbills, 727

Handbooks for the world of pleasure, 290 et seq.

Handkerchief fetichism, 629

Hanging, voluptuous excitement in connexion with, 582

“Happiness in marriage,” 700

Hard chancre, 356, 359

Hashish intoxication, 654

Hawkers’ literature, 737

Head, sexual differences in, 62, 63

Health, certificate of, before marriage, 256

“Health and Disease in relation to Marriage and the Married State” (Senator Kaminer’s work referred to), 215

Hearing in relation to the vita sexualis, 35, 36

Heel fetichism, 629

Hellenic love of boys, 547

Hemispheres, testicular, 92

Henpecked husband, 567

Hereditary enfranchisement, 462, 463, 711-712

Hermaphrodite fetichism, 621-622

Hermaphroditism, 551-554

vestiges of, in normal human beings, 11, 12, 39, 40

primeval history of, 59

philosophical idea of, 70

Herpes progenitalis, 705

Hetairism, 346

Heterogamy, 712

Heterosexual pædication, 653-654

Heterosexuality, 12, 14

Hierodules, 105

Hommes de voyage, 648-649

Homogamy, 712

Homosexual physicians, 492

Homosexuality, 487-535

homosexual tattooing, 136

venereal diseases in the homosexual, 368-369

meeting-places of homosexuals, 514 et seq.

balls and other entertainments among homosexuals, 517-519

need for the enlightenment of the general public regarding, 523, 524

riddle of, 487-535

theory of, 530-535

temporary, 547

in belletristic literature, 749

Homosexuals (male), effeminate, 498-501

virile, 501

Hormone, 414, 533. See also Sexual toxins

Horses, fornicatory acts with, 644

Household duties, simplification of, 82

Houses of accommodation, 344

Housing conditions, improper, in relation to prostitution, 335-336

Human sacrifices on the altar of monogamy, 244

Humanity, ideal type of, 56, 57

Humorous aspect of the sexual life, 732 et seq.

Husband, henpecked. See Henpecked husband

Hutchinson’s teeth, 365

Hygiene, reproductive, 711

sexual, 709-718

Hymen, significance and function of, 12

Hyperæsthesia, 429-432, 477

Hypnosis, 655-656

Hypochondria, sexual, 451

I

Ideal type of humanity, 56, 57

Idealization of the senses, 161-162

of parts of the body, 612

of bodily functions, 624, 625

Ideas, coercive, 451

Illegitimate children: their maintenance, 275, 276

Illusion, erotic, need for, 181

Imitation in the vita sexualis, 465

Immissio penis in anum. See Pædication

Immoral advertisements, 723-728

Immunity to disease, acquired racial, 356

Impotence, 441-451

functional, 443

nervous, 444, 447

paralytic, 447

senile, 448-449

temporary, 445-446

treatment of, 449-451

Impulse, formative, reproductive, sexual, etc. See Formative impulse, Reproductive impulse, Sexual impulse, etc.

Impulse, reproductive, 96

In-and-in breeding, 716

Incest, 639-640

Incontinence, bachelorhood and, 230

Independence of women, economic, 251

Individual, importance of love to, 3, 4, 28, 29, 96, 253, 254

Individualization of love, 95, 96, 124, 159-176

Indolent bubo, 359

Inefficiency, psychopathic, 664

Infantilism, psychosexual, 432

Infection, venereal, 298, 299, 353, 358, 359, 364, 374-383

Inflammatory bubo, 364

Inheritance of diseases, 713

of syphilis, 362

Injury, sadistic bodily, 574

Insanity. See Mental disorders

Insanity, moral, 665

Instinct, sexual. See Sexual impulse

Instrumentarium, auto-erotic, 411-413

Insurance of motherhood, 269, 271

Intellect, in man and woman respectively, 73-75

Intellectual activity and potency, 446

and sexual abstinence, 679-680

Intercourse, sexual. See Coitus

Intermediate stages, sexual, 499, 531

“Intimacy,” the, 296-302

a great focus of venereal infection, 299

Inunction for the prophylaxis of venereal infection, 380-381

as a perverse sexual manifestation, 579

Iodide of potassium in the treatment of syphilis, 387

Iritis, syphilitic, 361

Irritable hunger, sexual, 463

“Island custom,” the, of Portland, 237, 238

Itching, tickling, and sexual sensibility, 43, 44

J

Junores, 541-544

Jus primæ noctis, religious, 102

K

Kaften, 337

Kallipygian charms, 146, 147, 570, 622

Kin, near, marriage of, 716

Kiss, erotic significance of, 31, 32

the biting, 32, 33, 42, 50

origin of, 32, 33

Kleptomania, 577, 643

Knickerbockers, wearing of, in relation to masturbation, 426-427

Krankenkassen, 390-391

L

Lactation period, its artificial prolongation in order to prevent conception, 700-702

Lady’s friend, 704

Larynx, sexual differences in, 62

Late syphilis, 363

Lathering, 579

Law, Spencer’s. See Spencer’s law

Lawyers: their inclination to masochism, 580

Lending of wives, 194

Lesbian love. See Tribadism

Letter. See Condom; also Correspondence

Leucoderma syphiliticum, 360

Leucorrhœa (fluor albus), 146, 425

Leviratsehe, 196

Levitical law: marriage of deceased husband’s brother in accordance with, 196

Liaison. See “Intimacy”

Liberty. See Freedom

Libido-problem, 43-47

Lie of marriage, the, 203, 204

Lies, conventional. See Conventional lies

Life, sensual, the. See Sensual life

Lingam, the, 101

Lips, their relation to the genital organs, 33

Literature, belletristic, love in, 741-751

polite, love in, 741-751

scientific, of the sexual life, 753-761

Locomotor ataxy. See Tabes

Loss of freedom consequent on legal marriage, 217

Love, a part of the general science of mankind, ix

significance and aims of, 3, 91, 92

origin of, 27, 28

purposes of the individual and of the species in relation to, 3, 4

developmental possibilities of, 5, 6

elementary phenomena of, 10, 18

secondary phenomena of (brain and senses), 21-35, 37-51

appearance of spiritual elements in, 25, 27, 90 et seq.

significance of sensory stimuli in, 29-35

beauty and love, 35, 36

significance of personality in relation thereto, 82, 95, 173, 174, 182, 183, 766

individualization of, 95, 96, 124, 159-176

romantic, 162, 168-171

platonic, 162, 550

nature sense, the, and, 165-167

sentimental, 166, 167

Weltschmerz and, 167 et seq.

classical, 170-172

self-analysis in, 174-175

satanic-diabolic element in, 175, 289

artistic element in, 170, 175, 177-183

simultaneous for two or more persons (double love), 206-208

wild, 279-302, 476

Love, Bohemian, 175, 248

Love and capitalism, mutually antagonistic, 250

Love and marriage, 216, 217

“Love and marriage,” by Ellen Key, 253-267

Love as a disease (erotomania), 436-437

Love in belletristic literature, 741-751

Love, free, 176, 233-278

Love, free, in belletristic literature, 745, 746

Love of boys, 547-549

Love of finery, 334

Love regarded as inward spiritual development, 248

“Love’s coming of age,” 249

Love’s choice. See Sexual selection

Lues venerea. See Syphilis

Lust-murder, 574-575

Lynch law, sadism and, 563

M

Magazines. See Periodicals

Magical power of sex, 78

Maidservants, as recruits to the ranks of prostitution, 315, 316, 317, 333, 334

as seducers of children to sexual malpractices, 634

Maintenance of “illegitimate” children, 275, 276

Maisons de passe, 344

Malposition of the uterus, artificial, 705

Malthusian theory and practice, 693-708

Mammary glands, human:

reduction in their number, 22

atrophy of, 145-146, 715

condition in homosexual males, 500-501

sucking of, by men, 700-701

Mammonism, 213, 718

annihilates the sense of sexual responsibility, 718

influence of, in the sexual life. See Mercenary marriage

Mariolatry, 110, 111

Marriage, 185-231, 239 et seq., 272-273

average age at, 211-212

coercive. See Coercive marriage

disinclination to, 213

“morganatic,” 203

premature, 210 et seq.

the lie of, 203, 204

Marriage and disease, 215

Marriage bond, the, and its results. See Coercive marriage

Marriage by capture, 195

Marriage of conscience. See Free marriage

Marriage impulse, the, 213

Marriage of near kin, 716

Marriage prohibitions, 712-713

Marriage reform:

author’s views, 264 et seq., 301, 302

Edward Carpenter on, 252

Ellen Key’s proposals, 260-264

in Austria, 231

in France, 219-221

in various countries, 248, 249

Marriage reform unattainable without preliminary economic reforms, 250

Marriages of convenience, 204

Marriages, one hundred typical, 221-227

Married state, characteristic pictures of, 227-231

Masculine beauty, 182-183, 550

Masochism, 580-607

biological sources of, 51, 537 et seq.

religious, 103

of the days of chivalry, 164

relations to prostitution, 322-325

epistolary, 579

in art, 583

in women, 586-587

in belletristic literature, 750

Mass, the black, 579

Massage, 344, 569

Massage-institutes, 344-345

Masseuses, 582

Masterful erotic, the, 288

Masturbation (see also Onanism), 410-428

a cause of sexual anæsthesia, 86, 433

psychical, 419-420

distinguished from onanism (Onanismus), 422

a cause of sexual hyperæsthesia, 429

a cause of exhibitionism, 650

Masturbator’s heart, 424

Masturbators, anal, 546

Masturbatory insanity, 425

Matriarchy, 189, 196, 197-198

Means for the prevention of conception. See Preventive measures

Medical facts and problems from a theological point of view (pastoral medicine), 121

Member-problem, 42, 43

Memory, weakness of, in syphilis, 630

Men, emancipation of, 485

friendship between, 548

Men-women, 545

Menstrual equivalents in men, 499

Menstruation, 26, 27, 77, 425, 451, 667

Mental disorders:

as a sequel of masturbation, 424, 425

as a cause of sexual hyperæsthesia, 429

as a cause of sexual perversions, 475-476

as a cause of degeneration, 715

Mercenary marriages, 195, 212-213, 718

Mercury the specific for syphilis, 368-388

Metamorphosis sexualis paranoica, 544

Mica-operation, the, 696-697

Mind, diseases of. See Mental disorders

Minne, 163, 164

Misogyny, 117, 118, 165, 264, 479-486, 745

Mistresses of the devil, 119, 120

Mistress rule, 567, 568

Monandry, 201

Monasticism, 115 et seq.

Monism, erotic, 4, 254

Monogamic marriage, 196 et seq., 256

Monogamic society, George Meredith on, 202

Monogamy, human sacrifices on the altar of, 244

Montgolfière, 147, 148

Moonshine-reverie, 169

Moral insanity, 665

Moral restraint (as advocated by Malthus), 696

Moral statistics, 690

Morality, coercive marriage. See Coercive marriage morality

sexual, duplex. See Duplex sexual morality

Morality, offences against, 477, 659-670

“Morganatic” marriages, 203

Morning erection, 443

Morphinism and impotence, 654

Motherhood, insurance of, 269, 271

right to, 256, 257

Mother-right. See Matriarchy

Mothers, Association for the Protection of, 267-278

Movements and gait of effeminate urnings, 499-500

Muiracithin, 451

Mujerados, 426, 544-545

Murders by poison, 575

Muscular system, sexual differences in, 62

Muse latrinale, the, 625

Music in relation to the vita sexualis, 35, 36

Music-halls, 343-344

Mylitta-cult of the Babylonians, 103

Mysticism, sexual, 107 et seq., 123-124, 733

N

Nakedness: its relations to the sense of shame, 130 et seq., 154-157

Nationality in relation to sexual anomalies, 468-469

Nature-sense, the, in relation to love, 166

Nautch, the, 105, 106

Nautch-girls, 105, 106

Necrophilia, 646-647

symbolic, 647

Need for enlightenment, regarding homosexuality, 523-524

regarding the sexual life in general, 684-691

Need for sexual variety. See Variety, sexual

Negroes, 614

Neo-malthusianism, 693-708

Neurasthenia, masturbation and, 417

as a phenomenon of adaptation, 460

and homosexuality, 490, 492

of young wives, 451

sexual, 428-451

Neuro-chemical theory of sexual tension, 414

Neuro-mechanical theory of sexual tension, 414

Neuroses, sexual: their cause, 47

Newspapers. See Periodicals

Nocturnal life of great towns, 284, 292

Nose, the, in relation to genital system, 16

Nostrums, sexual, 722

Nubility, age of, 210

Nudity. See Nakedness

Nutritive impulse, the, and sexuality, 32, 33, 34

Nymphomania, 429

O

Object fetichism, 627 et seq.

Obscene tattooing, 135-136

words and phrases, 578

Obscenity, 794 et seq.

Obsession. See Ideas, coercive

Occlusive pessary, 703

Odour. See also Smell

axillary, 623

Offences against morality, 477, 659-670

Offences against property from sadistic motives, 576-577

Olfactory kiss. See Smell-kiss

Onanie and Onanismus, 422

Onanism. See also Masturbation

a cause of sexual anæsthesia, 86, 433

a cause of sexual exhibitionism,

psychical, 419-420

Onanismus, 422

Oöphorectomy, 705-706

Opium intoxication, 654

Opium-smoking and impotence, 654

Opportunity and its influence in the sexual misleading of children, 633 et seq.

Opportunity, lack of, for normal intercourse, leading to pseudo-homosexuality, 54

leading to bestiality, 644

Opportunity for bestial intercourse more frequent in the country than in towns, 644

Opportunity, first, and first contact, their avoidance the prime rule of sexual pedagogy, 690

Organs, genital. See Reproductive organs

reproductive. See Reproductive organs

Organs of sexual congress. See Reproductive organs

Orgasm, sexual, 49, 50

Ornament, pubic, 137, 138

Orthobiosis, 461

Outlook, the, 763-766

Ovariotomy. See Oöphorectomy

Overcrowded dwellings and prostitution, 335-336

P

Pæderasty, 509, 547

definition of, 641

Pædication, 477, 509

definition of, 509

heterosexual, 653-654

Pædophilia, 508, 633

Pagism, 582

Pain, relation of, to the voluptuous sensation, 43-44, 415, 557-560. See also Algolagnia

relief of, by masturbation, 415-416

Palæolithic man: his erotic life, 25, 26, 134

Pall Mall Gazette scandals, 635

Paralytic dementia. See Dementia, paralytic

Parasyphilitic diseases, 361

Partial disclosure (retroussé), 139 et seq.

Pastoral medicine, 121

Patriarchy, 194, 196

Pedagogy, sexual. See Education, sexual

Pederastia. See Pæderasty

Pelvis, sexual differences in, 60

Penal laws against homosexual intercourse, 520-525

Penis:

free mobility of this organ in the genus homo, 42

artificial, 101-102, 412-413

malformations of, 441, 442

abnormal smallness of, 442

fetichism, 620-621

Penis-bone, 42

“Pensionate,” 344

Perfumes, erotic, 17

Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, and reviews) devoted to the study of the sexual life, 760-761

Periodicity, sexual, 26, 27, 55, 56

Perversions, sexual:

masturbation as a cause of, 425-426

in relation to impotence, 445

acquirement and artificial production of, 465

congenital, 466

racial diffusion of, 466-468

due to disease, 475-477

the riddle of homosexuality, 487-535

pseudo-homosexuality, 537-554

algolagnia (sadism and masochism), 555-607

sexual fetichism, 609-629

fornication with children, incest, necrophilia, bestiality, exhibitionism, etc., 631-654

treatment of, 655-657

in belletristic literature, 748-750

Perversity, sexual, characterization of modern, 474-475

Pessary, occlusive, 703

Pessimism in love, 176

pleasurable, 561

Phallus, the, cult of (Phallus fetichism), 101, 620-621. See also Penis, artificial

Philosophy, sexual. See Sexual philosophy

Phimosis, 477

Photographs, obscene, 731

Physicians, homosexual, 492

Physiological accompaniments. See Accompaniments, physiological

Pictures of the married state, characteristic, 227-231

Pigtail-cutters. See Plait-cutters

Plait-cutters, 616-619

Platonism, 162

Poietic, definition of, 93

Poisoning, 575

Polite literature, love in, 741-751

Pollutions, the term defined, 437. See also Seminal emissions

Polyandry, 193, 194

Polyclinics for prostitutes, 313, 404

for venereal patients in general, 391

Polygamy, 196, 244, 245, 716

facultative, 196

Polygyny, 196, 254-255. See also Polygamy

Popular culture, 739

Population, problem of, 695 et seq.

Pornography, 312, 729-739

“Portland custom,” 237, 238

Posture, upright, in relation to the sexual life, 34, 51

Postures during coitus (figuræ Veneris), 51

Powders lethal to the spermatozoa, 704, 705

Pox. See Syphilis

Pregnancy, prevention of. See Preventive measures

Prelibido, 46

Premature marriage. See Marriage

Prematurity, sexual, 285, 417-418, 637-638, 668

Pre-Raphaelites, English:

their preference for the infantile asexual physique, 182

their ideas on love and marriage, 240

Preventive measures (means for the prevention of pregnancy), 696-706

Priapism, 429-430, 447

Priests: their sexual prescriptive rights, 102 et seq.

Primary sexual phenomena, 18

Primitive man. See Palæolithic man

Prisons, homosexual acts in, 546

Problem of population, 695 et seq.

Procreation, spiritual, 252

Procurement, 336

Prohibition of marriage, reasons for, 712-713

Promiscuity, sexual, 188-197, 257

Promiscuity, sexual, distinction of free love from, 198, 221, 236-238, 240

Property, offences against, from sadistic motives, 576-577

Prophylaxis, treatment, and suppression of venereal diseases, 371-406

Prophylaxis of venereal infection, personal, 375-383

Prostatorrhœa, 425, 439

Prostitute-quarters, 402

Prostitutes, congenital, 318, 325-326. See also “Half-world”

humanization and ennoblement of, 404-406

international, 348

“late,” 294

mental and physical characters of, 325-329

in belletristic literature, 747-748

pseudo-homosexuality of, 546-547

Prostitution, 201-202, 237, 303-348, 395-402

causes of, 314-315, 318, 322, 329-339, 434-435

crime and, 400-401

definition of, 319-321

growing hostility to, 254, 255

history and literature of, 307-319

“Kasernierung” of (prostitute-quarters), 402

male, 313-314, 518-519

masochistic, 582-583

regulation of, 309, 318, 319

religious, 100-106, 321

public, 339 et seq.

secret, 317, 340 et seq.

supply and demand, 321 et seq.

Protection of mothers, association for, 267-278

“Protectrices,” 529

Prudery, 155-157

Pseudo-Don Juan, 290

Pseudo-hermaphroditism, 552-554

Pseudo-homosexuality, 426, 489, 496, 537-554

Psoriasis syphilitica, 360

Psychical elements in love, Chapters VI., VII., and VIII., pp. 94-176

Psychical onanism, 419-420

Psychopathia sexualis, 489 et seq. See also Perversions and Perversities

Psychopathic inefficiency, 664

Psycho-therapeutics, 427-428, 450, 655-657

Puberty, 414, 497, 667

Pubic ornament. See Ornament, pubic

Public-houses with women attendants (“Animierkneipen”), 341-342

Public relationships of the sexual life, 719-728

Punishment-rooms, 581-582

Purchase, marriage by, 195

Pygmalionism, 648

Pyromania, 577

Q

Quackery, sexual, 721-722, 727

Queue. See Plait

R

Race: its significance in relation to sexual anomalies, 468, 469

Racial fetichism, 614-615

Rape (= Marriage by capture), 195

(= Violation), 707

Rational dress. See Reformed dress

Red, the colour, in relation to sexuality, 51

to “see red,” 51

Red-hair fetichism, 615, 622, 623

Reflective love, 174, 446, 750

Reform, economic, prerequisite to marriage reform, 250

Reform of marriage. See Marriage reform

Reform of our amatory life, 179

Reform, Sexual, Association for, 273

Reformed dress, 154

Regeneration, 462, 463, 711-712. See also Enfranchisement, hereditary

“Regiment of Women,” 59

Regulated prostitution, abolition of, 318, 398, 399, 400, 401-403

Regulation of prostitution, 309, 318, 397-401

Relationships, sexual, need for variety in, 133, 192, 205, 463 et seq.

Religion and sexuality, 87-124

Religious imagination, the, straying in sexual by-paths, 120

Remarriage subsequent to divorce, 242

Remedies, secret, 722

Renifleurs, 467, 625

Reproduction, sexual. See Sexual reproduction

Reproductive aperture, 41, 42

Reproductive cells:

conjugation of, 9, 10

differences in respect of mode of energy in two sexes, 71, 72

representative of respective spiritual natures of man and woman, 72

Reproductive hygiene, 711

Reproductive impulse, 96

Reproductive organs:

aperture-problem, 41, 42

member-problem, 42, 43

libido-problem, 43-47

origin and purpose, 39-41

differentiation, 39, 40

Responsibility, conjugal, 220

sense of, in free unions, 239

sexual, 220, 239, 274, 765

diminished (in borderland states of mental disorder), 664, 666-668

annihilated by mammonism, 718

Retifism (shoe fetichism), 627 et seq.

Retrogressive development of sexual characters, 22-25

Retroussé, 139 et seq.

Revaluation Society (“Umwertungsgesellschaft”—for the reform of amatory life) of the U.S.A., 272 et seq.

Reviews. See Periodicals

Revolutionary movements, part played by algolagnia in connexion therewith, 563, 587-607

Rhythmotropism, 179

Riddle of homosexuality, the, 487-535

Right to motherhood, 256, 257, 275

Rights, conjugal. See Conjugal rights

“Rings, stimulating,” 467, 704

Romantic-individual love, 162

Romantic love, 168-171

Roseola syphilitica, 360

“Rummel,” 344

S

Sacrifice, sexual, 103

Sacrifices, human, on the altar of monogamy, 244

Saddle-nose, syphilitic, 361

Sadism, 568-580

biological sources of, 50, 51, 537 et seq.

in belletristic literature, 750

religious, 103, 579-580

symbolic, 577-580

verbal, 51, 578

Sadistic bodily injury, 574-576

bestiality, 644-645

Saloons, dancing. See Dancing saloons

Sapphism, 529

Satanism, 175, 289, 563, 579, 733

Satyriasis, 429

Scandals, Pall Mall Gazette, 635

sexual, 721, 728

Scents, erotic, 17

Schoolmaster’s sadism, 571-573

Scientific literature of the sexual life, the, 753-761

Secondary sexual characters, 18, 59 et seq.

Secondary sexual phenomena, 18

Secret diseases, 722

Secret remedies, 722

Section of the Fallopian tubes, 705

Sects, sexual religious, 107-111, 114, 114-115

Security sponges, 704

Seducer types, 286-290

Seduction, 264, 281-302, 416

definition of the term, 281

“Seeing red,” 51

Selection, natural. See Natural selection

sexual. See Sexual selection

Self-abuse. See Masturbation and also Onanism

Self-control, sexual, 252, 675-677

Seminal emissions, 437-441

Sensations, sexual differences in, 73

Sense of shame, sexual, 125-157, 650

Sense, sexual. See Sexual sense

Sensibility, sexual, in woman, 83-86

Sensory stimuli, erotic, 29-36

Sensual life, the, 281-286, 290-297

Sensuality, spiritualized, 253

Sentimentality, 166

Sex: its significance in the etiology of psychopathia sexualis, 470-471

third, the, 13

fourth, the, 481

Sexual abstinence. See Abstinence, sexual

Sexual act. See Coitus

Sexual advertisements, 723-728

Sexual anæsthesia. See Anæsthesia, sexual

Sexual anomalies. See Perversions, and also Perversity

Sexual antipathy. See Antipathy of the sexes

Sexual aperture. See Reproductive aperture

Sexual biology, 759

Sexual cells, 43

Sexual characters, secondary. See Secondary sexual characters

Sexual chemistry, literature of, 121 et seq.

Sexual clubs, secret, 653

Sexual desire, 46

Sexual day-dreams, 420

Sexual differentiation. See Differentiation, sexual (and see also under separate organs)

Sexual education, 691-692

Sexual enlightenment, need for general, 684-691

Sexual equivalents. See Equivalents, sexual

Sexual fetichism, 541, 609-629

Sexual freedom, 301

Sexual gratification, 46

Sexual hygiene, 709-718

Sexual hyperæsthesia, 429

Sexual impulse, 45, 46

its increase by natural selection, 14

its relations to civilization, 14, 15

periodicity of, 26

components of, 46

Sexual intercourse. See Coitus

Sexual intermediate stages, 499, 531

Sexual irritable hunger, 463

Sexual life, the, in its public relationships, 719-728

Sexual links, 499, 531

Sexual literature:

belletristic, 741-751

pornographic, 729-739

scientific, 753-761

Sexual morality, duplex. See Duplex sexual morality

Sexual mysticism. See Mysticism, sexual

Sexual nostrums, 722

Sexual organs. See Reproductive organs

Sexual orgasm. See Orgasm, sexual

Sexual perversions. See Perversions, sexual

Sexual philosophy, 94, 95

Sexual prematurity, 285, 417-418, 637-638, 668

Sexual promiscuity. See Promiscuity, sexual; also Wild love, and Extra-conjugal sexual intercourse

Sexual quackery. See Quackery, sexual

Sexual Reform, Association for, 273

Sexual reproduction, 10, 11

Sexual responsibility, 274

Sexual scandals, 721-728

Sexual science, literature of, 753-761

Sexual selection, 35-36, 712

Sexual sense, 43

Sexual sense of shame, 125-157, 650

Sexual sensibility in woman, 83-86

Sexual sphere. See Sphere, sexual

Sexual tension. See Tension, sexual; and also Prelibido

Sexual toxins, 47, 414, 532-533

Sexual vampirism. See Vampirism

Sexual variety. See Variety, sexual

Sexual visions, 115

Sexuality and religion, 87-124

Shame, sense of, sexual, 125-157, 650

Shoe fetichism, 627-629

Shunammitism, 633

Sight in relation to the vita sexualis, 34, 35

Silver salts in the prophylaxis of gonorrhoea, 379-380

Simplification of household tastes, 82

Simultaneous love for two or more persons, 206

Skatological fetichism, 625

Skatology in folklore, 625

Skin, the, its relations to sexuality, 30, 31, 43, 44, 45

Skull, sexual difference in, 63

Slave of love, the, 163

Slave-trade, the white, 336-338

Slavery, sexual (masochistic), 163, 568, 582-585

Smell, atrophy of organs of, 22

connexion between the nose and the genital organs, 16

erotic significance of smell declines with advancing civilization, 17

fetichism, 622-626

of the body at large, 623, 624

of the genital organs, 624

of fur, 150

odoriferous glands, sexual, 16

sexual odours, distinctive, 16

sexual perfumes, 17, 626

relation of hairy covering to sense of, 24, 615, 622-623

sense of, the psychical elementary phenomenon of love, 15

Smell-kiss, the, 33

Social intercourse, the erotic element in, 181

Socialism and free love, 249-251

Society for the Suppression of Venereal Diseases, German, 374

“Sodomie”: German use of this term defined and explained, 640, 641

Sodomy. See Pæderasty, Pædication, and Pædophilia

definition of the term, 641

Soft chancre, 356, 364

Soldiers, homosexual, 501

public-houses for uranian soldiers, 518

Sore throat, syphilitic, 360

Soutenage, 400

Spasm, vaginal. See Vaginismus

Spaying, 706

Speech: its relations to love, 90

Spencer’s law, 55, 56, 64

Spermatorrhœa, 425, 439

Spermatozoa, 9, 10, 71, 72, 554, 705

Sphere, sexual, in women, 84

Spirit, the way of, in love, Chapters VI., VII., and VIII., pp. 94-176

Spiritual development, inward, love regarded as, 248

Spiritual procreation, 252

Spiritualized sensuality, 253

Spirochaete pallida, 357

Sponges, security, 704

Stages, sexual, intermediate, 499, 531

“Stallions,” 313

Statues, fornicatory acts with, 647-649

Stature, sexual differences in, 61

Stays. See Corset

Stercoraires platoniques, 653

Sterility, in women, 146, 365

in men, 365, 442

artificial, 705 et seq. See also Preventive measures

facultative, 699

Stigmata of degeneration, 455, 664-665

“Stimulating rings” and similar apparatus, 467, 704

Stimuli, sensory. See Sensory stimuli

Street-arabs, Parisian, effeminate, 601

Street-prostitution, 339

Stroke, apoplectic, in syphilis, 361

Succubi, 119, 120

Suggestibility, comparative, of men and women, 74

Suggestion: its significance in the vita sexualis, 416, 465, 655-656

Suicide, 727

Sulphur-baths in the “after-treatment” of syphilis, 387-388

Superstition, sexual, 103, 633, 643, 650

Supply of prostitutes in large towns in excess of the demand, 321 et seq.

Sweets, fondness for, in relation to sexuality, 34

Swindlers, 728

Synæsthetic stimuli, 464

Synthetic human being, 71

Syphilis, as a cause of sexual perversions, 476

congenital, 362

hereditaria tarda, 363

in apes, 357

in belletristic literature, 748

innocentium, 353

late, 363

origin of, 351-356

protozoal cause of, 357

treatment, 383-388

Syphilitic psoriasis, 360

T

Tabes as a sequel of syphilis, 361, 476

Talent, the breeding of, 716-717

Taste in relation to the vita sexualis, 33, 34

Tattooing, from erotic motives, 133-137

forensic significance of, 665, 666

Teeth, the, in congenital syphilis, 365

Temple prostitution, 104, 105

Temporary marriage, 241, 242

Tension, sexual, 46, 48, 414, 679. See also Prelibido

Tension, sexual, relief of, 47

Testicles, in relation to the brain, 92

Tetragamy, Schopenhauer’s essay on, 246-248

Theatres, variety, 343-344

“Theologiens mammillaires,” 122

“Third sex.” See Sex, third, the

Throat, sore. See Sore throat

Tickling and sexual sensibility, 43, 44, 45

Tight-lacing, results of, 157, 158

“Tingel-tangel,” 343-344

Tobacco: its use an occasional cause of impotence, 444

Tom-cat, fornicatory act with, 645

Torture chambers, 581-582

Totem, 193, 194

Touch. See also Contact, sexual importance of, 30-33, 45

Town-life in relation to prostitution, 321

Toxins, sexual, 47, 414, 532-533

Trade in articles of immoral use, 722

Trade, the white slave, 336-338

Traders in girls, 337

Traffic in girls, 336-338

Tress-cutters. See Plait-cutters

Trials, scandalous, 728

Tribadism, 489, 524-530

definition of, 641

Tropical clothing, 139

Tropical frenzy, 566-567

Trousers, wearing of, in relation to masturbation, 426-427

Tuberculosis: its relation to the sexual life, 476

Type, ideal, of humanity, 56, 57

Typical marriages, one hundred, 221-227

U

Ugliness, sexual passion and, 183

Uncleanliness, ceremonial, 130

Underclothing, fetichism, 629

Unio mystica, 109-110

Union, free. See Free love and Free marriage

Uranism, 489

Urminde, 525

Urning, 498

Urnings’ balls, 518 et seq.

Urolagnia, 583, 625-626

Urinary organs: their relation to the reproductive organs, 41, 42

V

Vaginal douching, 704

Vaginal muscles, 433

Vaginal spasm. See Vaginismus

Vaginismus, 433, 434

Vampirism, 575, 640

Vaporization, 705

Variability, sexual, 56, 64, 77

Variety, sexual, need for, 133, 192, 205, 463 et seq.

Variety theatres, 343-344

Venereal diseases, 306-307, 349-370

prophylaxis of, 371-383

treatment of, 383-392

statistics of, 392-396

Venereal ulcer, 356, 364

“Venus apparatus,” the, 705

“Venus im Pelz,” 150

Venus statuaria, 647-648

Vera-enthusiasm, 673

Verbal sadism. See Sadism, verbal

Vertugale, 147, 148

Vestige of primitive civilization, mercenary marriage a, 212

Violation, 707

Virginity, disesteem for, in primitive races, 104, 191

Virile urnings, 501

Visions, sexual, 115

Vitalizing influence of eroticism, 182

Vitriol-throwing, 575

Vocabularia erotica, 578

Voice, the: its sexual significance, 35-36

of urnings, 500

Voice fetichism, 627

Voluptuousness, 43-45

Voyeurs, 652-653

Voyeuses, 652-653

W

Washes, antiseptic, 381

Way of the spirit in love, Chapters VI., VII., and VIII., pp. 94-176

Weak-mindedness of women, physiological, 40

Weight of body. See Body-weight

Weltschmerz, erotic, the different varieties of, 167-168, 561

Whipping of children, dangers of, 570

Whites, the. See Fluor albus

White slave trade, the, 336-338

“Wife, the free,” 242

Wife-lending and wife-exchange, 194

Wig-collectors, 616

Wild love, 281-302

distinguished from free love, 198, 221, 236-238, 281

Will, education of the, 655-657, 680, 689-691

diseases of the, 423, 655

Witchcraft, sexual element in belief therein, 118-121, 483

Woman, hair of, 24

demeanour during coitus, 49, 50

primitive character and comparative simplicity of feminine nature, 56

greater suggestibility of, 74

emotivity of, 75, 76

magical and mysterious nature of, 78, 119

sexual sensibility in, 83-86

tattooing of, 136-137

change of type with progressive civilization, 157 et seq.

types of beauty, modern, 181-183

masturbation in, 418

nymphomania in, 429-432

frigidity in, 433-435

pollutions in, 439-440

sexual neurasthenia in, 451

flagellantism in, 573

masochism in, 586

poisoning by, 575

bestiality in, 645

power of resistance to degeneration, 717

“Woman and Socialism,” 251

Woman’s question, the, 58, 59, 79 et seq., 529, 747

Women, economic independence of, 251

diseases of, 367

Women-men, 545

Y

Yohimbin, 450

Young Germany, the love-problems of, 172-175

Z

Zoophilia, 640-643. See also Bestiality

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