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14325[ 35] Tertullian addressed women in these words:Do you not know that you are each an Eve?
14325But why and how does this nuclear material determine sex?
14325How may such biological material be safely used?
14325Hubert and Mauss of L''Année Sociologique?
14325In other words, what is the nature of the process of differentiation into male and female which it sets in motion?
14325Marett in his essay"Is Taboo a Negative Magic?
14325PART I THE NEW BIOLOGY AND THE SEX PROBLEM IN SOCIETY BY M. M. KNIGHT, PH.D. CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM DEFINED What is sex?
14325THE PROBLEM DEFINED What is sex?
14325What are the outstandingly significant sex differences which application of the above criterion leaves?
14325What shall we say of a sterile individual, which produces neither?
14325What, then, do we mean by"male"and"female"in man?
14325Why does not the female become a true, functional male?
13613Alice, although she was frightened out of her wits, managed to stammer:''He could n''t see me-- you could n''t see me, could you?''
13613Blacker is her hair than the darkness of night, blacker than the berries of the blackberry bush(?).
13613But I had managed to collect my senses a bit and although still under that maternal eye I asked,--at last turning slowly around to Alice:''See?
13613Do you know what keeps me straight?
13613Harder are her teeth(?)
13613How can love( as I use the expression-- i.e., sexual passion) continue?
13613I feigned surprise and asked''What is the matter?''
13613See what?''
13613These being the objective manifestations, what manifestations are to be noted on the subjective side?
13613Was I mad, or what?
13613What could I do?
13613What do you mean?
13613What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?
13613Why are musical tones in a certain order and rhythm pleasurable?
13613With a feeling, that I can only describe by calling it an intuition, I moved nearer him, and asked:''Do you ever play with yourself?''
13722How is it possible to put a stop to this terrible social evil? 13722 And has He implanted in us as the strongest of our instincts that which can not elevate and must debase? 13722 But in the meantime what ought the schoolmaster to do? 13722 Did He who graced with His presence the marriage at Cana in Galilee really countenance a ceremony which was a prelude to sin? 13722 Does experience really warrant any such conclusion? 13722 How are children to develop a holy reverence for their own bodies unless they know of their wonderful destiny? 13722 How is it possible to_ elevate women_ while the demand for them for base purposes is so great? 13722 Is He whom we address daily asOur Father"willing to be described by a name with which impurity is of necessity connected?
13722Is it any wonder if it fails to see things in their true relations?
13722On what great moral question dare we leave the young to find their own way absolutely without guidance?
13722The question next arises: should it be the mother or the father who gives this instruction?
13722These last would argue-- why put the facts of reproduction on a different footing from those of digestion and respiration?
13722What results may we reasonably expect from adequate and timely instruction?
13722When the question is put,"How often do you have gymnastics at your school?"
13722Who would not rather that his daughter were killed in her innocence than that she should be doomed to such a fate?
13722Why should the child think it"dirty"to fondle and excite his private parts or to talk about them with his boy friends?
13722who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
47501):"What cursed foot wanders this way to- night To cross my obsequies, and true lovers rite?"
47501Assuming now that the two are in the closest mental and spiritual, as well as sensory harmony: in what position should the act be consummated?
47501But can his local doctor or his friends tell him more than the chief European authorities on this subject?
47501But how fare women in this event?
47501Has it been carried so far that it now tends to defeat its purpose of safeguarding public morals?
47501He asks himself in despair: What is a man to do?
47501He may ask himself: Do not religious and many kinds of moral teachers preach restraint to the man?
47501How long does it last?
47501However willing they may be to go further, the great question for the man is: Where?
47501If to the sincere and friendly question:"What is most difficult in married life for the man?"
47501Is it not of the utmost importance that these earliest impressions should be of the finest nature?
47501Of what does this loss consist?
47501The Broken Joy What shall be done to quiet the heart- cry of the world?
47501The question now is, Has this reticence been carried too far?
47501They ask: Is not instinct enough?
47501What is the fate of the average man who marries, happily and hopefully, a girl well suited to him?
47501What must be taking place in the female system as a result of the completed sex act?
47501What,"Chrysotom asks,"is the reason?
47501Why should this comparatively small but nauseating experience accompany what should be among the most rapturously beautiful months of a woman''s life?
47501Why?
13614So I''ve caught you, have I?
13614Why do n''t you open the door, A.? 13614 ( J.R. Beck,How do the Spermatozoa Enter the Uterus?"
13614After each exhibition he would ask himself anxiously:"Did they see me?
13614Another patient of Garnier''s, who haunted churches for this purpose, made this very significant statement:"Why do I like going to churches?
13614Another time, when A. was giving way to_ her_ temper, and one would have thought all love was dead, I said"Do n''t you love me then?"
13614Are you a pariah of pariahs, or is there, perhaps, another soul with similar longings living near you?
13614Are you alone in the earth with your morbid desires?
13614But could I imagine that the spectacle of so disgusting a function would have any other effect than to give me a humble opinion of human nature?"
13614Has n''t that fellow gone?"
13614How could I let her go by herself?
13614In great perplexity I asked the little girl:"Has it been cut off?"
13614Is There an Erotic Temperament?
13614Is there an erotic temperament outwardly and visibly displayed?
13614Mrs. T. said:"You give him up, do you?"
13614Of recent years considerable importance has been attached by some gynecologists( e.g., R.T. Morris,"Is Evolution Trying to Do Away With the Clitoris?"
13614On her manner of life-- eating, drinking, sleeping, and thinking-- what greatness may not hang?
13614On my telling her whom I was seeking she stopped sewing and looked at me quickly:"Oh, are you her husband?
13614The next minute another thought followed:"Why not try?"
13614Then I said:"Who are you married to?"
13614There is a drawing by Bronzino in the Louvre of a woman''s head gazing tenderly down at some invisible object; is it her child or her lover?
13614To M. de Bréot, whom he shortly after encounters, he exclaims, abashed at his own actions:"Why did I not flee?
13614Walking the country roads, I asked myself:"If it_ is_ true, if she has been unfaithful, will you forgive her and help her to arrive at her best?"
13614What are they thinking?
13614What do they say to each other about me?
13614What is more absurd, for instance, than to say that an entire_ penetrates_ the mare?
13614What, if any, are the indications which the body generally may furnish as to the individual''s aptitude and vigor for the orgasm of detumescence?
13614Who can say, I thought, what changes for the better may come to me if I live on a strictly scientific and natural diet?
13614Who have you got there?
13614Who will cure me?"
13614Why am I made thus?
13612''Did Mr.----''s insistence on your changing give you any pleasure?'' 13612 ''Why?''
13612Does this explain what I mean? 13612 (Wird bei jungen Unverheiratheten zur Zeit der Menstruation stärkere sexuelle Erregheit beobaehtet?"
13612But do you know one man who will take the same trouble?
13612But why should a child of 6 do such things unless it were a natural instinct in him?
13612Do I at all persuade you that my pleasure was a reflection of hers?
13612Euripides emphasized the importance of women;"The Euripidean woman who''falls in love''thinks first of all:''How can I seduce the man I love?"''
13612FOOTNOTES:[ 230]"A practical question arising out of the foregoing is whether such semen should be committed to the vagina?
13612Hence, may we not conclude that the progress toward development is not so abrupt as has been generally supposed?...
13612Is it not much short of drinking an health naked on a signpost?
13612May it not be as theologically defended as the husband''s correction of his wife?"
13612Now, how do marriage and divorce affect the sexual liability to suicide?
13612Suppose it were( as it is not) true, may not some eminent congregational brother be found guilty of the same act?
13612The question naturally arises: By what process does pain or its mental representation thus act as a sexual stimulant?
13612This leads to the question whether the critical sensation specially involves the sympathetic nervous system?
13612Thus in the Leipzig district when a girl is asked"How did you fall?"
13612What are the special characters of the sexual impulse in women?
13612What is the cause of the connection between sexual emotion and whipping?
13612What would be the effect on a man of a sudden check at the supreme moment of sexual pleasure?
13612When Moârbeda was once asked:"In what part of a woman''s body does her mind reside?"
13612Why is it that love inflicts, and even seeks to inflict, pain?
13612Why is it that love suffers pain, and even seeks to suffer it?
13612Why is this, unless he would like it if a woman, and confuses in his mind the two personalities?
13610But in how many cases,asks Breuer,"is a cat thus reckoned as a completely sufficient_ causa efficiens_?"
13610Do you not think,a correspondent writes,"that the sexual blush, at least, really represents a vaso- relaxor effect quite the same as erection?
13610What of those,he asks,"who frequent baths, who prostitute to eyes that are curious to lust, bodies that are dedicated to chastity and modesty?
13610What physiological difference,he asks,"is there between this voluptuous sensation and that enjoyed by the disciple of the Brotherhood of New Life?
13610), and devotes a short chapter to the question,"Is the Menstrual Rhythm peculiar to the Female Sex?"
13610Again, walking beside a young woman, she said,''Shall I take your arm?''
13610Also, why take fleas and other insects to bed with one?
13610Another medical man wrote that if so, what would happen to the patients of menstruating lady doctors?
13610But is not a doctor free to do everything for the good of the patients intrusted to him by Providence?
13610But why this delay, if time is precious, and it enters as an important factor in the case?
13610Can not a doctor thus devote himself?
13610Can one be surprised at the force of a habit, the slightest infractions of which are punished with such atrocious shame?
13610Do they not solicit and invite the desires of those present to their own corruption and wrong?
13610Do they not themselves afford enticement to vice?
13610Even at the present day, it is said that in France, a young peasant girl will exclaim, if asked whether she wears drawers:"I wear drawers, Madame?
13610Even thus defined, how can modesty avoid being always awake and restless?
13610FOOTNOTES:[ 64] Melinaud("Pourquoi Rougit- on?"
13610Had Solon similarly recorded a series of observations upon himself?
13610He also knew a young man with dementia prà ¦ cox?
13610How could I avoid it?
13610How often, in this climate, should a man have sexual connection with his wife in order to maintain himself in perfect physiological equilibrium?
13610Is it wrong to eat fruit, which I like?
13610Is there a monthly period in man as well as in woman?
13610May not the ecbolic period in men be compared to the menstrual period in women, and be an example of the greater katabolic activity of men?
13610Ought I to eat grass, which I do n''t like?
13610These I take to be the most accomplished rules of address to a mistress; and where are these performed with more dexterity than by the_ saints_?
13610They who disgracefully behold naked men, and are seen naked by men?
13610They would have so many problems to puzzle over: How often ought I to eat?
13610What is a venial sin against nature, what a mortal sin against nature?
13610What ought I to eat?
13610What was the cause of this?
13610What will this primitive Apollo do next?
13610What woman could repeat, without risk, the tranquil action of Phryne?
13610[ 94] What is menstruation?
13611And if this inclination were not natural,he makes Sarmiento say,"would the impression of it be received in childhood?...
13611He is always driving at me about that: is that what Calamus means?--because of me or in spite of me, is that what it means? 13611 How do you know I''m not?"
13611Said W:''Well, what do you think of that? 13611 ''Pray, what are these girls going to do?'' 13611 ''The true measure of love,''wrote a uranian schoolmaster to me once,''is self- sacrifice''; not''What will you give?'' 13611 ''Well, suppose he does? 13611 And what, Jekels asks, is the aim of this mental arrangement? 13611 Do you think that could be answered?'' 13611 H., with a pistol, strode forward and in his excitement said:''You exposed me, did you?'' 13611 How long are the western moralists to maim and brand and persecute where they do not understand?
13611I suppose you might say-- why do n''t you shut him up by answering him?
13611If not, whose fault was it?
13611Is it a diseased condition which qualifies its subject for the lunatic asylum?
13611Is it, as many would have us believe, an abominably acquired vice, to be stamped out by the prison?
13611Is the wide prevalence of normal sexuality due to the fact that so many little boys have had their ears boxed for taking naughty liberties with women?
13611Is this the outcome of the woman in the uranian temperament?
13611Might I not be influenced to shun the only persons who inspire unselfish feeling?
13611Not''What will you do for him?''
13611The analysis of these cases leads directly up to a question of the first importance: What is sexual inversion?
13611The question is sometimes asked: What family is free from neuropathic taint?
13611There is no logical answer to that I suppose: but I may ask in my turn:''What right has he to ask questions anyway?''"
13611They may have thought that the original trio were regarded rather in the light of_ heroes_; why should_ they_ not be heroes, too?
13611W. fired up''Who is excited?
13611Was it my fault?
13611Was this depravity?
13611What, then, is the reasonable attitude of society toward the congenital sexual invert?
13611Who could fail to love a man who could write such a letter?
13611Why coitus without sensual desire for it?
13611Why had I felt a criminal since my seventh year?
13611Why should the invert sigh for intercourse with normal men, where mutual confidences and sympathies and love would be out of the question?
13611Will not this, the last of the taboos, soon vanish?
13611but''What will you forego for his sake?''
13611but''What will you give up?''
13611or is it a natural monstrosity, a human"sport,"the manifestations of which must be regulated when they become antisocial?
13611or is it, as a few assert, a beneficial variety of human emotion which should be tolerated or even fostered?
13615But will it always be thus? 13615 If man be lord of the Sabbath, can he be less than lord of marriage?"
13615If the brain claims her whole vitality, how can there be any proper development? 13615 What has posterity done for me that I should do anything for posterity?"
13615What,Chrysostom asks,"is the reason?
13615Who are you?
13615''I am taken out to dinner and to some place of amusement every night; why should I give it up?''"
13615And James Hinton was wo nt to ask:"What is the meaning of maintaining monogamy?
13615And her father, too, said;"Is it thy great love for thy husband that prevents thee from even veiling thyself?"
13615And with what care he protects her from harm at these periods?
13615Another stroke?
13615Are not the laws of God and Nature more Than formal laws of men?
13615Are outward rites More virtuous than the very substance is Of holy nuptials solemnized within?
13615Are there not reasons for thinking that the future perhaps reserves for us the ineffable surprise of an inversion of that secular order?"
13615But is it passion that in general ennobles human affairs?
13615But what about the children?
13615But why, we may ask, should people be afraid of rousing passions which, after all, are the great driving forces of human life?"
13615Can a woman carry on a Platonic relation with a man from year to year without the thought sometimes coming to her:''Why does he never kiss me?
13615Daniel, President of the State Medical Association of Texas,"Should Insane Criminals or Sexual Perverts be Allowed to Procreate?"
13615Do they know how well this same savage is aware of the weakness of woman and her susceptibility at certain periods of her life?
13615Do you call English life monogamous?"
13615For what, I ask, dear and pious friend, can there be sinful or naturally impure in excrement?
13615Have I no charm for him?''
13615He finally induced her to confess, and then asked her:"Why did you try to make me believe you were a good girl?"
13615How far should children be made familiar with the naked body?
13615How shall we flatten it?
13615I quote a few brief characteristic passages:"Is not,"he wrote,"the Hindu refusal to see a woman eating strangely like ours to see one naked?
13615If marriage is this, is it not embodied lust?
13615If we refuse to touch dung and phlegm even with a fingertip, how can we desire to embrace a sack of dung?
13615If we subtract from lyrical work in words and sounds the suggestions of that intestinal fever, what is left over in poetry and music?
13615Instead of asking: How can I bring joy and strength to another?
13615Is humanity more readily straightened than an iron plate?"
13615Is not empire over oneself, the power of regulating one''s acts, a mark of superiority and a motive for self- esteem?
13615Is there any chance of getting it, I should like to know?
13615Karina Karin("Wie erzieht man ein Kind zür wissenden Keuschheit?"
13615Ne suis- je pas dans l''âge D''y avoir un amant?"
13615On which side, I ask, is the advantage?"
13615One of the brothers, we are told in_ The Paradise_( p. 132) said to Abbâ Zeno,"Behold thou hast grown old, how is the matter of fornication?"
13615Or why is the taking of earthly life a more awful fact than the giving of life?"
13615Paternity is but a mere incident, it was argued, in man''s life: why should maternity be more than a mere incident in woman''s life?
13615Rudolf Sommer, in a paper entitled"Mädchenerziehung oder Menschenbildung?"
13615Rudolf Sommer, similarly, in an excellent article entitled"Mädchenerziehung oder Menschenbildung?"
13615Socrates in the Platonic dialogues was concerned with such theoretical morality: what"ought"people to seek in their actions?
13615Suggestions to mothers are contained in Hugo Salus,_ Wo kommen die Kinder her?_, E. Stiehl,_ Eine Mutterpflicht_, and many other books.
13615The merit would not be so great, but what is the use of an elevation which can rarely be sustained?
13615The merit would not be so great, but what is the use of an elevation which can rarely be sustained?
13615There is another question which has exercised many investigators: To what extent are prostitutes predestined to this career by organic constitution?
13615What is prostitution?
13615What is the psychological influence of familiarity with nakedness?
13615What thing ever was made more for man alone, and less for God, than marriage?"
13615What, then, shall we say about a society?...
13615When the lover, in Laura Marholm''s_ Was war es_?
13615Who nowadays thinks of the sacredness of the head?
13615Why add oil to the flame?
13615Why do you speak of my desire for mortification?
13615Why,"she adds,"is death, the gateway out of life, any more dignified or pathetic than birth, the gateway into life?
13615Will it not be even so with our looking at women altogether?
13615XI) he attempts to answer the question: What sexual relations are essentially impure?
13615Your excrements never turned her stomach, nor made her say,''What am I doing?''
13615[ 10] How far, if at all, it is often asked, should sexual intercourse be continued after fecundation has been clearly ascertained?
13615[ 256] Max von Niessen,"Herr Doktor, darf ich heiraten?"
13615[ 371]"Where are real monogamists to be found?"
13615[ 462] There arises, for instance, the question, often asked, What is the best age for procreation?
13615we only ask: How can I preserve my empty virtue?