Sex in Relation to Society

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume VI: Sex in Relation to Society describes the social attitude and legal opinion toward sex. This volume is composed of 12 chapters, and starts with a survey on the maternal role in child's early knowledge about sex. The next chapters explore the principles of sex education, nakedness, sexual love, chastity, and sexual abstinence. Other chapters cover sex-related topics including the origin and development of prostitution, sexual morality, marriage, and the so-called ""art of love"". A chapter tackles the issue of acquiring venereal disease due to sexual malpractice and prostitution. The final chapter discusses the link between the art of love and the science of procreation. This book will be of value to psychologists, teachers, parents, and the general readers who are interested the allied fields.

PrefaceChapter I. The Mother and Her Child The Child's Right to Choose Its Ancestry How This is Effected The Mother the Child's Supreme Parent Motherhood and the Woman Movement The Immense Importance of Motherhood Infant Mortality and Its Causes The Chief Cause in the Mother The Need of Rest during Pregnancy Frequency of Premature Birth The Function of the State Recent Advance in Puericulture The Question of Coitus during Pregnancy The Need of Rest during Lactation The Mother's Duty to Suckle Her Child The Economic Question The Duty of the State Recent Progress in the Protection of the Mother The Fallacy of State NurseriesChapter II. Sexual Education Nurture as Necessary as Breed Precocious Manifestations of the Sexual Impulse Are They to be Regarded as Normal? The Sexual Play of Children The Emotion of Love in Childhood Are Town Children, More Precocious Sexually than Country Children? Children's Ideas concerning the Origin of Babies Need for Beginning the Sexual Education of Children in Early Years Early Training in Responsibility Evil of the Old Doctrine of Silence in Matters of Sex The Evil Magnified When Applied to Girls The Morbid Influence of Artificial Mystery Books on Sexual Enlightenment Nature of the Mother's Task Sexual Education in the School The Value of Biology Sexual Education after Puberty Preparation for the Onset of Menstruation The Right Attitude Towards Woman's Sexual Life Necessity of the Hygiene of Menstruation during Adolescence Such Hygiene Compatible with the Educational and Social Equality of the Sexes The Invalidism of Women Mainly Due to Hygienic Neglect Influence of Physical Training on Women The Evils of Emotional Suppression Influence of These Factors of a Woman's Fate in Marriage The Doctor's Part in Sexual Education Pubertal Initiation into the Ideal World The Place of the Religious and Ethical Teacher The Initiation Rites of Savages into Manhood and Womanhood The Sexual Influence of Literature The Sexual Influence of ArtChapter III. Sexual Education and Nakedness The Greek Attitude Towards Nakedness How the Romans Modified that Attitude The Influence of Christianity Nakedness in Medieval Times Evolution of the Horror of Nakedness Concomitant Change in the Conception of Nakedness Prudery The Romantic Movement Rise of a New Feeling in Regard to Nakedness The Hygienic Aspect of Nakedness How Children may be Accustomed to Nakedness Nakedness not Inimical to Modesty The Instinct of Physical Pride The Value of Nakedness in Education The Æsthetic Value of Nakedness The Human Body as One of the Prime Tonics of Life How Nakedness may be Cultivated The Moral Value of Nakedness.Chapter IV. The Valuation of Sexual Love The Conception of Sexual Love The Attitude of Medieval Asceticism St. Bernard and St. Odo of Cluny The Ascetic Insistence on the Proximity of the Sexual and Excretory Centres Love as a Sacrament of Nature The Idea of the Impurity of Sex in Primitive Religions Generally Theories of the Origin of This Idea The Anti-Ascetic Element in the Bible and Early Christianity Clement of Alexandria St.

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