A history of English sexual morals / by Ivan Bloch ; translated by William H. Forstern.

  • Iwan Bloch
Date:
1936
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Credit: A history of English sexual morals / by Ivan Bloch ; translated by William H. Forstern. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I THE ENGLISH WOMAN In the opinion of the most varied aesthetic experts, the English race as a whole, not only the English woman, carries off first prize for beauty among the nations of Europe. According to Finck the English, both physically and spiritually, are the most finely developed race in the world. ' The Englishman is far and away the most beautiful animal in the world The author of London and Paris remarked: c Here beauty in both sexes is so general that only beauty of a high order attracts attention. It seems to me that from this viewpoint the British nobility at a court function must afford a glorious spectacle to any man, not poisoned by communist theories. Few courts can boast such natural grace, such health, such poise2 '. Archenholtz went so far as to place the beauty of English men above that of the women. ' The beauty of English women has become proverbial in Europe, but the men are even better looking. There is a certain amount of justification in women being called the fair sex on the continent; but in England where the phrase is in use, many paradoxes are current to show that only male gallantry tolerates the distinction. For instance, if you were to walk 1 H. T. Finck, Romantic Love and Personal Beauty. Breslau, 1890. Vol. II, pp. 532, 538. 2 London and Paris. Weimar, 1799. Vol. IV, p. 104. [19]