The sexual crisis : a critique of our sex life / by Grete Meisel-Hess ; authorized translation by Eden and Cedar Paul.

  • Grete Meisel-Hess
Date:
1917
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Credit: The sexual crisis : a critique of our sex life / by Grete Meisel-Hess ; authorized translation by Eden and Cedar Paul. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    process wherein she plays so essential a part.1® Sex is the ultimate foundation of the woman’s movement. Since women were being starved into submission, were being forced into the most shame- ful dependence upon anyone who could provide them with a morsel of food, they were compelled to organize actively in their own be- half. But the woman’s movement, which will free women from their present degrading dependence upon men, is not inspired by any sentiment of revenge, for its general aim is one of redemption. It opens a way towards the redemption of the enchained and mis- used sexual life of man and woman. Of many means that must co- operate towards this end, the woman’s movement is merely the first and the most immediately available. But the ultimate goal is something wider and grander than this means. The goal is the Protection of Motherhood, and as we draw nearer to it the woman’s movement will give place to the deliberate and purposive initiative of the community at large. 1 Writing of the endowment of motherhood, H. G. Wells says (A Modern Utopia, p. 189): ‘It will abolish the hardship of those who do not marry on account of poverty, or who do not dare to have children. The fear that often turns a woman from a beautiful to a mercenary marriage will vanish from life.’’—-TRANSLATOR’S NOTE.
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