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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    CHAPTER PAGE XI. Tue Sport of Love i. : ; ; ° : - 125 Frascata’s Letter in La Vie Parisienne. Gallant Love Contrasted with Tragic Love. Deeper Significance of the Sport of Love. Olympic Love-Sport of the Gods of Ancient Greece. Love-Sport of the Martians in Lasswitz’s Novel. A Pure Sport of Sentiment as an Ideal of Civilization. XII. Love-WITcHERY . : : : : : : : ; . 132 The Eros of Diotima. Love-Witchery as Symbolized in A Mid- summer Night’s Dream. The Siegfried-Brimnehilde Myth. The Influence of Christianity in Sustaining the Conception of Woman-as- Destroyer. Her Role in Literature. Replacement of Love- Witchery by a New Ideal. XIII. Love-HAte ; 3 ; ; . 140 The Struggle of the Sexes, ‘Its Significance. The Primal Curse. Penthesilea—a Drama of Love-Hate. Cannot We Put an End to Love-Hate by a New Art of Love? XIV. Love-NEEpD : : . 149 Frigidity of our Own Epoch. La Grande Amoureuse. Pathological and Social Love-Need. Sensual Impotence. Its Pathological Causes. Psychoneurosis. Freud’s Theory. Psychie Inability to Control the Physical Manifestations of Sexual Tension. Male Demi-Vierges. A Sequence of Loves. Literature of Love. Love-Poetry of the Future. Book VI—THE TRAVESTY OF LOVE XV. NATURE AND ORIGIN OF PROSTITUTION . 5 : : . 159 Definition of the Concept. Myth and Legend. Tellurism as a Means of Providing a Dowry. Decline of Religious Prostitution. The Athenian Dikterion. The Emancipated Woman as a Free Hetaira. The ‘‘ Young Maidens’’ of the Cyprian Venus. Rome, Christianity and the Degradation of Prostitution. Its Ultimate Ruin through the Introduction of Syphilis from America. Attempts at the Regulation of Prostitution. Aggravation of its Evils. Abolitionist Congress of 1877. XVI. Tue Necessity or PRostiTuTion : - 167 Prostitution as an Inevitable Correlate of the Modern Marriage- System. The Need for Unfettering Sexual Intercourse. XVII. THE MELANCHOLY TRAVESTY . . 175 Its Victims. Its Dangers. Threefold Corruption of the Man; ; of the Victim; and of the Social Consciousness. Abyss between the Day-Consciousness and the Night-Consciousness. Enfeéblement of the Sexual Impulse. Misused Nature’s Revenge. Sufferings of Men. XVIII. THe Economic Basis . . ; ‘ « 281 Boundary between Prostitution and Free Love. The Maintenance of the Woman by the Man is Neither Unnatural nor Antisocial. In the Free Intimacy, the Money Question Is Usually Left Entirely to Chance. Attitude Toward This Matter in France and Germany respectively. German ‘‘Idealism.’’ An Economic Order in which the Wife and the Mother Will Be Socially Endowed, as a Substitute for the Maintenance of the Wife by the Husband. Metaphysical Idea of ‘‘Compensating’’ a Woman for the Surrender of Her Person. Of the Two Sexual Partners, the Woman Is the One Espe- cially Endangered by Love, Alike Biologically, Economically and Morally. AIX. REFORM OF PROSTITUTION . « AS0 Falsity of the Platonic Campaign “Against Prostitution. Proposals to Get Rid of the Evil by Means of Ethical Teaching, Vegetarianism, Tracts and Pamphlets, Physical Culture and Family Life. How to Make Prostitution Superfluous. A Conceivable Method. The ‘*Sport of the Martians’’ reconsidered. ‘‘ Hrotic Friendship’’ recon- sidered. The Reformer as an Intermediary Between the Sufferings of the Present and the Star of the Ideal.
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