Love's coming of age : a series of papers on the relations of the sexes / by Edward Carpenter.

  • Edward Carpenter
Date:
1911
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Credit: Love's coming of age : a series of papers on the relations of the sexes / by Edward Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    life Sex enters probably even more into consciousness than hunger. For the hunger-needs of the human race are in the later societies fairly well satisfied, but the sex-desires are strongly restrained, both by law and custom, from satisfaction—and so assert them- selves all the more in thought. To find the place of these desires, their utterance, their control, their personal import, their social import, is a tremendous problem to every youth and girl, man and woman. There are a few of both sexes, doubtless, who hardly feel the passion—who have never been “ in love,” and who experience no strong sexual appetite —but these are rare. Practically the passion is a matter of universal experience ; and speaking broadly and generally we may say it is a matter on which it is quite desirable that every adult at some time or other should have actual experience. There maybe exceptions; but, as said, the instinct lies so deep and is so universal, that for the understanding of life—of one’s own life, of that of others, and of human nature in general—as well as for the proper development of one’s own capacities, such experience is as a rule needed. And here in passing I would say that in the social life of the future this need will surely be recognised, and that (while there will be no stigma
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