Factors in the sex life of twenty-two hundred women / by Katharine Bement Davis.

  • Katharine Bement Davis
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[1929]
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    CONTENTS Acknowledgment vii Introduction—Purpose—Plan of Work ix I. The Background of the Married Group 1 II. The Use of Contraceptives. Frequency of Intercourse as a Possible Factor in Sterility 12 III. The Happiness of Married Life: General Factors 38 IV. The Happiness of Married Life (Cont.). The Sex Factors 62 V. The Background of the Unmarried Group 79 VI. Some Auto-erotic Practices. The Unmarried College Graduates 91 VII. Some Auto-erotic Practices (Cont.). The Married Woman 151 VIII. The Periodicity of Sex Desire. The Unmarried College Graduate 187 IX. The Periodicity of Sex Desire. Married Women 218 X. Homosexuality. The Unmarried College Woman (with Maria E. Kopp) 238 XI. Homosexuality (Cont.). The Married Woman 297 XII. Opinion and Experience (Ruth Topping) 329 Appendix I. Why They Failed to Answer 395 Appendix II. Comparative Study of Methodology (with Ruth Pointer) 493 Bibliography 416 Index 419 Chapters II, III, IV and Appendix I have appeared as articles in the Journal of Social Hygiene, Vol. VIII, No. 2, April, 1922; Vol. IX No. 1, January, 1923; Vol. IX, No. 3, March, 1923; Vol. XI. No 2 February, 1925. Chapters VI and VII have appeared in the Journal of Mental Hvaiene Vol. VIII, No. 3, July, 1924, pp. 668-723; Vol. IX, No. 1, January! 192d, pp. 28-59. Chapters VIII and IX have appeared in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Louis, Vol. XII, No. 6, December 1926, p. 824; Vol. XIV, No. 3, September, 1927, p. 345. '
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