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The Sexual Question
A Scientific, Psychological, Hygienic and Sociological Study for the Cultured Classes. By August Forel, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., Formerly Professor of Psychiatry at and Director of the Insane Asylum in Zürich (Switzerland). English Adaptation by C. F. Marshall, M.D., F.R.C.S., Late Assistant-Surgeon to the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, London. Royal 8vo. With 23 Illustrations, 17 of which are printed in colours. Cloth, 550 pages, price 21s. net.
Extract from Author’s Preface to the First German Edition.
This book is the fruit of long experience and reflection. It has two fundamental ideas—the study of nature, and the study of the psychology of man in health and in disease.
To harmonize the aspirations of human nature and the data of the sociology of the different human races and the different epochs of history, with the results of natural science and the laws of mental and sexual evolution which these have revealed to us, is a task which has become more and more necessary at the present day. It is our duty to our descendants to contribute as far as is in our power to its accomplishment. In recognition of the immense progress of education which we owe to the sweat, the blood, and often to the martyrdom of our predecessors, it behoves us to prepare for our children a life more happy than ours.
Translator’s Preface.
Professor Forel is well known to English readers through the medium of English translations of his other works on Psychiatry and kindred subjects. The present work has already been translated into several European languages. Whether we agree with all Professor Forel’s conclusions or not, we must admit that he has dealt with a difficult and delicate subject in a masterly and scientific manner.
Contents: I. — The Reproduction of Living Beings — History of the Germ — Cell-Division — Parthenogenesis — Conjugation — Mneme — Embryonic Development — Differences of Sexes — Castration — Hermaphrodism — Heredity — Blastophthoria. II. — The Evolution or Descent of Living Beings. III. — Natural Conditions of Mechanism of Human Coitus — Pregnancy — Correlative Sexual Characters. IV. — The Sexual Appetite in Man and Woman — Flirtation. V. — Love and other Irradiations of the Sexual Appetite in the Human Mind — Psychic Irradiations of Love in Man: Procreative Instinct, Jealousy, Sexual Braggardism, Pornographic Spirit, Sexual Hypocrisy, Prudery and Modesty, Old Bachelors — Psychic Irradiations of Love in Woman: Old Maids, Passiveness and Desire, Abandon and Exaltation, Desire for Domination, Petticoat Government, Desire of Maternity and Maternal Love, Routine and Infatuation, Jealousy, Dissimulation, Coquetry, Prudery and Modesty — Fetichism and Anti-Fetichism — Psychological Relations of Love to Religion. VI. — Ethnology and History of the Sexual Life of Man and of Marriage — Origin of Marriage — Antiquity of Matrimonial Institutions — Criticism of the Doctrine of Promiscuity — Marriage and Celibacy — Sexual Advances and Demands of Marriage — Methods of Attraction — Liberty of Choice — Sexual Selection — Law of Resemblance — Hybrids — Prohibition of Consanguineous Marriages — Rôle of Sentiment and Calculation in Sexual Selection — Marriage by Purchase — Decadence of Marriage by Purchase — Dowry — Nuptial Ceremonies — Forms of Marriage — Duration of Marriage — History of Extra-Nuptial Sexual Intercourse. VII. — Sexual Evolution — Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Sexual Life. VIII. — Sexual Pathology — Pathology of the Sexual Organs — Venereal Disease — Sexual Psychology — Reflex Anomalies — Psychic Impotence — Sexual Paradoxy — Sexual Anæsthesia — Sexual Hyperæsthesia — Masturbation and Onanism — Perversions of the Sexual Appetite: Sadism, Masochism, Fetichism, Exhibitionism, Homosexual Love, Sexual Inversion, Pederosis, Sodomy — Sexual Anomalies in the Insane and Psychopathic — Effects of Alcohol on the Sexual Appetite — Sexual Anomalies by Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion — Sexual Perversions due to Habit. IX. — The Rôle of Suggestion in Sexual Life — Amorous Intoxication. X. — The Relations of the Sexual Question to Money and Property — Prostitution, Proxenetism and Venal Concubinage. XI. — The Influence of Environment on Sexual Life — Influence of Climate — Town and Country Life — Vagabondage — Americanism — Saloons and Alcohol — Riches and Poverty — Rank and Social Position — Individual Life — Boarding Schools. XII. — Religion and Sexual Life. XIII. — Rights in Sexual Life — Civil Law — Penal Law — A Medico-Legal Case. XIV. — Medicine and Sexual Life — Prostitution — Sexual Hygiene — Extra-Nuptial Intercourse — Medical Advice — Means of Regulating or Preventing Conception — Hygiene of Marriage — Hygiene of Pregnancy — Medical Advice as to Marriage — Medical Secrecy — Artificial Abortion — Treatment of Sexual Disorders. XV. — Sexual Morality. XVI. — The Sexual Question in Politics and in Political Economy. XVII. — The Sexual Question in Pedagogy. XVIII. — The Sexual Question in Art. XIX. — Conclusions — Utopian Ideas on the Ideal Marriage of the Future — Bibliographical Remarks.
MARRIAGE AND DISEASE
A quarter of a century has elapsed since Francis Galton, in his “Inquiries into Human Faculty,” drew attention to the urgent need for the foundation of a science and practice of “Eugenics,” that is, the improvement of the human stock. “Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State,” edited by Senator and Kaminer, undoubtedly occupies a very high place among recent works devoted to the elucidation of certain aspects of this important topic, and in the abridged edition an adaptation has been prepared for the enlightenment of the thinking portion of the public on pathological questions in relation to marriage and the married state, and from which all purely technical and professional matter has been excluded.
At a time when such questions as the decline of the birth-rate, the sterilization of the degenerate, the restriction of indiscriminate marriages, the voluntary limitation of families, and so forth, form subjects of daily debate and newspaper articles, it is of the greatest advantage that every man and woman who either contemplates or has embarked on matrimony should be as well acquainted, as the limits of our conventionality permit, with the medical or hygienic aspect of marriage.
To give some idea of the scope of this absorbingly interesting work, we append the chapter headings. These apply to the unabridged as well as to the abridged edition at present under review.
I. — Introduction. II. — The Hygiene of Marriage. III. — Congenital and Inherited Diseases and Predispositions to Disease. IV. — Consanguinity and Marriage. V. — Climate, Race, and Nationality in Relation to Marriage. VI. — Sexual Hygiene. VII. — Menstruation, Pregnancy, Child-bed and Lactation. VIII. — Constitutional (Metabolic) Diseases. IX. — Diseases of the Blood. X. — Diseases of the Vascular System. XI. — Diseases of the Respiratory Organs. XII. — Diseases of the Organs of Digestion. XIII. — Diseases of the Kidneys. XIV. — Gonorrhœal Diseases. XV. — (a) Syphilis. XVI. — (b) Diseases of the Skin. XVII. — Diseases of the Organs of Locomotion. XVIII. — Diseases of the Eyes in Relation to Marriage, with special regard to Heredity. XIX. — Diseases of the Lower Uro-Genital Organs and Physical Impotence. XX. — Diseases of Women, including Sterility. XXI. — Diseases of the Nervous System. XXII. — Insanity. XXIII. — Perverse Sexual Sensations and Psychical Impotence. XXIV. — Alcoholism and Morphinism. XXV. — Occupational Injuries. XXVI. — Medico-Professional Secrecy. XXVII. — The Economic Importance of Sanitary Conditions.
Brief as is this sketch of the abridged edition, it will suffice, in conjunction with the following extracts from a few of the many highly laudatory reviews, to show how valuable the work will be to parents and guardians, family advisers, whether lawyers or clergymen, schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, as well as to those who are already married, and to those who are contemplating marriage.
THE LANCET says: “The progress of sociological investigation in modern times has caused increased attention to be paid to questions of health in relation to marriage and the propagation of the human race, and anything which helps to spread abroad an intelligent appreciation of the dangers incurred, not only by individuals who enter on the married state, but also by their offspring, from the existence of many forms of disease must be regarded as a public benefit. The present book is an attempt to make available for general consumption the gist of the larger work from which it is taken.... The material contained in the book is most valuable, and a study of it should be useful to those capable of appreciating it....”
PUBLIC HEALTH says: “It is cleanly, even when dealing with most difficult subjects, and it is a storehouse of information on points on which hygienists are expected to be well informed.”
THE SCOTTISH MEDICAL JOURNAL says: “As a guide for the general public many of the articles are well adapted to fulfil their object.”
THE DAILY DISPATCH says: “... every work that helps to enlightenment is to be welcomed so long as it comes with credentials as to its honesty and guarantees that it is not merely a device for making money out of ignorance. ‘Marriage and Disease’ has all the essential claims to consideration. Dr. Dulberg has very ably condensed the larger manual into one of 450 pages, containing 27 chapters. The volume is of absorbing interest, not only for its arguments and conclusions, but also, and perhaps mainly, for the wealth of information it contains on matrimonial and sex questions in all countries and climes.”
From the Twelfth German Edition.
PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS
With Special Reference to Antipathic Sexual Instinct. A Medico-Forensic Study by the late Dr. R. von Krafft-Ebing, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Vienna. Only authorized Translation. (This is the last edition revised by the late author himself.) This book is sold only to the Members of the Medical, Legal and Clerical Professions. Royal 8vo., with Portrait of Author, containing 583 pages. Cloth, price 21s. net.
This new translation contains much new matter and a great many new cases not referred to in former editions.
The book will be found to be an invaluable aid to the medical practitioner in properly diagnosing certain cases which may be puzzling under ordinary circumstances; whilst in the law courts it will often assist in properly discriminating between crime and insanity or hidden neuropathic affections, thus saving the accused from miscarriage of justice and the court from committing a judicial crime.
In the Press.
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF WOMAN
In writing this little book, the author has been actuated by a desire to bring home to those interested in dairy work the vital importance of sterilising milk, and to set before them those methods by which this may be most cheaply and effectively accomplished.
The author has also endeavoured to avoid the use of such technical terms as would be likely to be unintelligible to the average reader.
“... The book will be read by the lay reader with advantage, since it points out the dangers arising from infected milk and the advantages of sterilised milk.”—Lancet.
“... The author has produced a handbook that will be found intelligible even to those having only an elementary knowledge of dairying....”—Dairy World.
A clear description of the fundamental principles of the causation and manner of transmission of Infectious Disease, written for that large and increasing number of persons who are directly or indirectly interested in this important subject. It includes chapters on Bacteriology, Animal Parasites, and Disinfectants and Disinfection. Effort has been made to avoid speculation and to adhere only to accepted doctrines. The author has carefully abstained from the use of terms and the discussion of questions unintelligible to the general reader.
The International Congress to Combat Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses, which was convened at Berlin, May 24th to 27th, 1899, awarded the International Prize to this work.
“Worthy of an extensive circulation.”—British Medical Journal.
“An excellent treatise.”—Nature.