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The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization / Translated from the Sixth German Edition

Iwan Bloch

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 913 pages

A wide-ranging collection of essays from early twentieth-century sexology, surveying sexual life in relation to modern civilization. Iwan Bloch, a German physician, gathers medical, historical, and social observations for a professional readership. It offers a valuable historical view of how Western medicine once approached sexuality.

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Contents

  1. THE SEXUAL LIFE OF OUR TIME IN ITS RELATIONS TO MODERN CIVILIZATION
  2. PUBLISHERS’ NOTE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
  3. CONTENTS
  4. ERRATA
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. CHAPTER I THE ELEMENTARY PHENOMENA OF HUMAN LOVE
  7. CHAPTER II THE SECONDARY PHENOMENA OF LOVE (BRAIN AND SENSES)
  8. CHAPTER III THE SECONDARY PHENOMENA OF HUMAN LOVE (REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS, SEXUAL IMPULSE, SEXUAL ACT)
  9. CHAPTER IV PHYSICAL DIFFERENTIAL SEXUAL CHARACTERS
  10. CHAPTER V PSYCHICAL DIFFERENTIAL SEXUAL CHARACTERS—THE WOMAN’S QUESTION (Appendix: SEXUAL SENSIBILITY IN WOMAN)
  11. CHAPTER VI THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT IN LOVE—RELIGION AND SEXUALITY
  12. CHAPTER VII THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT IN LOVE—THE EROTIC SENSE OF SHAME (NAKEDNESS AND CLOTHING)
  13. CHAPTER VIII THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT IN LOVE—THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF LOVE
  14. CHAPTER IX THE ARTISTIC ELEMENT IN MODERN LOVE
  15. CHAPTER X THE SOCIAL FORMS OF THE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP—MARRIAGE
  16. CHAPTER XI FREE LOVE
  17. CHAPTER XII SEDUCTION, THE SENSUAL LIFE (GENUSSLEBEN), AND WILD LOVE (WILDE LIEBE)
  18. CHAPTER XIII PROSTITUTION
  19. CHAPTER XIV VENEREAL DISEASES
  20. CHAPTER XV PROPHYLAXIS, TREATMENT, AND SUPPRESSION (BEKÄMPFUNG) OF VENEREAL DISEASES
  21. CHAPTER XVI STATES OF SEXUAL IRRITABILITY AND SEXUAL WEAKNESS (Auto-erotism, Masturbation, Sexual Hyperæsthesia and Sexu
  22. CHAPTER XVII THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECT OF PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS
  23. CHAPTER XVIII MISOGYNY
  24. CHAPTER XIX THE RIDDLE OF HOMOSEXUALITY
  25. CHAPTER XX PSEUDO-HOMOSEXUALITY (GREEK AND ORIENTAL PÆDERASTY, HERMAPHRODITISM, BISEXUAL VARIETIES)
  26. CHAPTER XXI ALGOLAGNIA (SADISM AND MASOCHISM)
  27. CHAPTER XXII SEXUAL FETICHISM
  28. CHAPTER XXIII ACTS OF FORNICATION WITH CHILDREN, INCEST, ACTS OF FORNICATION WITH CORPSES AND ANIMALS (BESTIALITY), EXHI
  29. CHAPTER XXIV OFFENCES AGAINST MORALITY FROM THE FORENSIC STANDPOINT.
  30. CHAPTER XXV THE QUESTION OF SEXUAL ABSTINENCE (DIE ENTHALTSAMKEITSFRAGE)

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