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

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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THE SEXUAL LIFE OF OUR TIME
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF

OUR TIME

IN ITS RELATIONS TO MODERN

CIVILIZATION

BY

IWAN BLOCH, M.D.

PHYSICIAN FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN, AND FOR DISEASES OF THE SEXUAL SYSTEM

IN CHARLOTTENBURG, BERLIN

AUTHOR OF “THE ORIGIN OF SYPHILIS,” ETC.

TRANSLATED FROM THE SIXTH GERMAN EDITION

BY

M. EDEN PAUL, M.D.

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LONDON

REBMAN LIMITED, 129, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, W.C.

1909

Entered at Stationers’ Hall, 1908

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PUBLISHERS’ NOTE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION

The author’s aim in writing this book was to write a complete

Encyclopædia on the sexual sciences, and it will probably be acknowledged by all who study its pages that the author has accomplished his intention in a very scholarly manner, and in such form as to be of great value to the professions for whom this translation is intended. The subject is no doubt one which appeals to and affects the interests of all adult persons, but the publishers have, after very serious and careful consideration, come to the conclusion that the sale of the English translation of the book shall be limited to members of the legal and medical professions. To both these professions it is essential that a knowledge of the science of Sex and the various causes for the existence of “abnormals” should be ascertained, so that they may be guided in the future in their investigations into, and the practice of attempts to mitigate, the evil which undoubtedly exists, and to bring about a more healthy class of beings. It is the first time that the subject has been so carefully and fully gone into in the English language, and it is believed that the very exhaustive examination which the author has made into the matter, and the various cases to which he has called attention, will be of considerable use to the medical practitioner, and also to the lawyer in criminal and quasi-criminal matters, and probably in matrimonial disputes and cases of insanity.

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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)

and 13 more chapters

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