Part 20 (1/2)
Yellow fever, 188
Yogis, 90
THE BOOK OF LIFE
VOLUME TWO: LOVE AND SOCIETY
_To_ Kate Crane Gartz in acknowledgment of her unceasing efforts for a better world, and her fidelity to those who struggle to achieve it.
CONTENTS
PART THREE: THE BOOK OF LOVE
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CHAPTER XXVIII. THE REALITY OF MARRIAGE 3 Discusses the s.e.x-customs now existing in the world, and their relation to the ideal of monogamous love.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARRIAGE 8 Deals with the s.e.x-relations.h.i.+p, its meaning and its history, the stages of its development in human society.
CHAPTER x.x.x. s.e.x AND YOUNG AMERICA 15 Discusses present-day s.e.x arrangements, as they affect the future generation.
CHAPTER x.x.xI. s.e.x AND THE ”SMART SET” 23 Portrays the moral customs of those who set the fas.h.i.+on in our present-day world.
CHAPTER x.x.xII. s.e.x AND THE POOR 29 Discusses prost.i.tution, the extent of its prevalence, and the diseases which result from it.
CHAPTER x.x.xIII. s.e.x AND NATURE 33 Maintains that our s.e.x disorders are not the result of natural or physical disharmony.
CHAPTER x.x.xIV. LOVE AND ECONOMICS 36 Maintains that our s.e.x disorders are of social origin, due to the displacing of love by money as a motive in mating.
CHAPTER x.x.xV. MARRIAGE AND MONEY 40 Discusses the causes of prost.i.tution, and that higher form of prost.i.tution known as the ”marriage of convenience.”
CHAPTER x.x.xVI. LOVE VERSUS l.u.s.t 46 Discusses the s.e.x impulse, its use and misuse; when it should be followed and when repressed.
CHAPTER x.x.xVII. CELIBACY VERSUS CHASt.i.tY 51
The ideal of the repression of the s.e.x-impulse, as against the ideal of its guidance and cultivation.
CHAPTER x.x.xVIII. THE DEFENSE OF LOVE 55
Discusses pa.s.sionate love, its sanction, its place in life, and its preservation in marriage.
CHAPTER x.x.xIX. BIRTH CONTROL 60
Deals with the prevention of conception as one of the greatest of man's discoveries, releasing him from nature's enslavement, and placing the keys of life in his hands.
CHAPTER XL. EARLY MARRIAGE 66