The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization

The history of love is the history of mankind, of civilization. Magic propagates itself by means of sexual desire, and, according to Martius, will predominate among primitive peoples as long as these remain unchaste.[64] Secret arts, voluptuousness, and unnatural vice are inseparable one from another. From the Diary of a Girl”), which demands from the man before marriage the same purity and chastity that man himself demands from his future wife. See Preventive measures Prelibido, 46 Premature marriage.