Primitive Love and Love-Stories eBook

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Start of eBook	1
MISTAKES REGARDING CONJUGAL LOVE	1
SPECIMENS OF AFRICAN LOVE	1
ISLAND LOVE ON THE PACIFIC	2
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF AUTHORS	4
INDEX OF SUBJECTS	4
AND	4
HISTORY OF AN IDEA	4
ORIGIN OF A BOOK	4
SKEPTICAL CRITICS	5
ROBERT BURTON	5
HEGEL ON GREEK LOVE	6
SHELLEY ON GREEK LOVE	8
MACAULAY, BULWER-LYTTON, GAUTIER	9
GOLDSMITH AND ROUSSEAU	9
LOVE A COMPOUND FEELING	10
HERBERT SPENCER’S ANALYSIS	11
ACTIVE IMPULSES MUST BE ADDED	13
SENSUALITY THE ANTIPODE OF LOVE	13
THE WORD ROMANTIC	14
ANIMALS HIGHER THAN SAVAGES	14
LOVE THE LAST, NOT THE FIRST, PRODUCT OF CIVILIZATION	15
PLAN OF THIS VOLUME	16
GREEK SENTIMENTALITY	16
IMPORTANCE OF LOVE	16
HOW SENTIMENTS CHANGE AND GROW	17
NO LOVE OF ROMANTIC SCENERY	18
NO LOVE IN EARLY RELIGION	18
MURDER AS A VIRTUE	23
SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS.	25
HONORABLE POLYGAMY	28
CURIOSITIES OF MODESTY	30
INDIFFERENCE TO CHASTITY	33
HORROR OF INCEST	36
WHAT IS ROMANTIC LOVE?	40
INGREDIENTS OF LOVE	41
I. INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE	41
ALL GIRLS EQUALLY ATTRACTIVE	42
SHALLOW PREDILECTION	43
REPRESSION OF PREFERENCE	43
UTILITY VERSUS SENTIMENT	44
A STORY OF AFRICAN LOVE	45
SIMILARITY OF INDIVIDUALS AND SEXES	45
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS	46
FASTIDIOUS SENSUALITY IS NOT LOVE	47
TWO STORIES OF INDIAN LOVE	47
FEMININE IDEALS SUPERIOR TO MASCULINE	48
SEX IN BODY AND MIND	49
TRUE FEMININITY AND ITS FEMALE ENEMIES	49
MYSTERIES OF LOVE	51
AN ORIENTAL LOVE-STORY	52
II. MONOPOLISM	53
JULIET AND NOTHING BUT JULIET	54
BUTTERFLY LOVE	54
ROMANTIC STORIES OF NON-ROMANTIC LOVE	55
OBSTACLES TO MONOPOLISM	57
WIVES AND GIRLS IN COMMON	58
TRIAL MARRIAGES	59
TWO ROMAN LOVERS	60
III. JEALOUSY	61
RAGE AT RIVALS	61
WOMEN AS PRIVATE PROPERTY	62
HORRIBLE PUNISHMENTS	63
ESSENCE OF TRUE JEALOUSY	63
ABSENCE OF MASCULINE JEALOUSY	64
PERSIAN AND GREEK JEALOUSY	69
PRIMITIVE FEMININE JEALOUSY	72
ABSENCE OF FEMININE JEALOUSY	73
JEALOUSY PURGED OF HATE	77
A VIRTUOUS SIN	78
ABNORMAL STATES	79
JEALOUSY IN ROMANTIC LOVE	80
IV. COYNESS	81
WOMEN WHO WOO	81
WERE HEBREW AND GREEK WOMEN COY?	84
MASCULINE COYNESS	86
SHY BUT NOT COY	86
MILITARISM AND MEDIAEVAL WOMEN	87
WHAT MADE WOMEN COY?	88
CAPTURING WOMEN	90
THE COMEDY OF MOCK CAPTURE	91
WHY THE WOMEN RESIST	93
QUAINT CUSTOMS	94
GREEK AND ROMAN MERCENARY COYNESS	95
MODESTY AND COYNESS	96
UTILITY OF COYNESS	97
HOW WOMEN PROPOSE	98
V. HOPE AND DESPAIR—MIXED MOODS	98
AMOROUS ANTITHESES	99
COURTSHIP AND IMAGINATION	100
EFFECTS OF SENSUAL LOVE	100
VI. HYPERBOLE	101
GIRLS AND FLOWERS	102
EYES AND STARS	103
LOCKS AND FRAGRANCE	103
POETIC DESIRE FOR CONTACT	104
NATURE’S SYMPATHY WITH LOVERS	105
ROMANTIC BUT NOT LOVING	105
THE POWER OF LOVE	107
VII. PRIDE	108
A MYSTERY EXPLAINED	109
IMPORTANCE OF PRIDE	109
VARIETIES AND GERMS	110
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SYMPTOMS OF LOVE	111
VIII. SYMPATHY	112
EGOTISM, NAKED OK MASKED	113
DELIGHT IN THE TORTURE OF OTHERS	114
INDIFFERENCE TO SUFFERING	115
EXPOSING THE SICK AND AGED	117
BIRTH OF SYMPATHY	117
WOMEN CRUELER THAN MEN	118
PLATO DENOUNCES SYMPATHY	119
SHAM ALTRUISM IN INDIA	120
EVOLUTION OF SYMPATHY	121
AMOROUS SYMPATHY	121
IX. ADORATION	122
DEIFICATION OF PERSONS	122
PRIMITIVE CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN	123
HOMAGES TO PRIESTESSES	127
KINSHIP THROUGH FEMALES ONLY	127
WOMAN’S DOMESTIC RULE	129
WOMAN’S POLITICAL RULE	129
GREEK ESTIMATE OF WOMEN	130
MAN-WORSHIP AND CHRISTIANITY	131
X. UNSELFISH GALLANTRY.	131
THE GALLANT ROOSTER	132
UNGALLANT LOWER RACES OF MEN	132
EGYPTIAN LOVE	135
ARABIAN LOVE	136
THE UNCHIVALROUS GREEKS	137
OVID’S SHAM GALLANTRY	138
MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN GALLANTRY	139
SUMMARY	141
A SURE TEST OF LOVE	142
XI. ALTRUISTIC SELF-SACRIFICE	142
THE LADY AND THE TIGER	143
A GREEK LOVE-STORY	144
PERSIAN LOVE	145
HERO AND LEANDER	147
THE ELEPHANT AND THE LOTOS	147
SUICIDE IS SELFISH	148
XII. AFFECTION	150
EROTIC ASSASSINS	150
THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON	152
STUFF AND NONSENSE	153
SACRIFICES OF CANNIBAL HUSBANDS	153
INCLINATIONS MISTAKEN FOR AFFECTION	154
SELFISH LIKING AND ATTACHMENT	155
FOOLISH FONDNESS	155
UNSELFISH AFFECTION	157
XIII. MENTAL PURITY	158
GERMAN TESTIMONY	159
ENGLISH TESTIMONY	160
MAIDEN FANCIES	161
PATHOLOGIC LOVE	161
A MODERN SENTIMENT	162
PERSIANS, TURKS, AND HINDOOS	162
LOVE DESPISED IN JAPAN AND CHINA	164
GREEK SCORN FOR WOMAN-LOVE	164
PENETRATIVE VIRGINITY	165
XIV. ADMIRATION OF PERSONAL BEAUTY	165
DARWIN’S UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE	166
“DECORATION” FOR PROTECTION	168
WAR “DECORATIONS”	168
AMULETS, CHARMS, MEDICINES.	170
MOURNING LANGUAGE	172
INDICATIONS OF TRIBE OR RANK	174
VAIN DESIRE TO ATTRACT ATTENTION	177
OBJECTS OF TATTOOING	178
TATTOOING ON PACIFIC ISLANDS	179
TATTOOING IN AMERICA	181
TATTOOING IN JAPAN	182
SCARIFICATION.	183
ALLEGED TESTIMONY OF NATIVES	184
MISLEADING TESTIMONY OF VISITORS	185
“DECORATION” AT THE AGE OF PUBERTY	188
“DECORATION” AS A TEST OF COURAGE	190
MUTILATION, FASHION, AND EMULATION	191
PERSONAL BEAUTY VERSUS PERSONAL DECORATION	193
DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM (?)	195
INDIFFERENCE TO DIRT	197
REASONS FOR BATHING.	198
CORPULENCE VERSUS BEAUTY	199
FATTENING GIRLS FOR THE MARRIAGE MARKET	200
ORIENTAL IDEALS	201
THE CONCUPISCENCE THEORY OF BEAUTY	202
UTILITY IS NOT BEAUTY	203
A NEW SENSE EASILY LOST AGAIN	204
MORAL UGLINESS	204
BEAUTIFYING INTELLIGENCE	205
THE STRANGE GREEK ATTITUDE	206
A COMPOSITE AND VARIABLE SENTIMENT	206
DEFINITION OF LOVE	206
WHY CALLED ROMANTIC	207
SENSUALITY, SENTIMENTALITY, AND SENTIMENT	209
APPETITE AND LONGING	209
WILES OF AN ORIENTAL GIRL	213
RARITY OF TRUE LOVE	215
MISTAKES REGARDING CONJUGAL LOVE	218
HOW ROMANTIC LOVE IS METAMORPHOSED	218
WHY SAVAGES VALUE WIVES	220
MOURNING TO ORDER	223
MOURNING FOR ENTERTAINMENT	226
THE TRUTH ABOUT WIDOW-BURNING	227
FEMININE DEVOTION IN ANCIENT LITERATURE	229
WIVES ESTEEMED AS MOTHERS ONLY	230
WHY CONJUGAL PRECEDES ROMANTIC LOVE	231
OBSTACLES TO ROMANTIC LOVE	234
I. IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY	234
II. COARSENESS AND OBSCENITY	235
III. WAR	236
IV. CRUELTY	237
V. MASCULINE SELFISHNESS	237
VI. CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN	238
VII. CAPTURE AND SALE OF BRIDES	238
VIII. INFANT MARRIAGES	239
IX. PREVENTION OF FREE CHOICE	239
X. SEPARATION OF THE SEXES	247
XI. SEXUAL TABOOS	248
XII. RACE AVERSION	250
XIII. MULTIPLICITY OF LANGUAGES	250
XIV. SOCIAL BARRIERS	251
XV. RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE	253
SPECIMENS OF AFRICAN LOVE	253
BUSHMAN QUALIFICATIONS FOR LOVE	253
FALSE FACTS REGARDING HOTTENTOTS	259
EFFEMINATE MEN AND MASCULINE WOMEN	260
HOW THE HOTTENTOT WOMAN “RULES AT HOME”	261
CAPACITY FOR REFINED LOVE	263
HOTTENTOT COARSENESS	263
FAT VERSUS SENTIMENT	264
SOUTH AFRICAN LOVE-POEMS	265
A HOTTENTOT FLIRT	265
KAFFIR MORALS	266
INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE FOR—COWS	269
BARGAINING FOR BRIDES	270
AMOROUS PREFERENCES	271
ZULU GIRLS NOT COY	272
CHARMS AHD POEMS	273
A KAFFIR LOVE-STORY	274
LOWER THAN BEASTS	275
COLONIES OF FREE LOVERS	276
A LESSON IN GALLANTRY	277
NOT A PARTICLE OF ROMANCE	278
NO LOVE AMONG NEGROES	279
A QUEER STORY	280
SUICIDES	281
POETIC LOVE ON THE CONGO	281
BLACK LOVE IN KAMERUN	282
A SLAVE COAST LOVE-STORY	283
THE MAIDEN WHO ALWAYS REFUSED	284
AFRICAN STORY-BOOKS	285
THE FIVE SUITORS	286
THE SEWING MATCH	287
BALING OUT THE BROOK	287
PROVERBS ABOUT WOMEN	288
AFRICAN AMAZONS	288
WHERE WOMAN COMMANDS	289
NO CHANCE FOR ROMANTIC LOVE	290
PASTORAL LOVE	290
ABYSSINIAN BEAUTY AND FLIRTATION	292
GALLA COARSENESS	293
SOMALI LOVE-AFFAIRS	293
ARABIC INFLUENCES	295
TOUAREG CHIVALRY	296
AN AFRICAN LOVE-LETTER	297
ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN LOVE	298
PERSONAL CHARMS OF AUSTRALIANS	298
CRUEL TREATMENT OF WOMEN	299
WERE SAVAGES CORRUPTED BY WHITES?	302
ABORIGINAL HORRORS	303
NAKED AND NOT ASHAMED	304
IS CIVILIZATION DEMORALIZING?	305
ABORIGINAL WANTONNESS	306
LOWER THAN BRUTES	307
INDIFFERENCE TO CHASTITY	308
USELESS PRECAUTIONS	309
SURVIVALS OF PROMISCUITY	310
ABORIGINAL DEPRAVITY	312
THE QUESTION OF PROMISCUITY	313
WHY DO AUSTRALIANS MARRY?	315
CURIOSITIES OF JEALOUSY	315
PUGNACIOUS FEMALES	318
WIFE STEALING	319
SWAPPING GIRLS	321
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ELOPEMENTS	322
CHARMING A WOMAN BY MAGIC	325
OTHER OBSTACLES TO LOVE	326
MARRIAGE TABOOS AND “INCEST.”	327
AFFECTION FOR WOMEN AND DOGS	328
A HORRIBLE CUSTOM	330
ROMANTIC AFFLICTION	331
A LOCK OF HAIR	331
TWO NATIVE STORIES	332
BARRINGTON’S LOVE-STORY	334
RISKING LIFE FOR A WOMAN	335
GERSTAECKER’S LOVE-STORY	336
LOCAL COLOR IN COURTSHIP	337
LOVE-LETTERS	337
ISLAND LOVE ON THE PACIFIC	338
WHERE WOMEN PROPOSE	338
BORNEAN CAGED GIRLS	341
CHARMS OF DYAK WOMEN	342
DYAK MORALS	342
NOCTURNAL COURTSHIP	343
HEAD HUNTERS A-WOOING	344
FICKLE AND SHALLOW PASSION	345
DYAK LOVE-SONGS	346
THE GIRL WITH THE CLEAN FACE	347
FIJIAN REFINEMENTS	347
HOW CANNIBALS TREAT WOMEN	348
FIJIAN MODESTY AND CHASTITY	349
EMOTIONAL CURIOSITIES	351
FIJIAN LOVE-POEMS	352
SERENADES AND PROPOSALS	353
SUICIDES AND BACHELORS	353
SAMOAN TRAITS	354
COURTSHIP PANTOMIME	355
TWO SAMOAH LOVE-STORIES	356
PERSONAL CHARMS OF SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS	358
TAHITIANS AND THEIR WHITE VISITORS	358
HEARTLESS TREATMENT OF WOMEN	360
TWO STORIES OF TAHITIAN INFATUATION	361
CAPTAIN COOK ON TAHITIAN LOVE	362
WERE THE TONGANS CIVILIZED?	363
LOVE OF SCENERY	364
A CANNIBAL BARGAIN	365
THE HANDSOME CHIEFS	366
HONEYMOON IN A CAVE	366
A HAWAIIAN CAVE-STORY	367
IS THIS ROMANTIC LOVE?	370
VAGARIES OF HAWAIIAN FONDNESS	371
HAWAIIAN MORALS	372
THE HELEN OF HAWAII	373
INTERCEPTED LOVE-LETTERS	374
MAORIS OF NEW ZEALAND	376
THE MAIDEN OF ROTORUA	377
LOVE IN A FORTRESS	379
STRATAGEM OF AN ELOPEMENT	380
MAORI LOVE-POEMS	382
THE WOOING-HOUSE	384
LIBERTY OF CHOICE AND RESPECT FOR WOMEN	385
MAORI MORALS AND CAPACITY FOR LOVE	387
HOW AMERICAN INDIANS LOVE	389
THE RED LOVER	389
THE FOAM WOMAN	390
THE HUMPBACK MAGICIAN	391
THE BUFFALO KING	392
THE HAUNTED GROVE	393
THE GIRL AND THE SCALP	394
A CHIPPEWA LOVE-SONG	394
HOW “INDIAN STORIES” ARE WRITTEN	395
REALITY VERSUS ROMANCE	397
DECEPTIVE MODESTY	398
WERE INDIANS CORRUPTED BY WHITES?	399
THE NOBLE RED MAN	401
APPARENT EXCEPTIONS	404
INTIMIDATING CALIFORNIA SQUAWS	406
GOING A-CALUMETING	406
SQUAWS AND PERSONAL BEAUTY	408
ARE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS GALLANT?	409
SOUTH AMERICAN GALLANTRY	419
HOW INDIANS ADORE SQUAWS	421
CHOOSING A HUSBAND	422
COMPULSORY “FREE CHOICE”	424
A BRITISH COLUMBIA STORY	424
THE DANGER OF COQUETRY	425
THE GIRL MARKET	425
OTHER WAYS OF THWARTING FREE CHOICE	427
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN EXAMPLES	429
WHY INDIANS ELOPE	430
SUICIDE AND LOVE	432
LOVE-CHARMS	436
CURIOSITIES OF COURTSHIP	437
PANTOMIMIC LOVE-MAKING	440
HONEYMOON	440
MUSIC IN INDIAN COURTSHIP	441
INDIAN LOVE-POEMS	442
MORE LOVE-STORIES	447
THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS	450
VERDICT: NO ROMANTIC LOVE	451
THE UNLOVING ESKIMO	454
INDIA—WILD TRIBES AND TEMPLE GIRLS	455
PRACTICAL PROMISCUITY	456
LIBERTY OF CHOICE	459
SCALPS AND FIELD-MICE	461
A TOPSY-TURVY CUSTOM	461
PAHARIA LADS AND LASSES	462
CHILD MURDER AND CHILD MARRIAGE	463
MONSTROUS PARENTAL SELFISHNESS	464
HOW HINDOO GIRLS ARE DISPOSED OF	465
HINDOOS FAR BELOW BRUTES	466
CONTEMPT IN PLACE OF LOVE	467
WIDOWS AND THEIR TORMENTORS	469
HINDOO DEPRAVITY	470
TEMPLE GIRLS	472
AN INDIAN ASPASIA	473
SYMPTOMS OF FEMININE LOVE	475
SYMPTOMS OF MASCULINE LOVE	478
LYRICS AND DRAMAS	481
I. THE STORY OF SAKUNTALA	481
II. THE STORY OF URVASI	484
III. MALAVIKA AND AGNIMITRA	488
IV. THE STORY OF SAVITRI	490
V. NALA AND DAMAYANTI	493
ARTIFICIAL SYMPTOMS	496
THE HINDOO GOD OF LOVE	497
DYING FOR LOVE	498
WHAT HINDOO POETS ADMIRE IN WOMEN	499
THE OLD STORY OF SELFISHNESS	500
BAYADERES AND PRINCESSES AS HEROINES	501
VOLUNTARY UNIONS NOT RESPECTABLE	502
DOES THE BIBLE IGNORE ROMANTIC LOVE?	504
THE STORY OF JACOB AND RACHEL	505
THE COURTING OF REBEKAH	509
HOW RUTH COURTED BOAZ	510
NO SYMPATHY OR SENTIMENT	512
A MASCULINE IDEAL OF WOMANHOOD	513
NOT THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL OF LOVE	513
UNCHIVALROUS SLAUGHTER OF WOMEN	514
FOUR MORE BIBLE STORIES	515
ABISHAG THE SHUNAMMITE	516
THE SONG OF SONGS	516
GREEK LOVE-STORIES AND POEMS	521
CHAMPIONS OF GREEK LOVE	521
GLADSTONE ON THE WOMEN OF HOMER	523
ACHILLES AS A LOVER	524
ODYSSEUS, LIBERTINE AND RUFFIAN	527
WAS PENELOPE A MODEL WIFE?	529
HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE	530
BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF GREEK WOMEN	532
LOVE IN SAPPHO’S POEMS	534
MASCULINE MINDS IN FEMALE BODIES	537
ANACREON AND OTHERS	538
WOMAN AND LOVE IN AESCHYLUS	539
WOMAN AND LOVE IN SOPHOCLES	541
WOMAN AND LOVE IN EURIPIDES	544
ROMANTIC LOVE, GREEK STYLE	549
PLATONIC LOVE OF WOMEN	551
SPARTAN OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOVE	552
AMAZONIAN IDEAL OF GREEK WOMANHOOD	553
ATHENIAN ORIENTALISM	555
LITERATURE AND LIFE	556
GREEK LOVE IN AFRICA	558
ALEXANDRIAN CHIVALRY.	560
THE NEW COMEDY	562
THEOCRITUS AND CALLIMACHUS	563
MEDEA AND JASON	565
POETS AND HETAIRAI.	567
SHORT STORIES	569
GREEK ROMANCES	572
DAPHNIS AND CHLOE	573
HERO AND LEANDER	574
CUPID AND PSYCHE	576
UTILITY AND FUTURE OF LOVE	577
FOOTNOTES:	584
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF AUTHORS	622
INDEX OF SUBJECTS	633