Primitive Love and Love-Stories eBook

Henry Theophilus Finck
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,176 pages of information about Primitive Love and Love-Stories.

Primitive Love and Love-Stories eBook

Henry Theophilus Finck
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,176 pages of information about Primitive Love and Love-Stories.

MISTAKES REGARDING CONJUGAL LOVE

     How Romantic Love is Metamorphosed
     Why Savages Value Wives
     Mourning to Order
     Mourning for Entertainment
     The Truth about Widow-Burning
     Feminine Devotion in Ancient Literature
     Wives Esteemed as Mothers Only
     Why Conjugal Precedes Romantic Love

OBSTACLES TO ROMANTIC LOVE

        I. Ignorance and Stupidity
       ii.  Coarseness and Obscenity
      iii.  War
       iv.  Cruelty
        V. Masculine Selfishness
       VI.  Contempt for Women
      vii.  Capture and Sale of Brides
     VIII.  Infant Marriages
       IX.  Prevention of Free Choice
        X. Separation of the Sexes
       xi.  Sexual Taboos
      xii.  Race Aversions
     XIII.  Multiplicity of Languages
      xiv.  Social Barriers
       XV.  Religious Prejudice

SPECIMENS OF AFRICAN LOVE

     Bushman Qualifications for Love
     “Love in all Their Marriages,”
     False Facts Regarding Hottentots
     Effeminate Men and Masculine Women
     How the Hottentot Woman “Rules at Home,”
     “Regard for Women”
     Capacity for Refined Love
     Hottentot Coarseness
     Fat versus Sentiment
     South African Love-Poems
     A Hottentot Flirt
     Kaffir Morals
     Individual Preference for—­Cows, Bargaining for Brides
     Amorous Preferences
     Zulu Girls not Coy
     Charms and Poems
     A Kaffir Love-Story
     Lower than Beasts
     Colonies of Free Lovers
     A Lesson in Gallantry
     Not a Particle of Romance
     No Love Among Negroes
     A Queer Story
     Suicides
     Poetic Love on the Congo
     Black Love in Kamerun
     A Slave Coast Love-Story
     The Maiden who Always Refused
     African Story-Books
     The Five Suitors
     Tamba and the Princess
     The Sewing Match
     Baling out the Brook
     Proverbs about Women
     African Amazons
     Where Woman Commands
     No Chance for Romantic Love
     Pastoral Love
     Abyssinian Beauty and Flirtation
     Galla Coarseness
     Somali Love-Affairs
     Arabic Influences
     Touareg Chivalry
     An African Love-Letter

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN LOVE

     Personal Charms of Australians
     Cruel Treatment of Women
     Were Savages Corrupted by Whites? 
     Aboriginal Horrors
     Naked and not Ashamed
     Is Civilization Demoralizing? 
     Aboriginal Wantonness
     Lower than Brutes
     Indifference to Chastity
     Useless Precautions
     Survivals of Promiscuity
     Aboriginal Depravity
     The Question of Promiscuity

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