Modern Morality—­Christianity and the Art of Love—­Ovid—­The Art of Love
Among Primitive Peoples—­Sexual Initiation in Africa and Elsewhere—­The
Tendency to Spontaneous Development of the Art of Love in Early
Life—­Flirtation—­Sexual Ignorance in Women—­The Husband’s Place in Sexual
Initiation—­Sexual Ignorance in Men—­The Husband’s Education for
Marriage—­The Injury Done by the Ignorance of Husbands—­The Physical and
Mental Results of Unskilful Coitus—­Women Understand the Art of Love
Better Than Men—­Ancient and Modern Opinions Concerning Frequency of
Coitus—­Variation in Sexual Capacity—­The Sexual Appetite—­The Art of Love
Based on the Biological Facts of Courtship—­The Art of Pleasing Women—­The
Lover Compared to the Musician—­The Proposal as a Part of
Courtship—­Divination in the Art of Love—­The Importance of the
Preliminaries in Courtship—­The Unskilful Husband Frequently the Cause of
the Frigid Wife—­The Difficulty of Courtship—­Simultaneous Orgasm—­The
Evils of Incomplete Gratification in Women—­Coitus Interruptus—­Coitus
Reservatus—­The Human Method of Coitus—­Variations in Coitus—­Posture in
Coitus—­The Best Time for Coitus—­The Influence of Coitus in Marriage—­The
Advantages of Absence in Marriage—­The Risks of Absence—­Jealousy—­The
Primitive Function of Jealousy—­Its Predominance Among Animals, Savages,
etc, and in Pathological States—­An Anti-Social Emotion—­Jealousy
Incompatible With the Progress of Civilization—­The Possibility of Loving
More Than One Person at a Time—­Platonic Friendship—­The Conditions Which
Make It Possible—­The Maternal Element in Woman’s Love—­The Final
Development of Conjugal Love—­The Problem of Love One of the Greatest Of
Social Questions.

CHAPTER XII.

The science of procreation.

The Relationship of the Science of Procreation to the Art of Love—­Sexual Desire and Sexual Pleasure as the Conditions of Conception—­Reproduction Formerly Left to Caprice and Lust—­The Question of Procreation as a Religious Question—­The Creed of Eugenics—­Ellen Key and Sir Francis Galton—­Our Debt to Posterity—­The Problem of Replacing Natural Selection—­The Origin and Development of Eugenics—­The General Acceptance of Eugenical Principles To-day—­The Two Channels by Which Eugenical Principles are Becoming Embodied in Practice—­The Sense of Sexual Responsibility in Women—­The Rejection of Compulsory Motherhood—­The Privilege of Voluntary Motherhood—­Causes of the Degradation of Motherhood—­The Control of Conception—­Now Practiced by the Majority of the Population in Civilized Countries—­The Fallacy of “Racial Suicide”—­Are Large Families a Stigma of Degeneration?—­Procreative Control the Outcome of Natural and Civilized Progress—­The Growth of Neo-Malthusian Beliefs and Practices—­Facultative Sterility as Distinct from Neo-Malthusianism—­The