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Why Sex Knowledge is of Paramount Importance to Girls and Women--Reasons Why a Misstep in a Girl Has More Serious Consequences than a Misstep in a Boy--The Place Love Occupies in Woman's Life--Woman's Physical Disabilities.

The Internal Sex Organs--The Ovaries--The Fallopian Tubes--The Uterus--The Divisions of the Uterus--Anteversion, Anteflexion, Retroversion, Retroflexion, of the Uterus--Endometritis--The Vagina--The Hymen--Imperforate Hymen--The External Genitals--The Vulva, Labia Majora, Labia Minora, the Mons Veneris, the Clitoris, the Urethra--The Breasts--The Pelvis--The Difference Between the Male and Female Pelvis.

Function of the Ovaries--Internal Secretion of the Ovaries-- Function of the Internal Secretion--Number of Ova in the Ovaries--The Graafian Follicles--Ovulation--Corpora Lutea--Function of the Fallopian Tubes--Function of the Vagina--Functions of the Vulva, Clitoris and Mons Veneris-- Function of the Breasts--Besides Secreting Milk Breast Has Sexual Function--The Orgasm--Pollutions in Women--Secondary Sex Characters--Differences Between Woman and Man.

Universality of the Sex Instinct--Not Responsible for Our Thoughts and Feelings.

Physical Changes in Puberty--Physical Changes in the Genital Organs and in the Rest of the Body--Psychic Changes--Puberty and Adolescence--Nubility.

Definition of Menstruation--Where Menstrual Blood Comes From--Age of Menstruation--Age of Cessation of Menstruation--Duration--Amount--Regularity and Irregularity.

Disorders of Menstruation--Menorrhagia--Metrorrhagia-- Amenorrhea--Vicarious Menstruation--Dysmenorrhea of Organic and of Nervous Origin.

Lack of Cleanliness During Menstrual Period--Superstitious Beliefs--Hygiene of Menstruation.

Fecundation or Fertilization--Process of Fecundation--When the Ovum Matures--Fate of Ovum When no Intercourse Has Taken Place--Entrance of Spermatozoa as Result of Intercourse--The Spermatozoa in Search of the Ovum--Rapidity of Movements of Spermatozoa--Absorption of Spermatozo?n by Ovum--Activity of Impregnated Ovum in Finding Place to Develop--Pregnancy in the Fallopian Tube and Its Dangers--Twin Pregnancy--Passivity of Ovum and Activity of Spermatozo?n Foretell the Contrasting R?les of the Man and the Woman Throughout Life.

Period of Pregnancy in Human Female--Physiologic Process of Pregnancy--Growth of Embryo from Moment of Conception-- Pregnant Woman Provides Nourishment for Two--Her Excreting Organs Must Work for Two.

Smooth Course of Pregnancy in Some Women--Pregnancy and Parturition May be Made Normal Processes Through Education in True Hygiene--Morning Sickness and Its Treatment--Necessity for Medical Advice in Pernicious Vomiting--Anorexia--Bulimia-- Aversion Towards Certain Foods--Peculiar Cravings--Tendency to Constipation Aggravated by Pregnancy--Dietary Measures in Constipation--Rectal Injections in Constipation--Laxatives-- Cause of Frequent Desire to Urinate During First Two or Three and Last Months of Pregnancy--Treatment of Frequent Urination-- Cause of Piles During Pregnancy and Their Treatment--Cause of Itching of External Genitals During Pregnancy and Treatment-- Cause of Varicose Veins and Treatment--Liver Spots.

Necessity for the Pregnant Woman Immediately Placing Herself Under Care of Physician and Remaining Under His Care During Entire Period.

Approximately Correct Measurements and Weight of Fetus at End of Each Month of Pregnancy.

How the Afterbirth Develops--Bag of Waters--Umbilical Cord--The Navel--Fetus Nourished by Absorption--Fetus Breathes by Aid of Placenta--No Nervous Connection Between Mother and Child.

No Perfect Substitute for Mother's Milk--When Nursing is Injurious to Mother and Child--Modified Milk--Artificial Foods--Care Essential in Selecting Wet Nurse--Suckling Child Benefits Mother--Reciprocal Affection Strengthened by Nursing--Sexual Feelings While Nursing--Alcoholics are Injurious--Attention to Condition of Nipples During Pregnancy Essential--Treatment of Sunken Nipples--Treatment of Tender Nipples--Treatment of Cracked Nipples--How to Stop the Secretion of Milk When Necessary--Menstruation While Nursing--Pregnancy in the Nursing Woman.

Definition of Word Abortion--Definition of Word Miscarriage-- Spontaneous Abortion--Induced Abortion--Therapeutic Abortion-- Criminal Abortion--Missed Abortion--Habitual Abortion-- Syphilis as Cause of Abortion and Miscarriage--Dangers of Abortion--Abortion an Evil.

Meaning of the Term--Misleading Information by Quasi-Scientists--Exaggerated Ideas Regarding Prenatal Care--Nervous Connection Between Mother and Child--Cases Under Author's Observation--Effects on Offspring--Advice to Pregnant Women--Germ-plasm of Chronic Alcoholic--A Glass of Wine and the Spermatozoa--False Statements--Cases of Violence and Accidents During Pregnancy.

Time of Menopause--Cause of Suffering During Menopause-- Reproductive Function and Sexual Function Not Synonymous-- Increased Libido During Menopause--Change of Life in Men.

Definition of Masturbation--Its Injurious Effects in Girls as Compared with Boys--Married Life of the Girl Masturbator-- Necessity for Change in Injurious Attitude of Parents who Discover the Habit--Common-sense Treatment of the Habit-- How to Prevent Formation of Habit--Parents' Advice to Children--Hot Baths as Factor in Masturbation--Other Physical Factors--Mental Masturbation and Its Effects.

Misconception Regarding the Meaning of the Term "Leucorrhea"--A Common Complaint--Severe Cases--Reasons for Resistance to Treatment--Proper Local Treatment of the Disorder--Sterility Due to Leucorrhea--Causes of Leucorrhea--Tonic Medicines--Local Treatment--Formulae for Douching.

Derivation of Word "Venereal"--Three Venereal Diseases-- Innocent Contraction of Syphilis Through Various Objects-- The Hygienic Elimination of Common Sources of Venereal Infection--Measures for Prevention After Sexual Relations.

Former Ban on Discussion of Venereal Disease and Its Evil Results--Present Reprehensible Exaggerations of Extent of Venereal Disease--Erroneous and Ridiculous Statements of "Reformers"--Senseless Fear of Marriage in Girls Due to Lurid Exaggerations--Study by Woman Psychologist Reveals Harmful Results of Exaggerated Statements--Truth in Regard to Percentage of Men Afflicted with Venereal Disease.

Source of Gonorrhea--Mucous Membrane of Genital Organs and of Eye Principal Seats of Disease--Symptoms in Men and in Women--Vagina Seldom Attacked in Adults--Nobody Inherits Gonorrhea--Ophthalmia Neonatorum--Differences of Course of Disease in Men and Women--Gonorrhea Less Painful in Women--Symptoms not Suspected by Woman--Necessity for the Woman Consulting a Physician--Self-treatment When Woman Cannot Consult Physician--Formulae for Injections.

Former Causes of Vulvovaginitis in Little Girls--Discharge Chief Symptom--Evil Results of Vulvovaginitis--Psychic Results of Treatment--Effects in Hastening Sexual Maturity--Vulvovaginitis a Cause of Permanent Sterility--Measures to Prevent the Disease--Toilet Seats and Vulvovaginitis.

Syphilis Due to Germ--Syphilis a Constitutional Disease-- Primary Lesion--Incubation Period--Roseola--Primary Stage--Secondary Stage--Mucous Patches--Tertiary Stage--Gumma--Hereditary Nature of Syphilis--Milder Course in Women Than in Men--Obscure Symptoms in Syphilis-- Necessity for Examination by Physician--Locomotor Ataxia-- Softening of the Brain--Chancroids.

Gonorrhea May Be Practically Cured in Every Case in Man--Extensive Gonorrheal Infection in Woman Difficult to Cure--Positive Cure in Syphilis Impossible to Guarantee.

Necessity for Douching Before and After Suspicious Intercourse--Formulae for Douches--Precautions Against Non-venereal Sources of Infection--Syphilis Transmitted by Dentist's Instruments--Manicurists and Syphilis--Promiscuous Kissing a Source of Syphilitic Infection.

Alcoholic Indulgence and Venereal Disease--A Champagne Dinner and Syphilis--Percentage of Cases of Venereal Infection Due to Alcohol--Artificial Stimulation of Sex Instinct in Man and in Woman--Reckless Sexual Indulgence Due to Alcohol--Alcohol as an Aid to Seduction.

Decision of Physician Regarding Marriage of Patients Infected with Gonorrhea or Syphilis--Advisability of Certificate of Freedom from Transmissible Disease--Premarital Examination as a Universal Custom--When a Man Who Had Gonorrhea May Be Allowed to Marry--When a Woman Who Had Gonorrhea May be Allowed to Marry--Antisepsis Before Coitus--Question of Sterility in the Man Who Has Had Gonorrhea Easily Answered--Impossibility of Determining Whether the Woman is Fertile or Not.

Rules for Permitting a Syphilitic Patient to Marry--Rules More Severe in Cases Where Children Are Desired--Where Both Partners Are Syphilitic--Danger of Paresis in Some Syphilitic Patients--A Case in the Author's Practice.

Knowledge of Prevention of Conception Essential--Misapprehensions Concerning Birth-control Propaganda--Modern Contraceptives Not Injurious to Health--Imperfection of Contraceptive Measures Due to Secrecy--Prevention of Conception and Abortion Radically Different--More Marriages Consummated if Birth-control Information were Legally Obtainable--Demand for Prostitution Would be Curtailed--Venereal Disease Due to Lack of Knowledge--Another Phase of the Birth-control Problem--Knowledge of Contraceptive Methods Where There Was a Taint of Insanity, and the Happy Results.

The Irresistible Attraction of the Young Girl for the Male--The Unprotected Girl's Temptations--Some Men Who Will Pester the Young Girl--Risk of Venereal Infection--Danger of Impregnation--Use of Contraceptives by the Unmarried Woman May Not Always Be Relied Upon--Nature of Men who Seduce Girls--Exceptions--Illegitimate Motherhood--Difficulties in the Way of Illegitimate Mother Who Must Earn Her Living--The Child of the Foundling Asylum--Social Attitude Towards Illegitimacy Responsible for Abortion Evil--Dangers of Abortion--The Girl Who Has Lost Her Virginity.

Attitude of Parents Towards Unfortunate Girl--The Case of Edith and What Her Father Did--The Pitiful Cases of Mary B. and Bridget C.

Heightened Sexual Appetite of Many Women During Menstruation-- Sexual Intercourse During Menstrual Period--When Intercourse May be Permitted--Injection Before Coitus During Menstruation--Fallacy of Ancient Idea of Injuriousness.

Complete Abstinence During Pregnancy--Bad Results of Complete Abstinence--Intensity of Relations During First Four Months-- Intercourse During Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Months-- Intercourse During Eighth and Ninth Months--Abstinence After Birth of Child.

Belief in Sexual Intercourse for Propagation Only--What Such Practice Would Lead to--Nature and the Sex-fanatics--Sexual Desire in Woman After Menopause--Sex Instinct of Sterile Men and Women--Sex Instinct Has Other High Purposes.

Vaginismus--Dyspareunia--Difference Between Vaginismus and Dyspareunia--Adherent Clitoris a Cause of Masturbation and Convulsions.

Definition of Sterility--Husband Should First be Examined-- One-child Sterility--The Fertile Woman--Salpingitis as a Cause of Sterility--Leucorrhea and Sterility--Displacement of Uterus and Sterility--Closure of Neck of Womb and Sterility--Sterility and Constitutional Disease--Treatment of Sterility.

XL. THE HYMEN 294

Difference Between Chastity and Virginity--Worship of Intact Hymen--Sacrificing Hymen Sometimes Essential for Health of the Girl--Certificate from Physician who has Ruptured Hymen.

Suppression of Orgasm by Woman to Prevent Impregnation--Bad Results of Suppression by the Woman--Orgasm: Relation of to Impregnation--A Hypothesis--A Fanciful Hypothesis--Why Passionate Women Frequently Fail to Become Mothers--Advice to Passionate Women who Desire to Conceive.

Meaning of Term Frigidity--Types of Frigidity--Large Percentage of Frigid Women--Repression of Sexual Manifestations and Frigidity--Frigidity and Masturbation--Frigidity and Sexual Weakness of Husband--Frigidity and Dislike of Husband--Organic Causes of Frigidity--A Frigid Woman May Become Passionate-- Treatment of Frigidity.

Advice to Frigid Women--Attitude of Different Men Towards Frigid Wives--Orgasm a Subjective Feeling--A Justifiable Innocent Deception--The Case of a Demi-Mondaine.

Definition of Rape--Age of Consent--Unanimous Opinion of Experts--Exceptional Cases--False Accusation of Rape Due to Perversion--Erotic Dreams Under Anesthesia Causing Accusations Against Doctors and Dentists.

Chastity--Double Standard of Morality--Attempt to Abolish Double Standard--Late Marriages and Chastity in Men--Harmful Advice Given to Young Women--Chastity in Men Not Always Due to Moral Principles--Chaste Men and Satisfactory Husbands--A Statement by Professor Freud--A Statement by Professor Michels--What a Girl has a Right to Demand of Her Future Husband--Three Cases Showing Disastrous Effects of Wrong Teachings.

Seemingly Contradictory Statements--Faulty Interpretations of Words Sexual Instinct and Love--Difference in Manifestations of Male and Female Sexual Instincts--Man's Sex Instinct Grosser Than Woman's--Awakening of Sexual Desire in the Boy and in the Girl--Woman's Desire for Caresses--Man's Main Desire for Sexual Relations--Normal Sex Relations as Means of Holding a Man--A Physiological Reason Why Man is Held--Man and Physical Love--Woman and Spiritual Love--Preliminaries of Sexual Intercourse in Men and Women--Physical Attributes-- Mental and Spiritual Qualities--Difference Between Love and "Being in Love"--Love as a Stimulus to Man--When the Man Loves--When the Woman Loves--Man's More Engrossing Interests--Lovemaking Irksome to Man--Man's Polygamous Tendencies--Woman Single-affectioned in Her Sex and Love Life--Man and Woman Biologically Different.

Wide-spread Belief in Maternal Impressions--No Single Well-authenticated Case of Maternal Impression--Birth of Monstrosities--Ridiculous Examples Given by Physicians-- So-called Shock Often a Product of Mother's Imagination-- Four Cases of Alleged Maternal Impressions--Mother's Health During Pregnancy May Have Effect Upon Child's General Health.

Marriage as an Ideal Institution--Monogamic Marriage--Some Reasons for Husbands' Deviations--Importance of First Few Weeks of Married Life--Necessity for Understanding at Beginning--Preventing and Breaking Habits--The Wife's Individuality--Husbands Who are Childish, Not Vicious-- Wife's Interest in Husband's Affairs--The "Slob" Husband-- The Well-groomed Husband--Bad Odor from the Mouth--Odors from Other Parts of the Body--Treatment for Bad Odor from Perspiration--A Beneficial Powder--Advice Regarding Flirting--Dainty Underwear--Fine External Clothes and Cheap and Soiled Underwear--Delicate Adjustments of Sex Act Required with Some Men--Wife Who Discusses Her Husband's Foibles--A Professional Secret--A Case of Temporary Impotence--The Wife's Indiscretion--The Disastrous Result--A Big Stomach--The Wife's Attitude Towards the Marital Relation--Behavior Preliminary to and During the Act-- Congenital Frigidity--Prudish and Vicious Ideas About the Sex Act--Sexual Intercourse for Procreative Purposes Only--Fear of Pregnancy on the Part of the Wife--The Remedy--Other Causes--Wife who Makes too Frequent Demands-- Sacrificing the Future to the Present--Esthetic Considerations.

A Rational Divorce System--Storms and Squalls--Two Sides of the Divorce Question--Outside Help and Marital Tangles--A Husband who was a Paragon of Virtue--The Case of the Sweet Wife--The Proper Untangling of Domestic Tangles.

L. WHAT IS LOVE? 361

Is Love

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