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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.
XXX. MARRIAGE AND SYPHILIS 195
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.
XXXI. WHO MAY AND WHO MAY NOT MARRY 200
The Physician Often Consulted as to Advisability of Marriage-- Venereal Disease the Most Common Question--Tuberculosis-- Sexual Appetite of Tubercular Patients--Effect of Pregnancy Contraceptive Knowledge for Tubercular Wife--Heart Disease-- Serious Bar to Marriage--Influence of Sexual Intercourse-- Cancer--Fear of Hereditary Transmission--Exophthalmic Goiter--Most Frequent in Women--Simple Goiter--Exceptions to Rule--Obesity--Family History--Obesity and Stoutness Not Synonymous--Arteriosclerosis--Danger in Sexual Act--Gout-- Real Causes of Gout--Mumps--Parotid Glands and Sex Organs-- Mumps and Sterility--O?phoritis Due to Mumps--Hemophilia-- Hemophilic Sons May Marry--Hemophilic Daughters May Not Marry--Anemia--Chlorosis--Epilepsy--Hysteria--Symptoms of Hysteria--Marriage of Hysterical Women--Alcoholism-- Effect on Offspring--Alcoholics and Impotence-- Feeblemindedness--Evil Effects on Offspring--Sterilization of Feebleminded Only Preventive--Insanity--Functional Insanity--Organic Insanity--Hereditary Transmissibility of Insanity--Fear Resulting in Insanity--Environment versus Heredity in Insanity--Neurosis--Neurasthenia-- Psychasthenia--Neuropathy--Psychopathy--Nervous Conditions and Genius--Sexual Impotence and Genius--Drug Addiction--External Causes--Consanguineous Marriages--When Consanguineous Marriages are Advisable--Offspring of Consanguineous Marriages--Homosexuality--Homosexuals Often Ignorant of Their Condition--Sexual Repression and Homosexuality--Sadism and Divorce--Masochism--Sexual Impotence and Marriage--Effect Upon the Wife--Frigidity--Marital Relations and Frigid Woman--Excessive Libido and Marriage--Excessive Demands Upon Wife--Satyriasis--The Excessively Libidinous Wife--Nymphomania--Treatment--Harelip--Myopia--Astigmatism-- Premature Baldness--Criminality--Crime as Result of Environment--Legal and Moral Crime--Ancestral Criminality and Marriage--Rules of Heredity--Pauperism--Difference Between Pauperism and Poverty.
XXXII. BIRTH CONTROL OR THE LIMITATION OF OFFSPRING 244
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.
XXXIII. ADVICE TO GIRLS APPROACHING THE THRESHOLD OF WOMANHOOD 261
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.
XXXIV. ADVICE TO PARENTS OF UNFORTUNATE GIRLS 273
Attitude of Parents Towards Unfortunate Girl--The Case of Edith and What Her Father Did--The Pitiful Cases of Mary B. and Bridget C.
XXXV. SEXUAL RELATIONS DURING MENSTRUATION 279
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.
XXXVI. SEXUAL INTERCOURSE DURING PREGNANCY 282
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.
XXXVII. SEXUAL INTERCOURSE FOR PROPAGATION ONLY 284
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.
XXXVIII. VAGINISMUS 288
Vaginismus--Dyspareunia--Difference Between Vaginismus and Dyspareunia--Adherent Clitoris a Cause of Masturbation and Convulsions.
XXXIX. STERILITY 291
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.
XLI. IS THE ORGASM NECESSARY FOR IMPREGNATION? 297
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.
XLII. FRIGIDITY IN WOMEN 301
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.
XLIII. ADVICE TO FRIGID WOMEN, PARTICULARLY WIVES 304
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.
XLIV. RAPE 308
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.
XLV. THE SINGLE STANDARD OF SEXUAL MORALITY 311
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