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CONTENTS


CHAPTER I
The reproduction of living beings—History of the germ—Cell-division—Parthenogenesis—Conjugation—Embryonic development—Difference of sexes—Castration—Hermaphrodism—Heredity—Blastophthoria 6
CHAPTER II
The evolution or descent of living beings 39
CHAPTER III
Natural conditions of mechanism of human coitus—Pregnancy—Correlative sexual characters 49
CHAPTER IV
The sexual appetite in man and woman—Flirtation 72
CHAPTER V
Love and other irradiations of the sexual appetite in the human mind—Psychic irradiations of love in man: Procreative instinct, jealousy, sexual braggardism, pornographic spirit, sexual hypocrisy, prudery and modesty, old bachelors—Psychic irradiations of love in woman: Old maids, passiveness and desire, abandon and exaltation, desire for domination, petticoat government, desire of maternity and maternal love, routine and infatuation, jealousy, dissimulation, coquetry, prudery and modesty—Fetichism and anti-fetichism—Psychological relations of love to religion 104