Woman, her sex and love life

by William J. Robinson

Hardcover, 1939

Status

Available

Call number

7.3 R6 wo 1939

Collection

Publication

New York: Eugenics Publishing Company, 1934

Description

Excerpt from Woman: Her Sex and Love Life As in all my other books I have used plain, honest English. Not any plainer than necessary, but plain enough to avoid obscurity and misconception. Science and art are both necessary to human happiness. This is not the place to discuss the rela tive importance of the two. And, while I have no patience with art-for-art's-sake, I recognize that the scientist can not be put into a narrow channel and ordered to go into a certain definite direction. Seien tific investigations which seemed aimless and useless have sometimes led to highly important results, and I would not disparage science for its own sake. It has its uses. Nevertheless I personally have no use for it. To me everything must have a direct human purpose, a definite human application. When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettante ism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no rela tion to human happiness, and to prate of self-satis faction and self-expression. One can have all the self-expression one wants while doing useful work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member MerryMary
This was an amazing read. I bought it for the humor factor. I was sure a sex book from the 20s would be amusing. However, I found it to be both enlightening and exasperating. The author (who was later connected with the early American porn industry!) advocates sex information for women - far beyond
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what was normal for the time. He spends a large part of the book explaining the female anatomy and the various changes brought by puberty and pregnancy.

It is mostly in the discussion of venereal diseases and male/female relationships that my blood pressure starts rising. Robinson spends a great deal of time discussing who - in his opinion - should and should not be "allowed" to marry. He repeatedly states that poor people are less "civilized" and less sensitive to finer things. To his credit, he explodes many myths, like that of "maternal impressions" (that children's birth defects are caused by trauma to the mother). But then he advocates forgiving male straying because such behavior is expected by males.

He also has a full complement of 1920's bigotry. "...who became as unreasonable as a child and as jealous as any unlettered Sicilian woman ever was."
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Language

Original publication date

1917

Physical description

411 p.; 21 cm

Local notes

ARCHIVES. This item is non-circulating.

Call number

7.3 R6 wo 1939
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