Sex Problems in Worry and Work (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1915 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII CHARACTER AND SEXUALITY A Woman professor of physiology in the Michigan State Normal College, according to press reports, has stated: "Children of both sexes and adults as well should bathe and dress together, freely, frankly and openly without prudish apology." Any person who will make the above statement has no distinct character--I use the term in its broad sense, not in the sense relating to morality, honesty, purity, etc.--hence there can be no distinct sexuality controlling such an individual. Will any full-blooded man or woman believe for a moment that such a social condition can be adopted without a recession of all sex morality and health? Never mind about those customs in the Orient, unless you believe that we should adopt the other customs that go with promiscuous bathing. There is a class of women who claim biologic equality of the sexes. Now, perhaps an equality may exist or be brought about in social, political or ethical matters, but it cannot be 178 scientifically asserted that there is biologic equality of the sexes. Sex is clearly a characteristic of the organism as a whole, and pervades every tissue--penetrates every cell and fiber of the body. This is a scientific fact we cannot ignore nor dispute. Moreover, sex is a racial asset, and its conservation a racial problem. Sex and its qualitative element, also its degree of strength or weakness, has a tremendous effect upon character in both sexes. In women its variations account for many troublesome ideas and actions. The potentiality of character is in the child from the beginning of life; the degree of sexuality is determined from its early formation, and this sexuality is the mold for character. The fact I wish to drive home is that sexuality makes for decency and morality, ...