The question of love and pain is mainly a question of emotional dynamics.

In other countries, it is the rule for girls, before they are registered as prostitutes, to state the reasons for which they desire to enter the career.

The Arab physicians, who carried on the traditions of Greek medicine, appear to have said nothing new about hysteria, and possibly had little knowledge of it.

There is some interest in noting the signs of loss of virginity chiefly relied upon by ancient authors.

"man uses perfumes to impart energy to his passion,"

A special and detailed study of the normal characters of the sexual impulse in men seems unnecessary.

The decay of brothels, whether as cause or as effect, has been associated with a vast increase of prostitution outside brothels.

As to whether masturbation is more common in one sex than the other, there have been considerable differences of opinion.

Among the ordinary civilized population in Europe the sexual influences of smell play a smaller and yet not altogether negligible part.

We may trace the same influence subtly lurking even in the most would-be scientific statements of anthropologists and physicians today.

There is no more subtle poison than that of syphilis.

All muscular action being stimulated by rhythm, in its simple form or in its more developed form as music, rhythm is a stimulant to work.

The seeming reluctance of the female is not intended to inhibit sexual activity either in the male or in herself, but to increase it in both.

A man who marries for money or for ambition is departing from the biological and moral ends of marriage.

Vision is the main channel by which man receives his impressions. To a large extent it has slowly superseded all the other senses.

Women have no external generative organ like the phallus to play a large part in life as a sacred symbol.

Kisch refers to the analogous fact that the first occurrence of menstruation is favored by sexual excitement.

Beauty is thus the chief, but it is not the sole, element in the sexual appeal of vision.

"The work that I was born to do is done," a great poet wrote when at last he had completed his task.

Two facts render it thus possible to deal more exactly with the influence of vision on sexual selection than with the influence of the other senses.