It would seem that it is only with the introduction of the patriarchal system that men came to desire virginity in their brides. Where the matrilineal system exists young women sow their wild oats as freely as young men. Love ad a relation between men and women was ruined by …
As soon as the father recognises that the child is, as the Bible says, his 'seed', his sentiment towards the child js reinforced by two factors, the love of power and the desire to survive death. The achievements of a man's descendants are in a sense his achievements, and their …
The only act in this whole realm which can be called instinctive in the strict psychological sense is the act of sucking in infancy.
I do not know how it may be with savages, but civilised people have to learn to perform the sexual act. It is not uncommon …
The primary motive of sexual ethics as they have existed in Western civilisation since pre-Christian times has been to secure that degree of female virtue without which the patriarchal family becomes impossible, since paternity is uncertain.