A PLEA FOR MONOGAMY A PLEA FOR MONOGAMY BY WILFRID LAY, Ph.D. Author of _Man’s Unconscious Conflict_, _The Child’s Unconscious Mind_, _Man’s Unconscious Passion_ and _Man’s Unconscious Spirit_. [Illustration] _O heart! Oh blood that freezes, blood that burns!_ _Earth’s returns_ _For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin!_ _Shut them in,_ _With their triumphs and their glories and the rest,_ _Love is best!_ —Browning: Love Among the Ruins. BONI AND LIVERIGHT PUBLISHERS NEW YORK _Copyright, 1923, by_ BONI AND LIVERIGHT, INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA First Printing, June, 1923 Second Printing, November, 1923 Third Printing November, 1924 Fourth Printing, February, 1925 Fifth Printing, June, 1925 Sixth Printing, August, 1925 Seventh Printing, January, 1926 UXORI AMANDISSIMAE CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. TRUE CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE 1 § 1 Disproportionate emotional and intellectual development, p. 1; § 2 Archaic emotions in marriage, p. 2; § 3 Charity, p. 3; § 4 The sexual crisis, p. 4; § 5 Man’s erotic dominance, p. 6; § 6 Misapprehension about psychoanalysis, p. 7; § 7 Polymorphous-perverse, p. 11; § 8 Marriage the only cure, p. 12; § 9 The normal sex life, p. 12; § 10 The true sense of “erotic,” p. 13. II. MODERN EMOTIONAL UNREST 16