Private Sex Advice to Women: For Young Wives and those who Expect to be MarriedArmitage, Robert B.
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Private Sex Advice to Women: For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married
Armitage, Robert B.
Marriage; Sex instruction; Women -- Health and hygiene
Count Tolstoi said on this subject: "The difference in organization
between man and woman is not only physiological but extends also into
other and moral characteristics, such as go to make manhood in man, and
womanhood (or femininity) in woman. The attraction between the sexes is
based not merely upon the yearning for physical union, but likewise upon
that reciprocal attraction exerted by the contrasting qualities of the
sexes each upon the other, manhood upon womanhood, and womanhood upon
manhood. The one sex endeavors to complement itself with the other, and
therefore the attraction between the sexes demands a union of spirit
precisely identical with the physical union.
"The tendency toward physical and spiritual union forms two phases of
manifestation of one and the same fountain-head of desire, and they bear
such intimate relations to each other that the gratification of the one
inclination inevitably weakens the other. So far as the yearning for
spiritual union is satisfied, to that extent the yearning for physical
union is diminished or entirely destroyed; and, vice versa, the
gratification of the physical desire weakens or destroys the spiritual.
And, consequently, the attraction between the sexes is not only physical
affinity leading to procreation, but is also the attraction of opposites
for one another, capable of assuming the form of the most spiritual
union in thought only, or of the most animal union, causing the
propagation of children, and all those varied degrees of relationship
between the one and the other. The question of upon which footing the
relation between the sexes is to be established and maintained, is
settled by deciding what method of union is regarded at any given time,
or for all time, as good, proper, and therefore desirable. * * *
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