In "The New Horizon in Love and Life," Mrs. Havelock Ellis writes "It
is more than probable that the evolved relationship of the future will
be monogamy--but a monogamy wider and more beautiful than the present
caricature of it, as the sea is wider and more delicious than a duck
pond.
"The lifelong, faithful love of one man for one woman is the exception
and not the rule. The law of affinity being as subtle and as
indefinable as the law of gravitation, we may, by and by, find it worth
while to give it its complete opportunity in those realms where it can
manifest itself most potently. We are on the wrong bridge if we imagine
that laxity is the easiest way to freedom. The bridge which will bear
us must be strong enough to support us while experiments are tried.
"What is the gospel in this matter of sexual emancipation for men
and women in the new world where love has actually come of age? It
is surely the complete economic independence of women. While man
is economically free and woman still a slave, either physically,
financially or spiritually, mankind as a whole must act as if
blindness, maimness and deafness constituted health.
"The complete independence of husband and wife is the gospel of the new
era of marriage. This is the actual matter which philosophers, parents,
philanthropists and pioneers so often ignore when teaching the new
ideals of morality. When a woman is kept by a man she is not a free
individuality either as child, wife or mistress. Imagine for a moment
a man kept by a woman as women are kept by men and a sense of humor
illuminates the absurdity of the situation between any class of evolved
human beings."
As a clever patient of mine whom I regret I cannot mention by name said
one day: "married happiness, to be lasting, requires more than sexual
cooperation of both mates, it must resolve itself into cooperative
egotism."
[Footnote 1: See Mary Sinclair's "The Life and Death of Harriet Freau."]
[Footnote 2: Kings. I, 1-2.]
[Footnote 3: Birth Control Review, April 1922.]
THE END
INDEX
Abortion, 295
Active homosexuals, 167
Adler, 32, 41, 71, 115, 130, 132, 141, 142, 170, 192, 211, 225
Adrenals, 230
Adrenin, 6
Algolagnists, 188
Androgynes, 160
Animal love fights, 196
"Animal" types, 87
Antifetishes, 24, 25
Aphrodite, 195
Aristotle, 207
Atavism, 194
Attractiveness, 317
Auditory sensations, 57
Baby talk, 57
Balzac, 318
Basogas, 43
Bees in love, 52, 53
Beresford, 267
Berman, Dr. Louis, 228
Bernhardt, Sarah, 100
Bloch, Iwan, 88
Blood relations, 47
Bonaparte, 192
Bored wives, 89
Boredom, 212
Bottle-fed men, 20
Bovary, Madame, 91
Brain, cells, 16
function of the, 7
operations on a dog's, 13
Breast-fed men, 20
Brothers and sisters, 78
Brutus, 82
Business women, 279
Cæsar, 180
Calf love, 54
Cannon, 10
Chicago Vice Report, 108
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