THE SEXUAL LIFE IN ITS PUBLIC RELATIONSHIPS (SEXUAL QUACKERY, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND SCANDALS) 719 CHAPTER XXX PORNOGRAPHIC LITERATURE AND ART 729 CHAPTER XXXI LOVE IN POLITE (BELLETRISTIC) LITERATURE 741 CHAPTER XXXII THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE OF THE SEXUAL LIFE 753 CHAPTER XXXIII THE OUTLOOK 763 INDEX OF NAMES 767 INDEX OF SUBJECTS 778 ERRATA Page 189, note, line 2, _for_ “Classes in Antiquity,” _read_ “Age Classes.” Page 361, line 1, _for_ “=inflammation of the retina=,” _read_ “=syphilitic iritis=.” Page 361, line 2, _for_ “retina,” _read_ “iris.” Page 446, lines 6 and 7 from foot, _for_ “=reflection=,” _read_ “=reflective=.” Page 481, note 493, line 5, _for_ “Classes of Antiquity,” _read_ “Age Classes.” Page 485, line 17, _for_ “Classes of Antiquity,” _read_ “Age Classes.” Page 548, note 577, line 1, _for_ “Classes in Antiquity,” _read_ “Age Classes.” Page 747, lines 21 and 24, _for_ “divorce,” _read_ “adultery.” INTRODUCTION “_It seems at first sight as if Nature had endowed man with the procreative impulse solely with a view to the preservation of the species, and regardless of the individual; and yet it is undeniable that in the high estimation of this impulse the individual was not forgotten._” (“On the Art of Attaining an Advanced Age,” vol. i., p. 2; Berlin, 1813). CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION The two constituents of modern love -- The purposes of the species and the purposes of the individual -- Insufficiency of the former for the understanding of love -- The individualization of love through the process of civilization -- The organic interconnexion between the bodily and the mental manifestations of love -- Possibilities of future development -- Victory of the love of civilized man over the elemental force of the sexual impulse -- Our own time a turning-point in the history of love. INTRODUCTION The sexuality of the modern civilized man--the sum, that is to say, of the phenomena of sexual love dependent upon and associated with the sexual impulse--is the result of a process of development lasting many thousands of years. Therein, as in a mirror, we may see an accurate reflection of all the phases of the bodily and mental history of the human race. Anyone who wishes to understand modern love in all its complexity must, in the first place, succeed in informing himself, not merely regarding the first foundations of the feeling of love in the grey primeval age, but, in addition, as to the manner in which that feeling has been transformed and enriched in the course of the history of civilization. For modern love is a complex of two constituents.