Woman : $b a vindicationLudovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Philosophy
Woman : $b a vindication
Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Sex; Women
PASSION, does not grin and grimace, 221;
never directs negative people, 227;
euphemisms for lack of, 228
PAUL, ST., hostile to Life, 9, 11;
altogether negative, 13;
immoral because hostile to Life, 62
PENELOPE, her undesirability probably the cause of her
fidelity, 190 _n._;
admiration of, 192 _n._
PESSIMISM, the, of the positive English girl, 105
PHILOSOPHER, the positive, deeply interested in the child, 14, 15
POSITIVENESS, defined, 13;
the seriousness of, 16, 17;
forgets all that mars interest in life, 17;
rarely has a guilty conscience, 18;
has no fear of pain, 18
PRAYER BOOK, its wisdom in the Marriage Service, 107;
its teaching regarding marriage, 138
PREHENSION, a male quality, 120;
modern Englishman lacking in, 121
PRIG, woman’s epithet for the man of insight, 217
PROCREATION, improper and impious for cold-blooded Puritans, 34
PROFESSIONAL classes, reasons for high percentage of divorce in
the, 212
PROSTITUTE, the, loved by degenerates and anarchists, 71;
the only kind of woman to whom man is everything, 73;
driven by unfortunate circumstances to misunderstand her true
needs, 76;
the sadness of her lot not due to its moral turpitude, 254;
her childless fate her severest penalty, 255 _n._;
not so by nature but made so by circumstances, 255
PROSTITUTION, an evil in Western civilization because it is made
so, 249;
sexual, not necessarily the worst, 250;
most degraded in England, 251;
hypocritical attitude towards, in England, 252;
Lecky on, 252 _n._;
as a school of initiation into sex, 253;
necessity of placing, on a sound and more humane basis, 254
PURITAN, the, his implacable loathing of sex, 5;
and of all bodily matters, 8;
immoral because hostile to Life, 62;
by associating sexual pleasure with marriage only, responsible for
_mésalliances_, 134;
his outcry against wise marital infidelity, 166
PURITANISM, has reduced men to nincompoops, 33;
claims of, now heard because of increase in repulsive and botched
people, 35;
vitality impaired by depressing foods and drinks introduced by, 53;
affected men more deeply than women in England, 94, 95;
ruins the sexual life of the positive couple, 153;
has destroyed the male man in England, 161
PURITY, true and false, 100;
the only true, is the outcome of fire, 100
RELIGION, as a compensation for sex, 245
REPRESSION, De Quincey and Aristotle on bad effects of, 246, 247
REYNOLDS, JOSHUA, his bodiless child angels the ideal of the negative
mind, 22
SADISM, in little girls, spinsters, and old women, 156;
unconscious, in women, 157;
humanitarianism an inverted form of, 243
SAVOURINESS, a pre-requisite in marriage, 87
SCANDAL, loved by all decent, humane people, 311
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