Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXseparate fathers, is still more impracticable;she is necessarily"monogamic."In fact, that is the wrong word to use. The people whodiscuss whether men are more "polygamic" than women,really mean more poly-erotic.That is to say, not whetherbut more sexual freedom. Tothey desire more marriagessay that a man is monogamic still leaves open the questionof whether he is mono-erotic or poly-erotic,and if itis decided that he is poly-erotic, that by no means implieseither that he ispolygamic, or that he is promiscuous,which involves indiscriminate sexual attraction withoutselection, a state of things not found, save occasionally ininsanity. Much confused and futile discussion has beencaused by this ignorant misuse of terms.It would seem that most persons, women as well as men,are monogamic and poly-erotic. That is to say they onlydesire one permanent marriage, but they do not find thatthat relationship stands in the way of sexual attraction toone or more other persons, though the attraction thusaroused may be felt to be of a different nature to thatexperienced for the permanent partner, and it may provequite possible to hold such attractions more or less incontrol. There appears to be no sexual difference in thismatter. Women are fully as well able as men to experienceaffection for more than one person of the opposite sex,though on account of the deeper significance of sex forwomen they may be instinctively more fastidious thanmen in sexual choice, and on account of social and otherconsiderations more reticent and cautious than men inmanifesting or in yielding to their affections.While, however, this seems the most frequent type ofsexual attraction, there are other types and endless individualvariations. We must not assume that one special typeof sexual pattern is invariably of higher moral character