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

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXnot be possible in this way to eliminate the mentally unfitelement in the population.It would only be a beginning.In regard to this subject there is still much need forthe spread of enlightenment.An equally common problemispresented with regardto the frequency of coitus. Very widely divergent viewsare dogmatically set forth on this point. Some personsconsider it normal and necessary to have intercourse everynight, and they continue this practice for many years withno obvious bad results. Others assert that intercourseshould never be practiced except for the end of procreation,which might mean only two or three times in a lifetime,and they argue that such a practiceis alone naturaland moral. It is undoubtedly true that this is the only endin the intercourse of animals, but in determining what isnatural for man we are not entitled to consider the practiceof the animals belonging to remote genera. We haveto consider the general practiceof the human specieswhich by no means shows so narrowly exclusive an aimin procreation, although unspoiled uncivilized peoples areon the whole (contrary to a common assumption) muchmore sexually abstinent than civilized peoples. But evenif it were not so we are quite justified in departing, if wethink fit, from the habits of the lower races. Certainly thesexual organs were developed for procreation, not for thesexual gratification of the individual; certainly also thehands were developed to serve nutrition, not to play onthe piano or the violin. But if the individual can find joyand inspiration in using his organs for ends they were notmade for, he isfollowing a course of action which,whether or not we choose to call it "natural," is perfectlyand moral. Those who advocate imitation ofjustifiablethe lower animals by confining sexual intercourse to the"natural" end of procreation, are also bound to imitate