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

THE BIOLOGY OF SEXthat sexual feeling isincreased before, during,and aftermenstruation. Kossmann advised intercourse just aftermenstruation, or even during the latter days of the flow,as the period when it is most needed. Guyot said that theeight days after menstruation are the period of sexualdesire in women. Harry Campbell, who investigated theperiodicity of sexual desire in healthy women of the workingclasses by inquiries made of their husbands who werepatients at a London Hospital, found that in two-thirdsof the wives, desire was increased before, during or afterthe flow, or at all three times.We now possess the results of inquiries on a more definitelystatistical basis. Thus Dr. Katharine Davis, in herstudy of the sex life of over two thousand women, foundthat maximum sexual desire nearly always fell within theperiod from two days before to a week after menstruation,although, unlike most investigators, she found that it wasmore often before than after the menstrual flow (69 to.38 cases) Dr. G. V. Hamilton in his examination of 100married women of educated class a small number, butcarefully studied found that 25 had sex desire just aftermenstruation only, 14 just before only, 21 just before andjust after, 11 during menstruation and just before andjust after, 19 had no periodicity at all, while the remaining10 gave no information.The modesty of women, which, in its most primitiveform among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is,with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.At the outset modesty may be said to be the gesture ofsexual refusal by a female animal who is not yet at theperiod of oestrus. Modesty, however, tends to overlap thatperiod, as we should expect with an impulse which isactive during the greater part of the year, and combineswith the sexual impulse, constituting coquetry; then thef SS 1