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

THE BIOLOGY OF SEXto last an essential condition of courtship. Without thereticences and delays of modesty, tumescence could not beadequately aroused in either sex, nor would the femalehave time and opportunity to test the qualities of thecandidates for her favors, and to select the most fittingmate.BIBLIOGRAPHYHAVELOCK ELLIS, "Analysis of the Sexual Impulse," inVol. Ill The Evolution of Modesty; "The Evolution ofModesty" and "The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity/'in Vol. I Studies in the Psychology of Sex, and "TheMenstrual Curve of Sexual Impulse" in Vol. VII.WALLASCHEK, Primitive Music.COLIN SCOTT, "Sex and Art," American Journal of Psychology*Vol. VII, No. 2.HEAPE, "The Sexual Season of Mammals," QuarterlyJournal of Microscopical Science, 1900, and "The Proportionof the Sexes," Philosophical Transactions of theRoyal Society, Series B, Vol. 200, 1909.WESTERMARCK, The History of Human Marriage, Vol. I.J. R. BAKER, Sex in Man and Animals.ZUCKERMAN, The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes.MUNRO Fox, Selene.MAURICE PARMELEE, Nudism in Modern Life.Preferential Mating: The Factors of Sexual SelectionThe process of tumescence is achieved, directly or indirectly,by the stimulating influence of impressions receivedthrough the various senses. Contrectation, as Mollterms it, is indeed simply the sum of the physical andpsychic impressions so received, normally from a personof the opposite sex. Sexual selection is the choice of theperson who most adequately imparts these impressions.seem toIn using the term "sexual selection" we mayassume a theory in the Darwinian doctrine of evolution[37]