CHAPTER VIII

SEX DIFFERENCES

The practical application of the truths arrived at--A question to be faced--The organic differences between the sexes--Résumé of the facts already established--The error in the common opinion of the true relationship of the sexes--The male

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true?--An examination of the passivity of the female--The delusion that man is the active partner in the sexual relationship--The economic factor in marriage--The conventional modesty of woman--Concealments and evasions--The feeling of shame in love--Woman's right of selection--How this must be regained by women--The new Ethic--The pre-natal claims of the child--The question of parenthood as a religious question--The responsibility of the mother as the child's supreme parent--The mating of the future--Another question--Woman's superior moral virtue--Its fundamental error--Woman's imperative need of love--The maternal instinct--Nature's experiments--The establishment of two sexes--The feminine and masculine characters are an inherent part of the normal man and woman--The female as the giver of life--The deep significance of this--The atrophy of the maternal instinct--Modern woman preoccupied with herself--The right position of the mother--Sex attraction and sex antagonism--Woman's relation to sexuality--The duel of the sexes--The prostitution of love--Man's fear of woman--Misogyny--The rebellion of woman against man--Coercive differentiation of the sexes in consequence of civilisation--The ideal of a one-sexed world--Woman as the enemy of her own emancipation--The attempt to establish a third sex--The danger of ignoring sex--The future progress of love.

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