Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    moral consequences, sexual pleasure is perfectly innocent ; , 38. The further proving that such pleasure is quite as natural, and more necessary, to woman than to man; 39. The showing that, in the -practice of love, the chief difference among nations is ‘its avowal among some, and its concealment among’ others, —dependent on their having, with a larger vital system, greater observing faculties. 40, The furnishing the test,that the degree of the developement of the: glandular and secreting system, always shows among which nations sexual wants and sexual errors most prevail ; 41. The application of this to England ; 42. The pointing out the origin and progress of these errors in individuals ; 43. The further pointing out that such errors rarely lead to permanent attachments ; 44, The showing that it 1s generally the jea- lousy of one of the parties that produces lasting estrangement, and that it: is only when that pas- sion and persecution ensue, that sexual infidelity - becomes the occasion of injury to the domestic affections ; 45, The further showing that sexual infidelity, though less to be blamed for irregular productive- ness, than for non-productiveness and waste of