A study of masturbation and the psychosexual life / by John F.W. Meagher.

  • Meagher, John F. W. (John Francis Wallace), 1880-1931
Date:
1929
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Credit: A study of masturbation and the psychosexual life / by John F.W. Meagher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I Sex knowledge and instruction. Attitude in REGARD TO SEX. DUTIES OF THE PHYSICIAN, CLERGYMAN, AND PARENTS. AGE TO TEACH It was not until about 1850 that sexual psychology become a recognized study. Before that the subject had been almost neglected scientifically. Jung said that the objections to the discussion of sex in most people are not intellectual, but are founded on a feeling of moral resentment. Even Charcot paid little attention to sex as being an etiological factor in hysteria. And many physicians still maintain the ancient taboo regarding sex topics. To-day the number of scientific articles on sex are relatively few as compared to the erotic and often unethical treatment of the subject in novels, press and maga¬ zine articles, and theatrical productions. Needless to say there are other impulses in life besides the sexual. But none suffers greater repres¬ sion and is so little understood scientifically as the sexual. One who rejects sexual enlightenment is quite withdrawn from normal sex life. Yet we see patients who cannot get away from their ignorance. Many people are cultured in all other respects, ex¬ cept that their sexual life remains at a low state of development. Many families react quite eccen¬ trically to any mention of the subject. Convention causes the primary repressions, which are increased by prudishness and hypocrisy. And how paradoxi-
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