Marriage and Morals"Sufficient dynamite to blast a carload of ordinary sex popularizers from the face of the earth . . . deals most competently and completely with practically every ramification of sex and sex life and occurs in modern sociology and psychology." --New York Post "Fundamental and clear, unbiased and persuasive. Russell writes as a humanist, defending the happiness of man against many moral prejudices, advocates his changes lucidly and wittily." --Time |
Contents
WHY A SEXUAL ETHIC IS NECESSARY | 3 |
WHERE FATHERHOOD IS UNKNOWN | 14 |
THE DOMINION OF THE FATHER | 25 |
PHALLIC WORSHIP ASCETICISM AND SIN | 33 |
CHRISTIAN ETHICS | 44 |
ROMANTIC LOVE | 63 |
THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN | 78 |
THE TABOO ON SEX KNOWLEDGE | 93 |
THE PLACE OF LOVE IN HUMAN LIFE | 118 |
MARRIAGE | 130 |
PROSTITUTION | 145 |
TRIAL MARRIAGE | 156 |
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