In these countries, too, she exists merely as a sexual being.
This over emphasis of the sexual causes a great part of the most flagrant evils among civilized peoples.
When woman became property, a possession, the overestimation of her sexual value began.
But many persons will vote for a complete tapu, and an impartial sweep from the boards of Mrs Warren and Gretchen and the rest; in short, for banishing the sexual instincts from the stage altogether.
I challenge Mr Redford to mention any extremity of sexualmisconduct which any manager in his senses would risk presenting on the London stage that has not been presented under his license and that of his predecessor.
The economic or legal motives are not emphasized; and Westermarck's explanation is broader than Starcke's, for he holds that the aversion extends to sexual connections outside of regular marriage.
With the rise of fixed habitations for the group, beginning in the glacial age and carried farther in the diluvial period, came more permanent sexual relations, the prototype of real marriage.
Woman, it is assumed, is exposed to the lust or sexual tyranny of man; and it is through her successful revolt against the bondage of unbridled hetairism that she attains the second stage of progress.
Among the ancestors of man, as among other animals, there was no doubt a time when blood-relationship was no bar to sexual intercourse.
It is used to "denote the general conduct as to sexual matters of men without wives.
It follows, therefore, that sexual selection is but another aspect of natural selection, and the secondary sexual characters are perpetuated in harmony with the law of survival of the fittest.
The sexual instinct, however powerful, is "devoid of the conditions which form the basis of the leading tendencies in which man's struggle for existence must be fought out.
The natural result will be the increase of sexual vice.
This parent-group is the "hypothetical primordial cell of the family," brought together by sexual requirements and the need of sustenance and protection.
That reverence has many charming and wholesome aspects; it has given young women a priceless freedom of movement in America without the penalty of being constantly suspected of sexual designs which they may not harbor.
Witla remains mediocre enough in all but his sexual unscrupulousness, but he is impelled by a driving force more or less like those forces which impel Cowperwood.
Not only has she as a possible reader established the boundaries beyond which they might not go in speaking of sexual affairs but she has dominated the scene of their inventions with her glittering energy and her healthy bloodlessness.
It is often brilliantly coloured, and has been supposed to be a sexual adornment.
In most species, particularly in those which live in lakes, the sexual period occurs in the late autumn, and the ephippial eggs lie dormant during the winter, and hatch in the spring.
Satisfaction of the sexual impulse is essential to the sound physical and mental development of both man and woman.
Treatment of sexualdiseases in sick benefit fund institutions and hospitals, Berlin, 1890.
Her education will be the same as man's, with the exception of those deviations that are necessitated by the differences of sex and sexual functions.
Excessive sexualirritability is also brought about by long hours of work in a high temperature, for instance in sugar refineries, laundries, printing establishments, etc.
The forced celibacy of the clergy alone led to sexual debauchery, and this was still heightened by the constant association with Italy and Rome.
The display of the nude human body, the natural treatment of natural things, prevented the extreme sexual irritation that is mainly caused by an artificial separation of the sexes from childhood on.
Even the German diet could not bring itself to provide legally for the treatment of persons afflicted with sexual diseases by means of the sick benefit funds, as in the case of other diseases.
Temperance in sexual intercourse is as necessary as temperance in eating and drinking, and other human requirements.
Where such intellectual harmony fails to exist, the sexual intercourse is purely mechanical and thereby becomes immoral.
The female organism requires special care in consideration of its special sexual functions.
To those men then, who voluntarily or involuntarily lead an unmarried life, and to those who do not find their expectations realized in marriage, opportunities for satisfaction of the sexual impulse are far more favorable than to women.
As soon as a human being has attained maturity, the sexual impulse manifests itself with all its vigor.
Attempts have been made to rear it in other hosts but without avail, and we know from the general relations of the parasite that it must have this sexual as well as the asexual generations.
In many cases, however, the presence of the sexual forms in the lymphatics may cause serious complications.
These are dependent on two hosts for their existence, the sexual generation usually occuring in an insect or other invertebrate and the asexual generation in some vertebrate.
In the meantime studies of other parasites more or less closely related to Plasmodium showed that the sexual stage occurred outside the vertebrate host.
Another thing that indicated that this sexual generation must take place outside the body of the vertebrate host was the fact that the investigators found that the parasites in certain of the cells did not sporulate as did the others.
One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.
But a very little advance in enlightenment shows that the sexual instincts need restraint[170] rather than the stimulus which they must derive from such a cult.
A later notice speaks of the worship of wooden figures, male and female, provided with sexual organs.
Particular significance was attached to the generative organs, and it is needless to say that all kinds of sexual excesses ensued.
Quite to the astonishment of the white people, this ceremony consisted of the open performance of the sexualact by a young Indian man and woman.
At this time, the whole development in the reproductive sphere, particularly in the mental characteristics associated with the sexual instinct, considered in its broadest sense, does not take place.
Another later symbolism, which was adopted by certain philosophies, was more obscure but was none the less of distinct sexual significance.
We shall show later that certain male and female symbolic animals were so placed on coins as to symbolically indicate sexual union.
Male and female attributes are often combined on coins for purposes of sexual symbolism.
It is shown throughout these pages that sexualattributes were worshipped under both these deities.
At this period a certain degree of sexual promiscuity existed; the mother of the child was known but the father was not and so the descent was in the female line.
The lotus then, which is found throughout antiquity, in art as well as in religion, was a sexual symbol, representing to the ancients the combination of male and female sexual organs.
Sexual symbolism was very general at one time and remains of it are found in most of the countries where any form of sex worship has existed.
The night was spent in sexual excesses comparable to those of the Roman Bacchanalia.
Just as with the race reproduction is necessary for the continuation of the race, so with the individual, elaboration of sexual instinct is necessary in order that adult sexual responsibilities may be assumed.
Men as well as women eventually came to take part in the ceremony, and the whole affair degenerated into the grossest of sexual excesses and perversions.
He states that the male sexual organ is symbolized by a simple mound of earth and is so worshipped.
In man the color of the hair and beard, the most conspicuous of the secondary sexual characters, is most usually brown, or some other variety of red.
If he yield to a sexual desire, it is without esteem or regard for the partner in his sin.
Racially, the absence of that natural selection which expresses itself in sexual desire, cannot but be detrimental.
The absence of that strong sexual passion which we have clad in the jewelled veils of poetry and have baptized in the romantic waters of love is not to the Brahman eye an impediment or a disappointment.
A graceful romance in honour of true love was distorted into a precedent and sanction for giving way to hysterical emotions, in which sexual imagery was freely used to symbolise the relation between the soul and its Lord.
In both sexes there are two successive crises: the sexual crisis and the sensual crisis.
In their austere stoicism they condemned all sexual indulgence save that of which the sole object was the procurement of offspring.
Priest John, their leader, admitted the correctness of all save one alleging promiscuous sexual intercourse, which he indignantly denied.
We may safely set down the accounts of the sexual abominations which succeeded religious services in the conventicles, when the lights were extinguished, as worthy of equal credence.
All the cells of the body are descendants from a single fertilised egg, which has resulted from the fusion of a paternal and maternal sexual cell.
It appears then to be pretty certain that every man and woman possesses a store of sexual cells, derived directly from the original sexual cells from which he or she was developed.
There is no reason to suppose that the sexual cells, rather than any other cells in the body, will be affected.
Among the cells of the body, and situated in special organs, are the sexual cells, likewise nourished by blood, but not connected by nerves with other parts of the body.
But, as we shall see in the next chapter, the sexual cells in most cases get off scot-free, and the most dangerous acquired constitutional diseases leave no trace of their passage upon the reproductive elements.
Teach the child, simply as a matter of course, all about the ways of reproduction, and to the boy or girl purity will remain when the age of sexual sway and impulse comes.
All about them the child should be taught, from the beginning, so that all will be natural and right and commonplace and a matter of course long before the age is reached when the sexual instinct is developed.
Sexual urge probably motivated most of his wandering, since numbers of females were low.
Presence of a vaginal orifice was used as an indication of sexual activity.
He concluded, tentatively, that in most instances sexual maturity is not attained until the spring of the year following that in which the rat is born.
If a young man who has sexual weakness, due to youthful indiscretions, purposes reform and desires to regain his manhood, he will find association with young women of the above type to be very helpful.
It should not be understood that a decline in sexual desire means the cessation of creative energy, a decline in general health, efficiency or happiness.
There are some authors who hold that the injuries sustained by the female, due to impure habits of thinking, the secret sin, or sexual excesses, are not caused by dissipated sexual life, but are due to the strain upon the nervous system.
Every possible means should be used to keep small boys and girls from acquiring and cultivating morbid curiosity about the sexual organs of each other.
Then I explained to him how this intense sexual excitement had brought on varicocele, loss of sexual power and spermatorrhea.
After puberty dawns, impure thinking and all impure states of the mind will so stimulate the sexual glands that they will secrete more semen than the body can absorb.
The explanation lies in the fact that the sexual glands of a woman, breasts and ovaries, each have two functions--a periodic and special function and a continuous involuntary function.
This would indicate that the sexual life of the male has a double creative function.
If cohabitation is not a physical and sexual necessity, or conducive to health, why do married people live longer and have better health than those who remain single?
Improper thinking about the opposite sex leads to special excitement of the sexual organs and results in conscious sexual desire.
There are at least two reasons why men should welcome the waning of sexual desire when the change of life occurs.
It might, and in fact does exist in the absence of any sexual interest whatever.
The habit of constant association with girls who are not his sisters relieves a boy of the exaggerated sense of sexual isolation.
It is unfortunately impossible to suggest that sexual jealousy can be wholly eliminated from human nature.
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It springs directly from sexual feelings, it is hereditary and instinctive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sexual" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
