Sex and Common-Sense |
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| Author:
| Royden, A. Maude |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5147-5035-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2015 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $5.25 |
Book Description:
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The Sacramental Theology of Sex and Love.
"It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women." -Maude Royden
"I believe indeed that if men and women understood each other a little better they would hurt each other a good deal less. But I am persuaded that we shall not even begin to reach a wise morality so...
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The Sacramental Theology of Sex and Love.
"It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women." -Maude Royden
"I believe indeed that if men and women understood each other a little better they would hurt each other a good deal less. But I am persuaded that we shall not even begin to reach a wise morality so long as we persist in basing our demands on the imbecile assumption that women suffer nothing or little by the unsatisfaction of the sex side of their nature." -Maude Royden
"In this book, Maude Royden has given us a useful contribution to the interpretive side of sex. It is essentially spiritual, yet never apologetic for the physical. With a frankness not in the least offensive, the reader is led to admit the part sex must play in the life of the well-balanced individual. Nor does the author seek to sublimate the physical out of existence, - rather to hold it as a precious instrument to develop and express deep refining emotion. Her treatment of the subject bears largely on sex fulfilled in marriage.
"The book rings true rationally and emotionally. Sex emotion rightly handled justifies itself. It colors life. Out of the realms of acts and fleeing emotion the author lifts it to a unifying experience. It becomes the temperer of character.
"The spirit of this volume might well be caught by all who contemplate marriage, no matter how remotely. It is a real stimulus to the use of sex endowment for noble ends." -Journal of Social Hygiene, Volume 8, 1922
CONTENTS
I.-THE OLD PROBLEM INTENSIFIED BY THE DISPROPORTION OF THE SEXES
II.-A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF THE UNMARRIED
III.-CONSIDERATION OF OTHER SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEM OF THE DISPROPORTION OF THE SEXES
IV.-THE TRUE BASIS OF MORALITY
V.-THE MORAL STANDARD OF THE FUTURE: WHAT SHOULD IT BE?
VI.-A PLEA FOR LIGHT
VII.-FRIENDSHIP
VIII.-MISUNDERSTANDINGS
IX.-FURTHER MISUNDERSTANDINGS: THE NEED FOR SEX CHIVALRY
X.-"THE SIN OF THE BRIDEGROOM"
XI.-COMMON-SENSE AND DIVORCE LAW REFORM