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C. Gasquoine Hartley. Women, Children, Love, and Marriage
Women, Children, Love, and Marriage
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
Section I. WOMEN
WOMEN AND CATS
THE WOMEN OF SPAIN
THE DANGEROUS AGE. A TRACT FOR THE TIMES
I
II
III
THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE MOTHER
PROBLEMS OF BIRTH CONTROL
Section II. CHILDREN
A BOY’S MISERY
CRIMINALS MADE IN OUR NURSERIES
THE TYRANNY OF PARENTS
THE SUPERFLUOUS FATHER
THE PERFECT MOTHER
NOBODY’S CHILDREN
CHILD ADOPTION: A MUCH NEEDED REFORM
LET US PENSION THE MOTHERS
BOY AND GIRL OFFENDERS, AND ADULT MISUNDERSTANDING
NEW WAYS OF TEACHING CHILDREN. UNBOUNDED FREEDOM AND SOME DRAWBACKS
DIFFICULTIES AND MISTAKES IN SEX EDUCATION
SEX INSTRUCTION. THE AGE AT WHICH KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE GIVEN
THE MYTH OF THE VIRTUOUS SEX
SENTIMENTAL TAMPERING WITH DIFFICULT PROBLEMS: WITH SOME REMARKS ON SEX FAVOURITISM
THE SEDUCTION OF MEN
PLAYING WITH LOVE
Section III. MARRIAGE AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS
IS PASSIONATE LOVE THE SUREST FOUNDATION FOR MARRIAGE?
MARRIAGE REFORM
TO-DAY’S IDEAS ON MARRIAGE. ARE WE SEEKING VAINLY AFTER HAPPINESS?
WHY MEN ARE UNFAITHFUL
WHY WIVES ARE UNFAITHFUL
SHOULD DOCTORS TELL?
THE MODERN WIFE AND THE OLD-FASHIONED HUSBAND
THE TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN AND HIS YOUNG WIFE
IS MARRIAGE TOO EASY?
PASSIONATE FRIENDSHIPS
CONCLUSION. REGENERATION
Footnote
INDEX
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C. Gasquoine Hartley
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It is necessary for women to speak plainly. You cannot deny the needs of the body, or prostitute their use, without the soul paying its penalty. That is what women too often forget. A false purity held Elsie Lindtner from giving herself to her lover, Jorgen Mallthe, and kept her faithful in the letter of the law to the husband she had married for his wealth. She had no children. I say without any doubt that she would have been a purer and a better, because a happier and more healthy woman, if she had followed the cry of her heart, at the first, as she was driven in the end to want to do—when it was too late. That she did not do this, but chose to sacrifice her lover in the same way that she had sacrificed her husband must, in my opinion, be counted as sin against her. Only the falseness which had wrapped her own life in a net of pretence could have made her fail to see the truth for herself.
It is a fact of very special importance that Elsie Lindtner and all the women who enter into this book belong to the Scandinavian race, among whom chastity was extolled as the chief virtue of a woman, while any lapse was punished with terrible severity. If the husband of an ancient Dane discovered his wife in adultery he was allowed to kill and castrate her lover. “There is a city,” says the Scandinavian Edda, “remote from the sun, the gates of which face the north, poison rains there through a thousand openings, the place is all composed of the carcasses of serpents. There run certain torrents, in which are plunged the bodies of the perjurers, assassins, and those who seduce married women. A black-winged dragon flies incessantly round and devours the bodies of the wretched who are there imprisoned.” Again, the Icelandic Hava Maél contains this caustic apophthegm “Trust not the words of a girl, neither to those which a woman utters, for their hearts have been made like the wheel that turns round; levity was put into their bosoms. Trust not to the ice on one day’s freezing, neither to the serpent which lies asleep, nor to the caresses of her you are going to marry.”
