Sex efficiency through exercises : special physical culture for women / by Th. H. van de Velde ; [photos, by E. Steinemann].
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE, EXPLAINING THE AIMS OF THIS BOOK . v FIRST SECTION PELVIC EXERCISES IN GENERAL Chapter INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. The Value of Pelvic Exercises for Women. The Current Literature on Gymnastics for Women 1 Lack of Direct Application to the Reproductive Functions . 2 Considerable Indirect Benefits ...... 2 Approval and Disappointment ...... 2 Axiom : That Women Need a Different Form of Physical Culture from Men ........ 2 Cardinal Reproductive Functions : Coitus and Birth . . 3 Value of Conscious Pelvic Culture for these Functions . . 3 Psychological Causes of their Neglect ..... 3 Omission of the Sexual Act by Medical Authors on Physical Culture . . . . . . . . . .4 Functional Modesty ........ 5 Erotic Shyness ......... 6 Concealment of Sexual Emotions ...... 6 Civilised Human Beings have to Learn how to Perform Primitive Functions ......... 8 Importance of the Complexities of Erotic Technique . . 8 Apathy or Awkwardness in the Woman .... 9 Ignorance of her Own Body . . .... 9 Disastrous Results .... .... 9 The Wish for Knowledge and Help ..... 10 Chapter II .......... 12 NATURE AND PURPOSES OF PELVIC EXERCISES. Exercises of the Pelvic Zone and Exercises of the Pelvic Floor. What exactly are " Pelvic Exercises " ? . . . .12 What is their Purpose and How is this Purpose Effected ? . 13 Influence on the Circulation through the Pelvic Viscera . . 13 Influence on the Position of the Genitalia . . . .13 Significance for Coitus ........ 13 Significance for Pregnancy . . . . . . .14 Significance for the Act of Birth . . . . . .14 Pelvic Exercises and the Puerperium . . . . .14 Benefits of Pelvic Exercises in Certain Gynaecological Ailments 15 General Health and Well-being . . . . . .15