How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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- Publication/creation
- London : George Routledge, 1932.
- Physical description
- xiv, 374 pages ; 22 cm
- Contributors
- Wolfe, W. Béran 1900-1935.
- Notes
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This edition was reprinted in 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946 and 1948.
Copy 1 Note: 1937 reprint. X158203
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whom he could reap the rewards of his personal labours.
A tendency to find social values in the sexual union, the
only profound human relation that may really be said to
exist for the average man of to-dayhas consequently
grown in civilized society.
The exceptionally civilized human beings whose social
connectedness has grown with the complexity of their
civilization, do not sense this need so poignantly as the
worker who finds but little value in his daily job, and
surely no glory or significance in filing reports or in
selling underlinen. As this need for more intimate social
relations has grown, the tendency to reconstellate sexual
intercourse from a purely biological hormic pattern into a
personal hormic pattern is so universal that in our present-
day civilization it is far more common for men and women
to practise sexual congress for their personal satisfaction
and for the establishment of a closer social accord, than
for the primitive biological need of procreating children
for the maintenance of the race.
The biological consequences of sex, however, are just
as important as ever in the history of mankind. Sexual
union leads to impregnation and childbirth to-day just as
surely as in the days of the cave-man. These reproductive
consequences of sexual congress must be avoided in the
majority of the instances in which civilized human beings
cohabit sexually for purely social ends, rather,than as
animals for purely biological ends. If the personal hormic
pattern is to be carried out successfully the biological
consequences of sexual cohabitation must be avoided.
The Vital Role oj Contraception
No woman can afford to be ignorant of modern contra¬
ceptive methods if she is to lead a civilized life. The price
of this ignorance is tragedy multiplied by tragedy, as the
records of any society for the spread of birth-control
information can eloquently attest. The modern woman
does not practise sexual congress merely for the pro¬
creation of children, and she is not in a position to deny