Sex and Sex Worship (Kegan Paul Library of Sexual Life)

This text, "A Scientific Treatise on Sex, its Nature and Function, and its Influence on Art, Science, Architecture and Religion," contains a wealth of fascinating information on the cultural aspects of sex. Topics explored include primitive ideas about sex, religious and mythical interpretations of sex, the status of women, cosmology and sex, sex in the Greek Bible, artistic representations of sexuality, phallic worship and virgin worship. The book provides insights not only into sexual life throughout the ages but also into the particular ideas and preoccupations about sex which were current when the book was first published in 1919.