Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ss and cruel freedom; but our impression is that their position,scattered as they are, without organization or definite separation from sur-rounding society, makes it impossible for them to follow and care for theconsequences of their freedom, and thus exposes them to the just charge oflicentiousness. At all events their platform is entirely different from ours,and they must answerfor themselves. We arenot free lovers, in anysense that makes loveless binding or responsi-ble than it is in mar-riage. Under the head ofA Social Analysisthey present the follow-ing disquisition on mar-riage, prostitution, oldmaidhood and Commu-nism: Let us, theylay, analyze t! 3 posi-tion of women in ordi-nary society, and seewhat are the chances thatare offered to them. Wo- the late rev. j. h. notes. men require, like meu, or Tbe Founder of the Oneida Community, perhaps more than men, two things for their proper existence, viz.: 1, aguaranty of bodily support; and 2, love, or social appreciation, Ihese two
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732 COMPLEX MARKIAGE. things sum up, for women, the primary natural wants around which allothers are grouped. Now the last-named necessity—the love part—wouldtake care of itself if allowed to act separately. The attractions with whichwomen are created would secure their due supply of affection, free from allconditions or exactions, if they could have independent play. But the weak-ness of women on the point of support enables society to complicate thismatter with the love question, so as to enforce their being treated to-gether; and the consequence is that man is placed in a position to offerwomen certain alternatives, one of which she must accept. Having ap-propriated to himself the learned professions and the lucrative industrial pur-suits ; having made it disreputable for women to pursue much other businessthan that of millinery work and attending the nursery, and having shapedtheir education accordingly; having in short got immensely the start of wo-man in the opportunities of

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