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Share on: Twitter Facebook. I kept this philosophy in mind when writing this book with the goal of making it as inclusive and respectful as possible for a diverse audience. Although I have done my best to present the information in this book with great sensitivity, I fully recognize that not everyone will agree with everything I have written, despite the fact that it is all based in science.
Some of the topics we will cover may challenge your beliefs or make you feel uneasy. This is to be expected. Indeed, it is not uncommon for sex research to make people uncomfortable, which is part of the reason why this field is—and always has been—highly controversial. Should you find that you disagree with something in this book, please avoid the temptation to ignore, dismiss, or attack it.
The integrity of this field and the advancement of science fundamentally depend upon a free exchange of ideas and a willingness to consider new and different perspectives. As such, I implore you to keep an open mind as you approach the chapters ahead—and if you encounter things that personally challenge you, use them as learning opportunities. Perform additional readings. Ask questions.
Hold discussions with friends, classmates, or colleagues. You do not have to change your mind—all I ask is that you commit to educating yourself and acknowledging that different perspectives exist. Sexual Misconduct. To that extent it is analogous to the physical and psychic changes which accompany the gradual filling of the bladder and precede its evacuation.
External stimuli act at every stage, arousing or heightening the process of tumescence, and in normal human beings it may be said that the process is never completed without the aid of such stimuli, for even in the auto-erotic sphere external stimuli are still active, either actually or in imagination.
The chief stimuli which influence tumescence and thus direct sexual choice come chiefly—indeed, exclusively—through the four senses of touch, smell, hearing, and sight. All the phenomena of sexual selection, so far as they are based externally, act through these four senses.
When, therefore, we are exploring the nature of the influence which stimuli, acting through the sensory channels, exert on the strength and direction of the sexual impulse, we are intimately concerned with the process by which the actual form and color, not alone of living things generally, but of our own species, have been shaped and are still being shaped.
At the same time, it is probable, we are exploring the mystery which underlies all the subtle appreciations, all the emotional undertones, which are woven in the web of the whole world as it appeals to us through those sensory passages by which alone it can reach us.
We are here approaching, therefore, a fundamen. No writer so far as I can find has treated it from a genetic standpoint. The literature upon the subject is therefore meager. Most psychologists have been very sparing of details where it is concerned, and one might mention certain voluminous treatises which contain no mention of it. Is this through exaggerated delicacy?
Or is it because the authors think that their place has been usurped by the novelists who have so obstinately confined themselves to the study of this passion?
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