CHAPTER PACK 



the oriole, pheasants, the ruff. Peacocks and turkey- 

 cocks. Birds of paradise. Moderate dimorphism of 

 mammifers. Effects of castration on dimorphism. 



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3. Vertebrates (Continued) : Man and woman. 

 Characteristics and limits of human dimorphism. Ef- 

 fects of civilization. Psychologic dimorphism. The 

 insect world and the human. Modern dimorphism, 

 basis of the pair. Solidarity of the human pair. Di- 

 morphism and polygamy. The pair favours the fe- 

 male. Sexual aesthetics. Causes of the superiority of 

 feminine beauty. 



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Inferiority and superiority of the female as shown 



hi animal species. Influence of feeding on the produc- 

 tion of sexes. The female would have sufficed. 

 Feminism absolute, and moderate. Pipe-dreams: elimi- 

 nation of the male and human parthenogenesis. 



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Sexual dimorphism and parallelism. Sexual organs of 

 man and of woman. Constancy of sexual paral- 

 lelism in the animal series. External sexual organs of 

 placentary mammifera. Form and position of the 

 penis. The penial bone. The clitoris. The vagina. 



The teats. Forked prong of marsupials. Sexual organs 

 of reptiles. Fish and birds with a penial organ. 

 Genital organs of arthropodes. Attempt to classify 

 animals according to the disposition, presence, ab- 

 sence of exterior organs for reproduction. 



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i. Copulation: Vertebrates. Its very numerous va- 

 rieties and its specific fixity. The apparent immoral- 

 ity of Nature. Sexual ethnography. Human mechan- 

 ism. Cavalage. The form and duration of coupling 

 in divers mammifers. Aberrations of sexual surgery, 

 the ampallang. Pain as a bridle on sex. Maidenhead. 

 The mole. Passivity of the female. The ovule, 

 psychological figure of the female. Mania of attribut- 

 ing human virtues to animals. The modesty of ele- 

 phants. Coupling mechanism in whales, seals, tor- 

 toises. In certain ophidians and in certain fish. 



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