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Toward a Wider Social Life
Gilman argues that once the sex-relation is no longer distorted by economic dependence, human beings will want — and be able to build — a richer social life beyond the immediate family, with friendship and community occupying a larger place than the isolated household allows today.
The "machinery of social intercourse" as a civilizational needFamily isolation versus a wider human communityFriendship as a distinct, higher social forceHow purified sex-attraction changes social needsSocial contact as a marker of racial advance