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The Abnormal Sex-Tendency
Gilman argues the sexuo-economic relation produces an excessive, artificial sex-tendency in humans — an intensity of sex-indulgence with no parallel among other animals — because the female's very livelihood depends on holding a male's attention.
Defining "excess" in a natural functionExcessive sex-indulgence as distinctly humanEconomic dependence as the driver, not instinctConsequences for individual health and happinessHow law and religion have tried, and failed, to check it