Special characterology of woman -- Mother and prostitute -- Relation of two types to the child -- Woman polygamous -- Analogies between motherhood and sexuality -- Motherhood and the race -- Maternal love ethically indifferent -- The prostitute careless of the race -- The prostitute, the criminal and the conqueror -- Emperor and prostitute -- Motive of the prostitute -- Coitus an end in itself -- Coquetry -- The sensations of the woman in coitus in relation to the rest of her life -- The prostitute as the enemy -- The friend of life and its enemy -- No prostitution amongst animals -- Its origin a mystery
Women, and the hatred of women -- Erotics and sexuality -- Platonic love -- The idea of love -- Beauty of women -- Relation to sexual impulse -- Love and beauty -- Difference between æsthetics, logic and ethics -- Modes of love -- Projection phenomena -- Beauty and morality -- Nature and ethics -- Natural and artistic beauty -- Sexual love as guilt -- Hate, love and morality -- Creation of the devil -- Love and sympathy -- Love and shyness -- Love and vanity -- Love of woman as a means to an end -- Relation between the child and love, the child and sexuality -- Love and murder -- Madonna-worship -- Madonna, a male idea, without basis in womanhood -- Woman sexual, not erotic -- Sense of beauty in women -- How man acts on woman -- The fate of the woman -- Why man loves woman
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Meaning of womanhood -- Instinct for pairing or matchmaking -- Man, and matchmaking -- High valuation of coitus -- Individual sexual impulse, a special case -- Womanhood as pairing or universal sexuality -- Organic falseness of woman -- Hysteria -- Difference between man and beast, woman and man -- The higher and lower life -- Birth and death -- Freedom and happiness -- Happiness and man -- Happiness and woman -- Woman and the problem of existence -- Non-existence of woman -- Male and female friendship -- Pairing identical with womanhood -- Why women must be regarded as human -- Contrast between subject -- Object, matter, form, man, woman -- Meaning of henids -- Formation of woman by man -- Significance of woman in the universe -- Man as something, woman as nothing -- Psychological problem of the fear of woman -- Womanhood and crime -- Creation of woman by man’s crime -- Woman as his own sexuality accepted by man -- Woman as the guilt of man -- What man’s love of woman is, in its deepest significance