Sexual Relations of Mankind

by Paolo Mantegazza

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Summary

This is the 3rd volume of his Love Trilogy.
Paolo Mantegazza (1831–1910) is remembered mainly as a sex writer, sometimes a term of reproach, sometimes a term of honor. As a delineator of love, he's never been surpassed & rarely equaled. He has faults as a writer, but they're invariably the faults of superabundance from the depths of his nature there poured a thousand pages surcharged with passion & never of emotional poverty. When he wrote about love, he couldn't be calm. For everywhere he saw sex, the source of the profoundest of emotions, bringing tragedy instead of happiness to humankind. As a pioneer sexologist, he encountered much opposition. In the Era of the fig-leaf, they didn't understand, & often assailed the writer of the Trilogia. In this warfare, he couldn't retreat. His pen was as a lance striking in dark places, unloosening rusty hinges from the rotting door of prudery. "You who have known me for a long time as a physician & friend," he said, "know that I have the courage to work in the open, & that I have never been among those who applaud the lasciviousness of a ballet dancer, & place fig leaves on Greek statues."

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