Abstract
Ma. DE POMEKAI'S book is a welcome and opportune addition to the literature on marriage, even though Prof. Westermarck has published within the last few years a revised and enlarged edition as well as an abridgment of his classical work on the subject. The author of the present book holds that both Westermarck and Letourneau, having written exclusively from the viewpoint of the family and regarded procreation as the sole or highest function served by matrimony, have paid insufficient attention to the urge of the gregarious. In other words, he suggests that they have fallen out of date owing to the institution and spread of ‘com-panionate’ unions and the changed ideals and ideas which they imply. Further, there has to be taken into account the effect of current psychological theory in relation to sexual activity and repression.
Marriage, Past, Present and Future: an Outline of the History and Development of Human Sexual Relationships.
Ralph de Pomerai. Pp. xvii + 370. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1930.) 15s. net.
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Marriage, Past, Present and Future: an Outline of the History and Development of Human Sexual Relationships . Nature 126, 163 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126163b0
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