Love Is Sexual Attraction
 
 

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“Propositions in Sexual Science,” Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, December 28, 1872

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Basal Propositions.

First—The human race is dual—male and female.

Second—The continuation of the human race depends upon the blending of its duality in sexual commerce.

Third—This commerce is natural when governed by the law of its existence—its regulation by arbitrary law being a prostitution of its natural use and purpose.
 

Definatory Propositions.

First—Love is sexual attraction, and may be passional and temporary—passional, intellectual and moral, and consequently perfect and permanent, or modifications of these, both as to incentive and continuation.

Second—Free Love is the natural name for the relations of the sexes, which primarily result from—and are maintained by—mutual and reciprocal attraction.

Third—Prostitution is the natural name for the relations of the sexes, which primarily result from—and are maintained by—reasons other than mutual and reciprocal attraction.

Fourth—Modern Marriage is a conglomerate modification of Free Love and Prostitution—ranging from the first in its purity to the last in its extreme sense, where sexual disgust replaces delight, and endurance, reciprocity.
 

Resultant Propositions.

First—The highest order of humanity results from sexual relations, in which love is the only element present.

Second—The lowest order of humanity results from sexual relations where there is disgust instead of delight, and endurance instead of reciprocity.

Third—The intermediate orders of humanity result from various modifications of the two extremes.
 

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