Savages Studied

Savages Studied

STUDIES OF SAVAGES AND SEX--Ernest Crawley--Button--($4.50). Although this is primarily a scholarly book, it contains points such as the following for man-in-the-street's consideration: "The attaching of a market-value to a woman has tended to raise the standard of female chastity." "There is no doubt that the various forms of love--sexual, parental, paternal, filial, and social--are kindred emotions." "Other things being equal, the savage regards the satisfaction of the sexual instinct exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity, orgy, oath, curse, blessing, Author Crawley. though Nordic, writes in a style itself marked by almost complete freedom from Nordic taboos: that is, he writes scientifically. The science of his insight is occasionally relieved by its poetry. This is more of a distinction than is the approval given him by Sexpert Havelock Ellis, lavish approver.