Abstract
DR. UNWIN has made an inductive study of the effect of sexual repression and its relation to progress in human societies, of which this volume is a preliminary statement. He has taken eighty societies under review, classifying them according to status as determined by certain characters. He finds that the place of each in this grouping agrees with the degree to which pre-nuptial sexual relations are subjected to repression; and in a final chapter he rapidly surveys the history of civilisation, showing that decadence has invariably followed the relaxation of sexual regulation. While it is more than probable that Dr. Unwin is right, he has made put a case for further investigation rather than proved his contention. No doubt the fuller treatment promised will strengthen the argument.
Sexual Regulations and Human Behaviour.
Dr.
J. D.
Unwin
By. Pp. xv + 108. (London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1933.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Sexual Regulations and Human Behaviour . Nature 133, 668 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133668c0
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