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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6)

CHAPTER IV
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Indeed, not only for the higher, but also for the lower manifestation of the sexual impulse, it would usually be more correct to use instead the qualification "human." [61] _Loc.

cit._, _Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle_, Jan., 1907.
[62] It has, however, become colored and suspect from an early period in the history of Christianity.

St.Augustine (_De Civitate Dei_, lib.

xiv, cap.

XV), while admitting that libido or lust is merely the generic name for all desire, adds that, as specially applied to the sexual appetite, it is justly and properly mixed up with ideas of shame.
[63] Hinton well illustrates this feeling.


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