ABSTRACT

Love—the impulse based upon sexual differentiation of the man from the woman and the woman from the man, not limited to strictly sexual manifestations, but pervading our entire emotional life—is a sentiment regardless of nationality. In manifestations, in essence, and in results, it is insusceptible of classification by political, geographical, or ethnical groups. A similarly graded differentiation of the amatory life to that which can be established by a study of loving couples in the streets of various countries, obtains also, as careful analysis shows, in the domain of prostitution. Within the limits of Germany there are fairly pronounced differences in this respect between north and south, more especially between Prussia, on the one hand, and parts of German Austria, on the other. The lupanars or brothels of France stand certainly at a lower level than those of Germany, Italy, or elsewhere.