Sexual life
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Connected with the sexual psychopathy of M. Zola is the part played in him by the olfactory sensations. The predominance of the sense of smell and its connection with the sexual life is very striking among many degenerates."--Degeneration (1892) by Max Nordau "The sexual life of savages has long awaited its natural historian. Owing to sex taboos, that weigh at least as much on the civilized as on the savage mind, this subject has always been veiled in mystery. The mystery has been fascinating or sombre according to the general attitude to savagery that happened to prevail. In the eighteenth century it was fascinating. That century, especially in its French mode, virtually discovered what is loosely and incorrectly termed "Primitive Man.""-- The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929) by Bronisław Malinowski, preface by Havelock Ellis |
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Sexual life, sex life, vita sexualis, or love life are the sexual aspects of one's personal life. Especially in the case of a biography, the curiosity for a person's love life is substantial.
Namesakes
- The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, 1929, a book by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski
- The Sexual life of the Belgians, 1994, a film satire on Belgian provincialism by Jan Bucquoy
- La vie sexuelle d'Emmanuel Kant,1999, Jean-Baptiste Botul
- The Sexual Life of Catherine M., 2001, an erotic memoir by French art critic Catherine Millet
- The Sexual Life of the Savages, 2005, a compilation album by Soul Jazz Records
See also
- Asexuality
- Erotic memoir
- Human sexual activity
- Libido
- Pathography
- Psychobiography
- Historical examples of bachelors (men who never married)