XX LOVE THAT CRAVES SUFFERING--MASOCHISM 200 Sacher Masoch's biography. Love of the whip. The masochist is like a tired horse. Shoe fetishism. Craving for humiliation. Masochistic fancies. Are women masochistic? Women who enjoy a beating. A Freudian suggestion.
XXI WHAT LOVE OWES TO SADISTS AND MASOCHISTS 212 Sadistic and masochistic lovers and their fascination. The vamp. Those who are too normal to be interesting or romantic.
XXII LOVE AMONG THE ARTISTS 216 Dissatisfaction. The male artist. The female artist. The woman who accomplishes things. Flattery.
XXIII THE PERSONALITY BEHIND THE FETISHES. GLANDS 223 The parent-child relationship. Modern endocrinologists ignorant of psychology. Reciprocal influence of glands and behavior. The pituitary gland. The thyroid. The adrenals. The gonads.
XXIV GLANDULAR PERSONALITIES 233 The dark skinned type. The tall type. The lean type. The obese type. The slender type. Environment. Comfort and behavior. What teeth indicate. Matrimonial engineers.
XXV LOVE AND MOTHER LOVE 241 Sex cravings and motherhood cravings. Pregnancy means health. Fear of pregnancy. When mother love is lacking. Frigid wives. Mother and father love. Mothers adore their sons. Fathers partial to daughters. The flapper and her mother.
XXVI SHOULD WINTER MATE WITH SPRING? 251 Two disinterested brides. The case of Wagner. A parent fixation. Physical incompatibility. The plight of two neurotics. What will people say? Having her fixation-fling. Physical results. The fate of the younger mate. King David.
XXVII NEGATIVE LOVE 263 A "clean" life. Utterances and conduct. Oracles and prophecies. Can we save our vital force. Sublimation. The sexless. Ideal love. Protective measures. Lovers of the absolute. A troublesome patient. Higher aspirations.
XXVIII THE NEW WOMAN AND LOVE 275 George Bernard Shaw's view. The rebellion against nature. Woman in commercial life. Was it a sacrifice? The pursuit. The passing of respectable prostitution. The abettor of ethical sins. Health versus sickness. The passing of the flirt and of the doll. Modesty, old and new. The unadapted woman. The proud husband.
XXIX BIRTH CONTROL 291 What we expect of the modern woman. The only solution. The human milch cow. The nightmare of abortion. The plight of the neurotic woman. The child of the neurotic woman. Birth control and indulgence. A great love is a holy thing. The passing of the double standard.