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This book is made up of the following chapters: I. Introductory. 2. An Outline Map of the Subject. 3. A New Theory of Kissing, etc. 4. Medical Women in the Future. 5. Further on Walt Whitman. 6. A New Male Homosexual Trait. 7. The Artist and the Savage. 8. Miscegenation and Atavism.
This book is too discursive and casually written to make it possible to select any main thesis for review. It is partly autobiographical, and the author ranges over a very great number of aspects of sexuality. We cannot discern much scientific value in it. The 'New Theory of Kissing' would derive the act from the impulse to lubricate by means of the saliva the organs used in coitus. The 'New Male Homosexual Trait' relates to special fondness for cats, a conclusion which can to some extent be supported by clinical experience, though the author does not appear to understand the meaning of the connection. Freud's theory of sexuality is here and there referred to, but it is not applied very seriously to any problem.