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This book is a sexology or an erotology dealing with such topics as the true conception of marriage, modern emotional unrest, the emotions, the instincts, the love episode, unhappy marriages, hologamy and prostitution, in which the author attempts to show how husbands and wives can so control their sexual situation as to maintain a true eroticism that will tend to lessen both prostitution and divorce, as well as make more unnecessary the tight bond which operates to make many marriages an imprisonment for those concerned.
Throughout the book there is much repetition to emphasize the role of the husband in marriage the real happiness of which depends solely on his consciously planned intelligent behavior which must dominate the erotic situation. Any love is essentially effeminate and not virile when it depends upon being charmed by a woman. The man should be the charmer, and the moment he surrenders to her charm he becomes an autoerotic child, so any marriage depending upon the wife's charm is bound to dissolve actually or potentially. It seems that the author has used the term charm here much too loosely; it should be better denned, and perhaps differentiated from attraction as the word is understood in the popular sense.
The husband who does not dominate the erotic situation, but is hasty, thereby demonstrates his mental autoerotism, he loves himself, or the results his wife produces in him. Psychoanalysis has proven that no woman can be dominated by an infantile man who is seeking the mother image in his love life, since it is only by the exercise of a self control