sex-instinct

It is your sex-instinct, your sinful sex-instinct which prevents you worshipping the higher form of beauty.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Such a golden mean I find on the other side of the Atlantic, where the sex-instinct and marriage are regarded more sanely and naturally than on this side.

Courtship After Marriage 1969

First of all, I accuse the spirit of Puritanism for having fostered a false attitude toward the sex-instinct.

Courtship After Marriage 1969

Preachers, moralists, psychologists, and writers of various kinds have all united to represent the sex-instinct as exotic and unreal.

Courtship After Marriage 1969

Page 97, Volume 4 cal examples from Australian aboriginal society, his reconstruction of this primeval drama had the sanction of no archeological or anthropological evidence; how - ever, its novel interpretation of the sex-instinct as the source of religion caused much excitement and gave it a publicity which it did not deserve on scientific grounds.

ORIGINS OF RELIGION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

The relation of the sexes has always been a deep concern of human society even in most primitive forms of social order, but after men knew the connection between the gratification of sex-instinct and the procreative function, they began to reason about and to make more definite the customs that outlined permitted marriage.

The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer

For in the majority of men there are certain instincts so strong and so dangerous - as, the sex-instinct, the craving for stimulants and excitement-that where no repressive principle exists they tend to override the grumblings of prudence and drag their possessor to disaster.

Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

The combative instinct, pride, obstinacy, and notably the sex-instinct, were from earliest times spurring men on to a disregard of the conventional and the formation of individual standards.

Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

Such a golden mean I find on the other side of the Atlantic, where the sex-instinct and marriage are regarded more sanely and naturally than on this side.

Courtship After Marriage 1921

First of all, I accuse the spirit of Puritanism for having fostered a false attitude toward the sex-instinct.

Courtship After Marriage 1921