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- adjective sociology Concerning the economics of human sexuality.
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Examples
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A CONDITION so long established, so widespread, so permanent as the sexuo-economic relation in the human species could not have been introduced and maintained in the course of social evolution without natural causes and uses.
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We have our hand upon this hidden spring in the sexuo-economic relation.
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It will be still less true when we are released from the artificial pressure of the sexuo-economic relation and grow natural again.
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Against this social tendency runs the cross-current of our sexuo-economic relation, making the preparation of food a sex function, and confusing all its processes with the ardor of personal affection and the dragging weight of self-interest.
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The sexuo-economic relation serves to bring social development to a certain level.
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This is the way in which the sexuo-economic relation has operated in our species, checking race-development in half of us, and stimulating sex-development in both.
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To explain and relate these phenomena, separating what is due to normal race-development from what is due to this abnormal sexuo-economic relation, is the purpose of the line of study here suggested.
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The sexuo-economic relation has its inevitable ill-effects on both motherhood and fatherhood.
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AS WE learn to see how close is the connection of that which we call the soul with our external conditions, how the moral sense and the behavior of man are modified by the environment, we must of course look for marked results in psychic development arising from so important a condition as our sexuo-economic relation.
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Yet here, as in the other evil results of the sexuo-economic relation, we can see the accompanying good that made the condition necessary in its time; and we can follow the beautiful results of our present changes with comforting assurance.
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