Lover's World, The.
Stockham, Alice B., M.D. The Lover’s World. A Wheel of Life. Chicago: Stockham Publishing Co., (1903).
8vo.; 13 pages of ads in the rear; frontispiece portrait photograph of Carmen Sylva; initials and date on title and first text page; brown cloth, stamped in darker brown; near fine.
First edition of Stockham’s “treatise on Love and the appropriation and mastery of sexual energy, the use of passion and creative force” (from the Greeting).
For the first time definite instructions are put in print for the training, mastery and transmutation of creative energy, the use and appropriation of passion. Through this definite training one holds the key to health, power and longevity.
Stockham bases this volume on the integral role of sex—for men as well as women—in a spiritually perfected life:
Perfect sexual control is obtained through a perfected manhood and womanhood. The sexual life is part of the entire life, so as the Lover’s World deals with all stages of life, is a Wheel of Life, each chapter, each precept, directly or indirectly, is intended as a help to mastery. One can not separate and perfect the sexual life by itself. One must have a philosophy upon which to base conduct and learn to govern life by that philosophy.
With 13 pages of ads in the rear heralding books published by Stockham’s publishing concern, each about some aspect of sex, love, or marriage, and several written by Stockham herself. According to the ad for this volume printed in the rear, The Lover’s World “supplies the hunger-cry of humanity upon vital subjects.” One of the first female doctors in the United States, Stockham is best known as the earliest advocate of tantric sex in this country. Her Tokology (1883) is a foundational work in the field of female sexuality, and was arguably the most popular sex manual in 19th century America. Other works include Koradine (with Lida Hood Talbot), Creative Life, Karezza: Ethics of Marriage, and John and Mary in the Home.
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