Sexual Selection in Man Author:Havelock Ellis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: F. A. Davis company Subjects: Sex Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Book... more »s.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: HBAEING. The Physiological Basis of Rhythm -- Rhythm as a Physiological Stimulus -- The Intimate Relation of Rhythm to Movement -- The Physiological Influence of Music on Muscular Action, Circulation, Respiration, etc. -- The Place of Music in Sexual Selection among the Lower Animals -- Its Comparatively Small Place in Courtship among Mammals -- The Larynx and Voice in Man -- The Significance of the Pubertal Changes- Ancient Beliefs Concerning the Influence of Music in Morals, Education, and Medicine -- -Its Therapeutic Uses -- Significance of the Romantio Interest in Music at Puberty -- Men Comparatively Insusceptible to the Specifically Sexual Influence of Music -- Rarity of Sexual Perversions on the Basis of the Sense of Hearing -- The Part of Music in Primitive Human Courtship -- Women Notably Susceptible to the Specifically Sexual Influence of Music and the Voice. The sense of rhythm -- on which It may be said that the sensory exciting effects of hearing, including music, finally res -- may probably be regarded as a fundamental quality of neurc- muscular tissue. Not only are the chief physiological functions of the body, like the circulation and the respiration, definitely rhythmical, but our senses insist on imparting a rhythmic grouping even to an absolutely uniform succession of sensations. It seems probable, although this view is still liable to be disputed, that this rhythm is the result of kinaesthetic sensations, -- sensations arising from movement or tension started reflexly in the muscles by the external stimuli, -- impressing themse...« less