The Sexual Relations of Mankind

Paolo Mantegazza is remembered mainly as a "sex writer", which is sometimes a term of reproach, sometimes a term of honor. As a delineator of love, Mantegazza has never been surpassed and rarely equaled; he has faults as a writer, but they are invariably the faults of superabundance from the depths of his nature there poured a thousand pages surcharged with passion and never of emotional poverty.