Sex and Sex Worship

This text is a scientific treatise on sex, its nature and function, and its influence on art, science architecture, and religion - with special reference to sex worship and symbolism.

In 1918 the author was asked to write his studies on sex for publication, in order that the work might not be lost. And the views on these subjects have materially changed among the learned among the public since the time when the collection of this information was first begun, and this book is the result.

The facts gathered about phallic religion led Dr. Wall to doubt whether this was ever a religion from all other religions apart; it appeared to Dr. Wall to be merely a phase in the evolution of all religions. Nor was it a real worship of the generative organs, but rather a use of representations of the phallus and yoni as symbols for certain religious ideas which were embodied in nature-worship.

In recording here what Dr. Wall found in his reading and the conclusions at which he had arrived, he does not attempt to even approximately exhaust the vast field of details. But he attempts to present the truths as recorded in history, as he saw them.