The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races: An Interpretation

"The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races: An Interpretation" by Sanger Brown is a study from the early 1900s that looks at the importance of sex worship in early societies and what it tells us about how our minds work. The story looks at how this kind of worship changed over time and how it fits into bigger ideas about religion and mental health. The author starts by explaining how studying old beliefs, especially those about sex, can help the field of psychiatry, suggesting that looking at sex worship can reveal insights into the shared mindset of early groups, connecting old rituals to modern psychology. By using historical examples from different cultures, Brown argues that sex worship wasn't just something people did in the past but an important way of expressing the human drive to reproduce, which has shaped what we believe and how our societies are structured today.