Sex in History: A Virgin Field.

The author reflects on the reluctance of historians to research the place of sex in history. The author cites a theory for the beginnings of civilization offered by neurologist and psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, who argued that civilization was due to the sublimation of the sexual instinct. To the author's knowledge, no historian or prehistorian has ever seriously examined the Freudian concept about the origins of civilization of the beginnings of the state.