The sexes in Tocqueville's America -- The American man -- The arena -- Work and sex -- Democratic fathers and democratic sons -- Freedom of intercourse -- Strong men over orderly women -- From midwives to gynecologists -- The abscence of midwives from America -- Democratic doctors -- The rise of gynecology -- Architect of the vagina -- Sexual surgery -- The lightning-rod man -- The Reverend John Todd -- Primers for anxiety -- Todd's masturbation phobia -- The spermatic economy and proto-sublimation -- Men earn -- women spend -- Woman's refinement -- Sex and anarchy -- From mother to Mother Earth -- Augustus Kinsley Gardner -- Dr. Gardner's education -- Gardner's career -- The physical decline of American women -- Punishng women -- The great organ of communication.