The Lover's World

Alice Bunker Stockham 1833-1912 was an obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago an enthusiastic fighter for a marital and sexual reform. In 1886 her self-publishing company released Tokology A Book for Every Woman. This health guide became a bestseller. In 1896 she published Karezza. Ethics of Marriage an outstanding plea for sexual reform and birth control. Her magnum opus The Lover's World A Wheel of Life published in 1903 is based on her former works comprehending all of her theoretical and practical knowledge as a medical doctor social reformer and spiritual thinker. Stockham's opus combines medical ethical anthropological social philosophical cross-cultural mystical and religious perspectives. It is a key work for understanding the social political and intellectual situation in the United States and partially also in Europe about 1900. Her ideas are still very challenging nowadays regarding the crucial relation between sexuality and love a controversial topic of all time.