Vita Sexualis

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Summary: Sexuality and the Intellectual
Review: This book is supposedly a guide to sex written by a philosopher for his son. Actually is a semi-auotobiographical novel in which the Meiji writer Mori Ogai is able to describe his sexual maturation from the time he was a child to his early adult hood. This book is a fascinating read that gives the reader a close look at the early life of Mori Ogai who not only was one of the best early Japanese novelists, but also excelled in the medical field, becoming Japan's Surgeon Genearl. By today's standards the sexual activities in this book might not seem very explicit, but at the time it was rare for sexuality at all to be mentioned in literature.