title: Modesty:  An Adornment for Life
author: Pesach Eliyahu Falk
description: Until I read this book I had no idea what "modesty" really was. We say that we're "modest" but without dressing properly and acting in a certain way, we are deceiving ourselves! -- <i>Review</i>
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  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1
  
  
  [GENERAL
  PREFACE.](Studies%20in%20the%20Psychology%20of%20Se_split_001.html#filepos17459)
  
  [PREFACE TO THE THIRD
  EDITION.](Studies%20in%20the%20Psychology%20of%20Se_split_001.html#filepos25790)
  
  [PREFACE TO THE FIRST
  EDITION.](Studies%20in%20the%20Psychology%20of%20Se_split_001.html#filepos27370)
  
  
  [THE EVOLUTION OF
  MODESTY.](Studies%20in%20the%20Psychology%20of%20Se_split_002.html#filepos41038)
  
  
    
    
  [I. The Definition of Modesty—The Significance of
  
  
  Modesty—Difficulties in the Way of Its Analysis—The Varying Phenomena
  
  
  of Modesty Among Different Peoples and in Different Ages.  
    
  [II. Modesty an Agglomeration of Fears—Children in
  
  
  Relation to Modesty—Modesty in Animals—The Attitude of the Medicean
  
  
  Venus—The Sexual Factor of Modesty Based on Sexual Periodicity and on
  
  
  the Primitive Phenomena of Courtship—The Necessity of Seclusion in
  
  
  Primitive Sexual Intercourse—The Meaning of Coquetry—The 