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(2024) . \"Sexuality and Emotion\" . In M. E. Wiesner-Hanks and M. Kuefler (Eds. ), The Cambridge World History of Sexualities (pp. 388-409) . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  \nDOI: [https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895996.019](https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895996.019)  \nCopyright: The Author(s)  \nChapter  \nSexuality and Emotion  \nKatie Barclay  \n[A]ll the accessories, physical and psychical, which accompany female instincts in the invertebrates (parental love) must be considered as fairly equal to correlative male instincts (sexual love) . The one impels to the initiation, the other to the preservation, of offspring; the one leads to vivid, concentrated impulses; the other to calmer, selfforgetting, steady affection: both united, to the higher and higher development of the race (Antoinette Blackwell, Sexes Throughout Nature, 1875, 62) . 1  \nAntoinette Blackwell (1825-1921) was an American minister and natural scientist who offered a feminist corrective to Darwin’s theory of evolution, suggesting that the history of human development was one of cooperation, rather than conflict. Central to her argument was that the central animal instinct – sexual desire – that Darwin posited drove evolutionary behaviour was countered by another, parental love, which ensured the preservation of the species. Notably Blackwell describes both of these ‘instincts’ as love, building on a natural history of the human that had emphasised the importance of ‘natural affection’, a type of  \nlove, to species survival since at least the seventeenth century.2 If ‘love’ had long been  \n1 Antoinette Blackwell, Sexes Throughout Nature (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1875), 62.  \n2 Sherrin Marshall,‘“Dutiful Love and Natural Affection”: Parent-Child Relationships in the Early Modern Netherlands’, in Early Modern Europe: Issues and Interpretation, ed. James B. Collins and Karen L. Taylor (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 138-52; Katie Barclay,‘Natural  \nassociated with human existence, sexual desire was arguably a more modern emotion, a feeling that came into its own as biologists and later sexologists placed this embodied experience as a critical explanatory tool for gendered behaviours, sexual practices, and personal identity. As this also suggests, sexual feeling – like other emotions – has a history, which shapes not only how it has been explained and described but how it has been experienced.  \nThe history of emotions operates on the premise that emotions are both biological – of the body – and cultural, where the latter plays a strong role in shaping embodied experience. What we name an emotion, when we should feel such an experience, how we evaluate such feeling as positive or negative, and how we should respond to such an emotion, are all products of cultural training, engrained and embodied ‘habits’.3 As different cultures – different times and places – have distinct emotion words and concepts, that don’t always map easily to other contexts, the experience of emotion is not universal but specific to particular environments. Importantly this applies not only to some of the more ‘abstract’ feelings – such as love or hate – where we might more easily recognise their cultural dimensions, but to those that we view as critical to the functioning of the animal body, including pain and in this chapter, sexual desire.  \nPain – a well-studied emotion – is perhaps a useful counterpoint for a history of sexual feeling. While long assumed to be a human universal, studies of pain emphasise its  \nAffection, the Patriarchal Family and the “Strict Settlement” Debate: a Response from the History of Emotions’, Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation 58, no. 3 (2017) : 309-20 3 There are a number of useful introductions to the field including Jan Plamper, The History of Emotions: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015); Barbara Rosenweinand Riccardo Cristiani, What is the History of Em","cbCaiiOVsnN5g23F","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiOVsnN5g23F","pdf",386907,31,"English","# Sexuality and Emotion\n## Love as biological and cultural instinct\n## Emotion history: bodily experience and cultural training\n## Pain as a counterpoint to sexual feeling\n## Debates on procreation and the study of sexuality","[{\"question\":\"How does the chapter connect sexual desire and parental love?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that both can be described as forms of \\\"love\\\": sexual desire supports initiation, while parental love supports preservation of offspring. 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