On the Physiological Idiocy of Women

"With the words "physiological idiocy of women" I denote the fact that all brain functions of the healthy woman are lesser than that of the healthy man, if one disregards the love of children." P. Möbius
Оп the Physiological Idiocy of Women went through eight editions during his lifetime.
А polemic erupted with the puЬlication in 1903 of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character, both books dealing with the same subject, namely the essential differences between men and women. Weininger even went so far as to claim that Mбblus accused him of plagiarism. The later comments on the matter and clears it for his readers in his essay Sex and Immodesty.