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All these were exceptionally intelligent people and all spoke enthusiastically of it. As I stated in "Married Love," however, I do not think it suited to the requirements of the average healthy man or woman. One case known to me failed without the man's knowledge and pregnancy resulted in the wife.

I have some details from a correspondent about a small colony for its practice founded in this country, but the data seem to me to be still insufficient to convince others of the claims made by those who practise this.

Case No. 1,001. A British man describes himself, "It was not until at 53 I was married and could test the Oneida method, but when I did so, I found it easy, healthful, safe, and all that could be desired." He continues to eulogize the method and says what "puzzles me is the persistency of European writers to ignore the best check of all, as many think, and the only check which has been thoroughly investigated (in the U.S.A.) medically, socially, and in every other way." In addition to the large-scale experiment in Oneida, "Recently in England a group of eight intellectuals put male continence to the