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CHAPTER FIVE

  1. at least a little "queer" and fidgety if not actually irritable.
  2. The normally sexed, healthy man, if on good terms and affectionately disposed towards his wife will probably be subjected to a strain which will be detrimental to his health, tending to nervous reactions, sleeplessness, possibly debilitating nocturnal emissions and to a development of irritability and general lack of sense of wellbeing and nervous control.
  3. The third, or possibly oversexed type of man will, it is almost certain, give up the struggle after some time has elapsed and add to the number of those who support prostitution and illicit mistresses.

Similarly the effects on the woman would be as follows:—

  1. If she is of the "frigid" or undersexed type, she may imagine that she feels better without union, but at the same time she will probably develop some form of sleeplessness, digestive complaint, nervousness or hysteria. She will probably resent any indication that she would be better for the normal sex act as she will be of the type who considers herself "superior" to ordinary human sex life. If she is of the extremely ascetic type, reasoned argument will probably not prevail and the situation

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