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thwarting nature they become incapable,"[1] and continued: "Directly a couple are living together in the intimacy of marriage, abstention appears to have a very deleterious effect" (p. 271).

This is confirmed also by Dr. Cooper,[2] who said: "Everything depends on the individual, but probably it may be laid down as a general rule that enforced and protracted continence is almost always injurious to a less or greater extent, according to its duration."

Dr. Robie, the famous American Sexologist, in a letter to me on this subject writes: "I can remember many men, clergymen and educators principally, who have denied themselves as a matter of principle, erroneously thinking thus to conserve their energies and attain to the highest mental efficiency. After convincing explanations they readily recovered, a part at least, of the virility that had been lost through repression; and it would be difficult to say to-day whether these men or their wives were most delighted at the

  1. ↑ Report of the National Birth Rate Commission, London, 1917. Pp. xiv, 450. See pp. 269-271.
  2. ↑ Arthur Cooper (1920): "The Sexual Disabilities of Man and their Treatment and Prevention." 4th ed. Pp. viii, 266; 2 illustrations. London, 1920.

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