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tion) is once more the condom. When it is used, coitus runs a perfectly normal course with the sole exception of the sensation during ejaculation." The coarse insensitiveness of attitude that can consider this last objection as existing, and yet state that the "act of coitus runs a perfectly normal course" seems to me deplorable. Yet this crude and ignorant statement has had a wide influence on men's attitude towards the whole subject. Bloch does not in this connection even perceive the great harm done to the woman by this method (see p. 127). Kisch also says that "When the man is fully potent the use of condoms can do no harm to the woman, since the only effect of the condom (in a very excitable woman) is to render the development of the orgasm a little more difficult, but not to prevent it." Kisch is emphatic in favour of the condom,^[1] saying, "It is my opinion that the most trustworthy and least harmful measure at present available, and one preferable to all other mechanical apparatus, is a carefully selected and well made condom."

A remark, almost as crude, showing both ignorance concerning sensitive women's