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that they shock the sense of delicacy in the users' is an oft repeated theme. This idea was discussed by Forel, by myself and many others, and Havelock Ellis^[1] well summed up the answer to this objection as follows:—(p. 73) "Eye-glasses are equally unæsthetic, yet they are devices, based on nature, wherewith to supplement the deficiencies of nature. However in themselves unæsthetic, for those who need them they make the æsthetic possible. Eye-glasses and contraceptives alike are a portal to the spiritual world for many who, without them, would find that world largely a closed book."

In this country there are none, as there are not and never have been laws against contraception in Great Britain. Such laws have existed in America since the seventies, and in France since 1920. Their scope is given in detail in Chapter XII, p. 336. Yet, in this country, one sometimes comes across the false statement that contraception is illegal. It is not.

The practice of medicine is, of course in no way involved in any particular