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THE all too prevalent idea that in coitus woman a passive instrument and the man guilty of "self-indulgence" or "allowing relief to his baser nature" is wrong. This false and foul-minded idea is the source of an incalculable amount of racial injury.

It is essential first to be explicit about the fact that the coital act is an extremely complex social function in which the woman (as well as the man) is an active partner, and from which both derive physical, mental, and spiritual benefit if this act is fully and correctly performed.

The realization that the woman should be an active and joyous partner in the act may be thought by some to require demonstration, as even by medical practitioners this has often been denied. That a normally healthy woman has an active sex life with spontaneous requirements different from, yet