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CHAPTER TWO

not entirely incompatible with, those of her male partner, must be accepted as an axiom before contraceptives can be intelligently discussed. Some aspects of this fact are given in "Married Love,"[1] to which readers should refer. In that book for the first time were published charts of woman's spontaneous rhythm of sex desire, and about this demonstration Dr. Havelock Ellis, the great sexologist, wrote in the Medical Review of Reviews, bringing contributory evidence[2] from two other aspects of woman's sex life to indicate the correctness of the Stopes curve in having two wave crests of spontaneous desire in each menstrual month. Ellis concluded his account of his independent lines of evidence by saying, "It is remarkable that they should both confirm what we must regard as the two essential points in Dr. Stopes' teaching: (1) the regular existence in women of a menstrual wave of sexual desire, and (2) the occurrence in that wave of two crests. This seems to represent the most notable advance made during recent years in the

  1. ↑ M. C. Stopes, "Married Love" (First Edit., 1918). See Tenth Edit. Pp. 191. London, 1922.
  2. ↑ Havelock Ellis (1919), "The Menstrual Curve of Sexual Impulse in Women." Medical Review of Reviews, Vol. xxv, No. 2, pp. 73–77. New York, February, 1919.

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