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knowledge of women's psycho-physiological life."

Accepting then as one axiom that normal women do have spontaneous sex desires, the second axiom I would have you accept before we investigate contraceptives, is that the best times for the coital act are those when both the husband and the wife have mutual desire. Then only is the act perfectly performed and of fullest physiological and psychological benefit.

Hence the proper form of contraceptive must be one available at any time by the pair: and so the "safe period" often advocated by those who pose as moralists is not satisfactory (see also p. 84). The proper contraceptive must also be one which permits the natural and complete contact between the tumescent sex organs; hence from the nature of things all sheaths and coverings worn by the man have serious disadvantages (see also p. 125).

Finally, the theoretically perfect contraceptive should be so unobtrusive as not to obtrude on the consciousness of either party during or immediately after the coital act. In my opinion, in coitus, any mental or psychical injury is quite as harmful as any physical one.

What then have we at the present time