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advantage of this to the community is still more obvious.

Incidentally in connection with such cases as this the most difficult and obstinate to deal with successfully is the type of woman who either instinctively, or through early training or by contact with others, has acquired the view that all sex union after the procreation of the desired number of children has been accomplished, is wrong. Such views are often extremely difficult to eradicate and require both great tact and patience on the part of the husband and consultant, but where the woman is normally constituted the effort is well worth while both on behalf of her health and that of her husband and family. Dr. Robie's books give at first hand many cases of this sort (see p. 99).

The point of view indicated in the first chapter of this book is one on which great stress should be laid, when dealing with such cases. The reasons for sexual intercourse should be explained, and the woman told that the complete act of coitus has a mutual physiological value apart from its procreative power, and the seminal fluid of the man has accessory qualities apart from its procreative capacity, and that the man is not being merely "selfish" and "self-indul-