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natural completion and resolution of the stimulus of coitus. In this connection they should be encouraged, to read "Married Love," particularly Chapter VI.^[1] It should further be pointed out that the tendency of the woman to become a passive and fear-ridden instrument is also detrimental to the husband, particularly to one of a sensitive disposition, because a nice man does not like to feel that he is merely "using" his wife, and in real marriage mutual enjoyment and mutual completion of the orgasm should be the rule.

As a method, therefore, it is unreliable, and its other detrimental effects lead me to condemn it entirely as a voluntary method to control conception.

The facts noted above, however, are of interest, particularly when viewed as a natural method of involuntary control. The lack of orgasm in a woman of the type which has rather an excess of acid secretion in the vagina may definitely lead sometimes to undesired sterility. Such cases should be critically studied, particularly in view of Pell's position concerning the prevalence of a natural fall in the birth rate (see also p. 87 et seq).