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CONTRACEPTION

complete union.[1] The woman is also deprived of the possibility of the man's penis interlocking with the cervix (which alone makes an absolutely complete and perfect union).

The effect on the woman's feelings at the time are rather well described by a patient of Booth's,[2] who "confessed the practice, and when pressed for a description of her feelings after the act, replied that the only way she knew how to express it was that 'she felt like she wanted to sneeze and couldn't.'"

The woman subjected to this process is also deprived of the possibility, after the union has been completed, of the beneficial absorption from the seminal and prostatic fluids. I have many cases of private persons who look upon it as certain in their own lives or that of their friends that not only the orgasm in coitus, but also the presence of the seminal fluids is beneficial to women.

Various detrimental effects of coitus interruptus were explicitly made clear in "Wise Parenthood" in 1918, and since

  1. ↑ M. Porosz (1911): Brit. Journ. Med., April, p. 784.
  2. ↑ David S. Booth (1906): "Coitus Interruptus and Coitus Reservatus as Causes of Profound Neuroses and Psychoses," Alienist and Neurologist, vol. xxvii, No. 4, pp. 397-406, St. Louis, U.S.A., 1906.

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