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Stages of Sexual Development. The love-life is a most complex phase of our being, physically and mentally, and its influence and ramifications affect, for good or ill, the entire personality. If one has successfully passed through the sequence of stages of sexual development, and upon maturity finds the harmonious adjustment that can only be obtained normally by a felicitous mating, the individual then possesses an invaluable asset to health and happiness.

The gulf that separates the individual so fortunately situated, from those who experience a wide variety of maladjustments of personality and far-reaching neurotic disorders, is often due entirely to the warping, or frustration, of the sexual nature.