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 active reproductive life. That is, the erotic impulse continues to manifest itself after the cessation of menstrual activity, when the possibility of conception has passed. It appears, therefore, that sexual desire is not necessarily dependent upon ovulation.

Probably no other individual has written so extensively and at the same time so wisely of sex matters as Havelock Ellis, who speaks of the differential characters of the sexual impulse in the female as follows:

Ellis further maintains that the source of erotic pleasure in the case of the male lies in activity, but in the female in the passive state, in the experience of loving compulsion, as it were, and he holds that sexual subordination is a necessary element in the sexual enjoyment of women.

Whereas the male reproductive organs are for the most part located outside the body, the female organs of genera-