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 apologetic about it. It is absolutely advisable to make this fact known to one's partner in love. He will, of course, if you are both feeling positionally experimental, return to the position you prefer when you are ready to have your climax.

A psychiatrist is asked a wide variety of questions about sexuality by his patients. Here are some of the more frequent areas about which individuals seem to wish further information:

(1) Frequency of intercourse

There are no rules whatever about this, though suggestions about what is "normal" have been made from earliest times. Mohammed the Prophet stated that once a week was best; Martin Luther found that twice a week "does harm neither to her nor to me."

In these days of sociological studies there have of course been endless attempts to find the statistical norm for frequency of intercourse. The Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in 1933 released figures showing that, of ten thousand cases investigated, sexual intercourse occurred from one to three times per week—4 per cent had intercourse one or more times daily. Kinsey found that frequency depended greatly on the age of the husband; men between twenty-one and twenty-five showed an intercourse rate of just over three times per week; those between thirty-one and thirty-five showed a frequency rate of a little more than twice a week; those aged forty-one to forty-five had intercourse on an average of one and one half times a week; and men over fifty-six averaged less than once a week.

These studies, of course, always show wide variations in individual cases.

In my opinion frequency of intercourse is entirely an in