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96 Catharine Beecher says in her book on Female Ailments, as to the proportion of women diseased sexually within her extensive observation and careful personal inquiry, that it exceeds twenty-nine in every thirty. My own average is, that not one woman in one hundred has a fair amount of sexual vigor, and that at least nine in every ten, if not nineteen in every twenty, are more or less prostrated, or else actually diseased sexually.

To a strongly sexed woman there are periods when intercourse should be repugnant, and if her instinct does not indicate these periods, and if she does not respect them and compel her husband to do likewise, there is small chance for happiness in such a marriage. Marriage under such condition is like an engine without a governor, a ship without a rudder. Excess that is limited only by the extreme exhaustion of the physical forces can rarely be avoided. It is almost as sure to result as day is to follow