190 SEX 



creeds and civilisations rise and fall, the 

 eternal sacrifice of humanity, blasted for the 

 sins of the people." 



Two STANDARDS. Most men of good-will 

 are agreed as to the ideal that men should 

 be as controlled and chaste as good women. 

 Many experts on sex-physiology have declared 

 that the attainment of this ideal would do 

 no harm. Self-controlled men, at all ages, 

 are daily proving that the ideal can be 

 realised. Yet too many " men of the world " 

 declare that the ideal referred to is absurdly 

 Utopian for ordinary masculine flesh and 

 blood as known to-day. But even if it be 

 the case that many must consume their 

 living with harlots, which we do not for 

 a moment believe, it does not follow that 

 this is inevitable on the part of the more 

 individuated. 



It is often stated (by careful students of 

 sex, as well as by the careless) that the normal 

 Man's sexual appetites are, on an average, 

 far keener and more insistent than those of 

 the normal Woman. It is impossible for men 

 without much (and obviously very difficult) 

 consultation with good women to pronounce 

 on such a matter, and perhaps there is a 

 tendency to exaggerate the difference. Men 

 know one side of the comparison, women 

 know the other; the difficulty of collating 

 them is obvious. We may refer, in illustra- 

 tion, to the fact that a woman's desire for 

 sexual gratification, though it often needs clam- 

 ant awakening, may become extraordinarily 

 tyrannous sometimes fatally tyrannous to 

 her husband or second husband ; and, on the 



