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arbitrary standards of masculinity and femin- 

 inity, society has forced upon its members con- 

 formity to a uniform and institutionalized 

 type of sexual relationship. This institu- 

 tionaHzed and inflexible type of sexual activity, 

 which is the only expression of the sexual 

 emotion meeting with social approval, not only 

 makes no allowance for biological variations, 

 but takes even less into account the vastly 

 complex and exceedingly different conditionings 

 of the emotional reactions of the individual 

 sex Hfe. The resulting conflict between the 

 individual desires and the standards imposed by 

 society has caused a great deal of disharmony 

 in the psychic life of its members. The increas- 

 ing number of divorces and the modern tendency 

 to celibacy are symptomatic of the cumulative 

 effect of this fundamental psychic conflict. 



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