Excerpt from Rational Sex Ethics, Vol. 2: A More Intensive Study of Sex Histories, Case Histories, and Dreams, With Therapeutic Suggestions, and Philosophical Deductions

One year ago, ten years after most of Rational Sex Ethics was written, the book was placed in the hands Of the professions. This was done with mingled feel ings on the part Of the author. His facts were beyond cavil and, if his reasoning was as logical as he had tried to make it, his conclusions were inevitable. Yet these conclusions were in some respects so much at variance with ideas long accepted both by the medical profes sion and by the laity that their brusque dismissal was possible, without due consideration Of the facts pre sented and without weighing the accumulation Of evi dence recently brought forward, which corroborated or possibly antedated the author's conclusions. It is with surprise and with feelings akin to chagrin rather than with those Of self-felicitation that he now states that, save one, be neither has seen nor heard Of a sin gle unkind or severe criticism. He was told that a sharp and rather derogatory review appeared in a not over prominent medical journal, but the reader had forgotten the name Of the journal, and the author has sought for it in vain. This lack Of criticism has not been from neglect, for there has been a steady and in creasing demand for the book. Scores of physicians, whose attainments and judgment have been most highly respected, but whom the writer formerly would have classed as ultra-conservative, have personally com mended his work in no uncertain terms. An increas.

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