Private Sex Advice to Women: For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married

The love-life of the woman is far fuller and more absorbing than is that of the man. It was considered most pious and spiritual to forego the ordinary human relations of sex, marriage and parenthood. Parenthood on the part of the diseased, the insane, the alcoholic—where these conditions promise to be transmitted—must be denounced as a crime against the future. The burden of bearing excessive children on the overworked and underfed mothers of the working classes becomes at last so intolerable that almost anything seems better than another child.