Unfortunately, the infantile condition can completely satisfy, consciously, the infant of adult size. This makes it difficult to approach him, makes him difficult of access. If one present him with a fully developed adult woman, he immediately recoils much farther into his youth which he regards as a fine quality. Because of the uncomfortable nature of the comparison he unconsciously sees his inferiority and unconsciously compensates for it, by getting (in the only way he can) the feeling of satisfaction that comes _via_ mental autoerotism whenever it fails to be obtained from the outside world. Adult society always produces this reaction somewhere in the sub-adult psyche; so it becomes a great problem, to devise some method for getting the sub-adult to desire to react in adult modes. § 191 Any plurality of women for a man implies reservation. He cannot love all of a woman entirely who thinks he loves in any degree any other woman. If for example he “loved” one woman for her hair and another for her eyes, another for her smile, this could not be called love, but only physical sex stimulation, or fetishism. Man’s supposed love of more than one woman is where his reservation makes him love one woman consciously and the others unconsciously. But conscious love is not complete love either, so that a man who consciously loves his wife, but is not able to arouse in her the erotic acme for any reason, cannot really be said to love her. He may rationalize to himself that his wife is a good mother to his children, a good housewife, patient, painstaking, self-sacrificing; but that other women whom he has seen interest him more in various intellectual spheres. His wife could not be a brilliant pianist, good conversationalist, noted writer, artist, and singer, all at the same time. It would be a physical impossibility. He is interested in all those spheres in other women; why should he not find pleasure in their company? Why should he not call love that interest which the thought-provoking, intellectually stimulating woman arouses in him? Simply because he would not and probably could not evoke in her the fullest erotic reaction, and probably has not in his own wife. Plurality of women would compare with Guyot’s violinist who should say he could play “Yankee Doodle” only on one violin and only a concerto on another, or could play only in E flat Major on one, and A flat Minor on another, needing a different instrument for each of the twenty-four keys.