[15] Stekel, W., in _The Homosexual Neurosis_ (Boston, 1922) says: “The evil effects produced upon the child witnessing marital bickerings, the household inspiration it receives with regard to judgment-feelings about women and men, the decisive manner in which parents affect it when they transfer their conflicts on the child—these capital facts the life histories of homosexuals given above illustrate very clearly for anyone willing to look squarely at the truth. We do not yet appreciate how careful we must be in our relations with the children. Our educators are still guilty of a serious blunder when they conceive their duty to be to instil goodness in the child through the instrumentality of fear. There are only two educational levers: one’s own example and—love. The healthiest children come from happy marriages. It is love that determines whether a marriage shall be a happy one and whether the offspring will be healthy or weak. The unconscious sexual instinct manifesting itself in love is the guide for the regeneration of the human race. Social conditions favouring early love marriages are the only social reform to which I look for results.” (Page 316.) [16] _The Glands Regulating Personality_, Macmillan, 1921. [17] See § 187. [18] §§ 128-169. [19] Dr. Alice B. Stockham, _Karezza: Ethics of Marriage_, N. Y., 1896. She recommends that both husband and wife refrain from the erotic acme. “During a lengthy period of perfect control, the whole being of each is merged into the other, and an exquisite exaltation experienced. This may be accompanied by a quiet motion, entirely under subordination of the will, so that the thrill of passion may not go beyond a pleasurable exchange.... With abundant time and mutual reciprocity the interchange becomes satisfactory and complete, without emission or crisis. In the course of an hour the physical tension subsides, the spiritual exaltation increases and not uncommonly visions of a transcendent life are seen and consciousness of new powers experienced.” (Page 25.) She suggests that such episodes should take place from two weeks to three months apart, and should be the only type of love episode except where procreation is desired. [20] _Beiträge zur Psychologie des Liebeslebens._ Psychoanalytische Jahrbuch (1910). [21] Harrow: _Glands in Health and Disease_, N. Y., 1922, p. 105. [22] For a discussion of masochism see §§ 177, 180. [23] For a discussion of the Mother-Imago see the chapter on Prostitution. [24] “When we say that for health any individual requires an adequate sexual outlet, it must be understood that this outlet may be secured in a great number of different ways. A person may be having regular and frequent sexual intercourse (excessive intercourse, in fact) without this affording him an adequate outlet, or preventing his libido from becoming dammed up.”—FRINK: _Morbid Fears and Compulsions_, p. 268. [25] LOMBROSO and FERRERO: ap. ELLIS, op. cit., VI, 415. [26] § 102.