A technique of the love episode has been described and advocated under several names (Karezza, Male Continence, Dr. Zugassent’s Discovery, etc.) which consists in that degree of virile control whereby, while the erotic acme may be produced in the wife, the husband reserves his. There is no doubt whatever that this technique is of greatest possible advantage to the wife, if she herself reaches the acme. Opinions differ as to its possible harm for the husband. It was the principle which the Oneida Community (organized in 1847 and discontinued as a eugenic experiment in 1879) followed for the 30 years of its existence with no observable injury to the men. It is also spontaneously discovered and sporadically used by married couples at the present day independently of the propaganda in its favour, conducted by a woman writer who has published the book _Karezza_.[19] There is also no doubt whatever that only a comparatively few men are willing, and some fewer are quite unable to control themselves to this degree necessary to postpone their own erotic acme until a future time. The ability to do this is the most potent factor possible in producing that superiority of virile over feminine power which forms the greatest fusing medium between the two partners. § 101 Indeed, it may be confidently asserted that the accomplishment of this erotic _tour de force_ on the part of the husband (during which he may observe the greatest possible effect that man can have upon woman) gives the husband a sense of exaltation that could not be paralleled, a feeling of power that produces in him a keenness and penetrating sense of satisfaction that he has never before felt. After an experience of this kind, he is fully alive, as he never was before, to the possibilities of erotic ecstasy emanating from the preliminaries and every several and separate phase of the love episode as responded to by his wife. This entire reconstruction of the love episode not only throws into strong light the value of the preliminary and intermediary phases of the love episode, but it puts, in the husband’s mind, so much value on the first and second acts of the play that the actual occurrence of his own erotic acme has then a much lessened importance. If he can so transform his wife, as he sees her transformed before his very eyes, and perceives in every sense quality of consciousness, and if he can thus express his love any time he wishes, his former hurried, perfunctory and mechanical sexuality appears to him as a dried leaf as compared to the full-blown rose of his present triumph. He recognizes that he has stepped from one level of existence to a higher plane of life, and that he is human in a new and enlarged sense. § 102