This lack of orgasm may also happen in normal women. The woman is generally slower to reach the height of the venereal paroxysm than the man. Ab initio commixtionis, she experiences a certain degree of libido that is of greater intensity than that of the man, i. e., the ant-orgastic libido is of higher value in women than in men. But this libido is not developed to its utmost extent, the orgasm, as rapidly as it is with the man. Still in the normal woman normal conditions will finally ensue after some experience—it is known that in women lustful feelings are not always brought about by the first contact,—while the conditions are entirely different in the partially impotent woman. No one man, except he be a eunuch, is ever able to satisfy her in a natural way. Her nervous system remains in a constant state of excitement to the highest degree, analogous to satyriasis in men. Her active potency appears to the superficial observer to be increased, it is almost inexhaustible. The following case will illustrate this point: A young lady, twenty-one years of age, for six months pregnant with her first child, showed at the examination normal internal genital organs, but small nymphae and an undeveloped clitoris. The patient coepit stuprum manu facere, tres annos nata, femora commissa fricando ultro citroque aut pulvillum aut aliam rem inter ea. As far as she can remember she always felt humorem in genitalibus suis after such manipulations. She practised stuprum manu several times daily until her marriage. Her husband left her in the first months of her pregnancy and she began to indulge in her favorite practices. “In coitione usitata frictiones continuas poscit”, and can endure them for hours. She claims to have the feeling of becoming wet several times during the “copulatione longa et continua,” but the libido does not materially increase cum humorem sentiat. The intensity of the libido remains always the same. She is continually uttering endearing words to her mate and is begging him, ne patiatur ejaculationem cito venire. She remains excited “postquam frictiones cessaverunt” and is always showing her disappointment when the penis “retractus est.” After a little while, her excitement gradually subsides, and the patient falls asleep. When she awakes she immediately “coitionem iterum poscit.” Here we have a case of a partially impotent woman whose anaesthesia and slight development of the clitoris was in all probability the result of her early practice of masturbation. The orgasm cannot be induced, but the ant-orgastic state is accompanied by libido of a considerable degree. The glands furnish enough secretion to give the feeling of moisture; there is no real ejaculation as in normal congressus.