When girls so brought up are married it is a _rape_ for the husband to insist on his "marital rights" at once. It will be difficult or impossible for such a bride ever after to experience the joys of sex-union, for such a beginning must imprint upon her consciousness the view that the man's animal nature dominates him. In a magazine I came across a poem which vividly expresses this peculiarly feminine sorrow: ... To mate with men who have no soul above Earth grubbing; who, the bridal night, forsooth, Killed sparks that rise from instinct fires of life, And left us frozen things, alone to fashion Our souls to dust, masked with the name of wife-- Long years of youth--love years--the years of passion Yawning before us. So, shamming to the end, All shrivelled by the side of him we wed, Hoping that peace may riper years attend, Mere odalisques are we--well housed, well fed. KATHERINE NELSON. Many men who enter marriage sincerely and tenderly may yet have some previous experience of bought "love." It is then not unlikely that they may fall into the error of explaining their wife's experiences in terms of the reactions of the prostitute. They argue that, because the prostitute showed physical excitement and pleasure in union, if the bride or wife does not do so, then she is "cold" or "under-sexed." They may not realise that often all the bodily movements which the prostitute makes are studied and simulated because her client enjoys his climax best when the woman in his arms simultaneously thrills. As Forel says ("The Sexual Question," 1908, Engl. trans.): "The company of prostitutes often renders men incapable of understanding feminine psychology, for prostitutes are hardly more than automata trained for the use of male sensuality. When men look among these for the sexual psychology of woman they find only their own mirror."