But since sexuality is a social instinct, and is at the root of love, its repression may lead to something equally fanatic, but of a different nature. The crusading spirit, instead of being prohibitive, calls the world to salvation. The revivalist appears, or the bringer of a new religion, or the founder of a sect. There is a feverish attempt to convert and to “save the world.” America is full of it. Great waves of sexualized religious fervor sweep over the country. Any means may be used: the revivalist may use jazz bands and slang, do the Charleston on his platform, paint primitive pictures of hellfire and damnation, broadcast his violent sermons, shame people into conversion, and arouse a whole community to hysteria. To anyone with a discerning eye, the performance is false on the face of it. It is a lot of misplaced sexual energy gone wrong and running like a high fever. A mild case of it which came under an analyst’s observation shows the trouble clearly enough. The man in question felt that he had a message to broadcast to the people, which would bring them to a better life. The scheme, however, was actually of a cheap nature, which he admitted, on criticism, but could not give up nevertheless. It was as if he had to do it. The key-dream which showed the situation was as follows: An advertising man of his acquaintance had set out to put up the highest advertising sign in the world. This was being built on a prairie, so that it could be seen from immense distances. It was already so high that the dreamer could not see the top of it. On rope-hung scaffoldings many men were at work on the sign. At the bottom of the sign was a moat of water. Closing time came, and the men immediately leaped from their scaffoldings like frogs into the water below. His scheme is shown up as not a real attempt to help others, but as a matter of self advertising, a stunt. More than this, the energy which put up the sign, namely, the men at work on it, leaps down like frogs. Frogs, as a rule, have a sexual significance; and sometimes mean auto-erotism. In short, the energy behind his attempt to save the world is misplaced sexuality, and that sexuality of an infantile nature. His compulsion left him when he gained the proper sexual expression. However, if repression of sexuality is a bad thing, temporary abstinence is sometimes good. Not only are men and women able, at times, to go without sexuality for relatively long periods but, in certain cases, and at certain times, this has the highest value. In many savage tribes, on the night before the warriors went out to battle, the men were not allowed to have any contact with women. Doubtless this was done that their energy might remain unimpaired, and that their warlike fervor might not be softened with any of the feelings of love.