marriage, the latter occurrence being almost always attributable to the husband. Syphilitic or gonorrhœal infection may also arise in some other way than by copulation, and to this women are more exposed than men, owing to the greater size of the genital passage in the former.” Very numerous are the disorders of the nervous system referable to the sexual functional activity of woman during this epoch of her sexual life. _Freund_, in his description of a neurasthenic symptom-complex to which he gives the name of _angst-neurosis_,[36] maintains that the cause of these attacks of anxiety[36] is very frequently to be found in a number of injurious influences in the sphere of the sexual life. In women, these anxiety-neuroses occur: _a_) As virginal anxiety, or anxiety of adolescents. _Freund_ has observed a number of unequivocal instances showing that a first encounter with the sexual problem, a rather sudden unveiling of what has hitherto been concealed, as, for instance, the sight of some sexual act, or something read or heard in conversation, may, in a girl at the time of puberty, give rise to an anxiety-neurosis, which is in a very typical manner combined with hysteria. _b_) As anxiety of the newly married. Young wives who have been without sexual feeling in their first experience of intercourse are not infrequently attacked by an anxiety-neurosis, which, however, disappears as soon as the sexual feeling becomes normal. Since, indeed, the majority of young women who lack sexual feeling in their first experience of sexual intercourse remain nevertheless quite healthy, it is evident that some other cause must coöperate in arousing the anxiety-neurosis. _c_) As anxiety in married women whose husbands suffer from _ejaculatio praecox_ or from great diminution of sexual potency, or _d_) Whose husbands practice _coitus interruptus_ or _coitus reservatus_. Cases in these two classes are closely associated, since it is easy to ascertain, from the analysis of a sufficiently large number of cases, that the really important question is, whether during coitus the wife obtains or fails to obtain sexual satisfaction. In the latter event, the condition requisite to arouse the anxiety-neurosis is supplied. _e_) As anxiety in widows and in voluntary abstinents, not infrequently in typical combination with impulsive ideas. _f_) As anxiety in the climacteric period, during the final flare-up of sexual passion.