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CHAPTER VI

SEX HYGIENE IN MARRIAGE

The Conjugal Relations—Expressing Love Deepens the Love Feeling—Love Cannot Be Separated From Sexuality—Courtship and Married Lovers—Wooing as an Essential Preparation—The Consummation of Love—Woman Must be Wooed Before Every Act of Coitus—Characteristics of Feminine Nature—Woman's Role in the Sex Relations—The Sex Act Means More to the Female—Woman's Subconscious Maternal Solicitude—Benefits of Sexual Expression—Key to Happiness in Marriage—Greater Longevity of Married Women—The Sexual Initiation of the Bride—Coitus the Fulfilment of a Natural Law—One of the Most Beautiful and Sacred Phenomena of Life—Gives Marriage Its Wonderful Potentialities—Overcoming Sexual Coldness—Keeping Romance in Marriage—Jealousy the Destroyer—Frequency of Sex Relations—Intercourse During Menstruation—Intercourse During Pregnancy.

The Conjugal Relations. While it is true that, in general, there is vast confusion about the nature and functions of sex in every department of life, nowhere does this confusion tend to reach a more serious climax than in the intimate relations of marriage.

The problem of the sexual relations in marriage is one of many-sided importance because it affects immediately not only the lives and well-being of the two principals, but usually overlaps into and affects the destinies of others.

Probably the major troubles that result from the conventional, false doctrines concerning sex, so widely prevalent, are due to the irreconcilable ideas of what constitutes the sex-life of the man and of the woman.

Woman was taught to believe, according to traditional formula, that sex is a "nasty" subject—it even used to be

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