Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

eighteen, which isSEXUAL DEVIATIONnot a conclusion we can unreservedlyaccept.As regards the treatment of defects and excesses of sexualityin the young, the question of the defects is in anycase simple. The evidence seems, as we have seen, to indicatethat it is more likely than not to be a satisfactorystate in the years before puberty, provided always that itoccurs naturally, and has not been produced artificially,or merely superficially, by unwholesome external conditions,whether physical or psychic. The anomalies by excessare so numerous and often so complex that each hasto be considered by A itself. wise physicianis here required,familiar with children and their difficulties. Informer days such physicians can scarcely be said to havehad any existence; they are very far indeed from beingnumerous today; but there isgood reason to hope that,along the lines of child-study and child-guidance that arenow being developed, the wise treatment of sexual anomaliesof childhood and youth will no longer be so rarelyfound.But for the main partit is in the home that childguidance must begin and, for most children, end. And it isthe mother though there is an important place for thefather even in the guidance of girlswho is the naturallyelect child guide. Nowadays motherhood is a serious vocation,to which not all women are called. It is a disciplinewhich makes many demands, and women may be thankfulif, in a world rapidly becoming over-filled, it is reallytrue that the Napoleons of the future will no longerclamor so loudly at the marriage bed for cannon fodder.It is few mothers, but the best, that humanity now needs.That, we may be sure, will eventually mean a revolutionin our sex life, a revolution beginning, as any such revolutionmust begin, in infancy.