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MARRIAGEerted a stimulating effect, and retarded fatigue. We maycertainly believe that the semen may be absorbed naturallyin coitus, even apart from the evidence alleged byVan de Velde that the breath after recent coitus maysometimes exhale an odor of semen. (Ican recall as a boyreading of a German monk who was able to detect byodor a woman who had been unchaste.)Error has crept in by assuming too easily that, ifsuchabsorption is possible, we must necessarily attribute to itthe beneficial results of coitus. It has been fortified by theundoubted fact that in contraceptive intercourse the beneficialresults have not always followed. It would seem,however, that the main question here is whether the actwas felt to be gratifying and satisfactory. There cannot bethe slightest doubt that, even with absence of contactwith the semen, coitus can be completely pleasurable andentirely beneficial in its results. There may be furtherbenefits proceeding from the semen itself, but there areother ways of securing them and not all contraceptivemeasures involve absence of contact with the semen. It isone of the numerous advantages of sterilization as a contraceptivemeasure that it allows complete freedom for theeffusion of semen. Even at the worst, as Killick Millardhas observed, many an over-burdened wife and motherwill gladly forgo these additional benefits for herself solong as she is able to escape from the evils of excessivematernity and at the same time be able to satisfy herhusband.BIBLIOGRAPHYG. V. HAMILTON, A Research in Marriage.R. L. DICKINSON, A Thousand Marriages.MARGARET SANGER, The New Motherhood.MICHAEL FIELDING, Parenthood: Design or Accident? AManual of Birth Control.