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MARRIAGEthe motor and impulsive elements become pronounced,the power of control tends to be lost. In the extreme degreewe may thus have what is termed satyriasis in menand nymphomania in women.BIBLIOGRAPHYHAVELOCK ELLIS, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol.Ill, "The Sexual Impulse in Women."HAMILTON, A Research in Marriage.DICKINSON, A Thousand Marriages.STEKEL, Frigidity in Woman.ChastityWhen we speak of abstinence we have in mind a negativestate, that is to say the mere repression of a naturalimpulse. Such a repression has its motive in causes frequentlycauses of a low order outside the impulse itself,and in opposition to it. That iswhyit is liable to beharmful. It can never be in itself a virtue, thoughitmaybe the outcome of other motives which in themselves maybe associated with virtues. Asbe termed virtues or mayFlaubert wrote to George Sand, in an interesting discussionof this question in their correspondence,it is theeffort that is good, not the abstinence in itself. Chastity,however, stands on a different level.Chastity does not necessarily involve abstinence. It hassometimes been used as synonymous with absolute sexualabstinence, but it is not desirable to encourage that debaseduse of the term. It may be better defined as selfcontrolwithin the sexual sphere. That is to say that,though it may sometimes involve abstinence, it may alsoinvolve indulgence,its essence lying in the acceptance ofa deliberate and harmonized exercise of the psychic im-