How many men and women there are-not as many today as there were yesterday, but millions of them still-who believe that there is something wrong about the sex life! How many husbands and wives there are who have entered upon their relationship together with the secret conviction that what' they are doing is something to be ashamed of and hidden away. How many wives there are who cherish the suspicion, never to be reached by an)' argument and logic, that/heir practice of sex is an ignoble yielding to the flesh, and who have never surrendered to their husbands except with feelings of protest and humiliation! I know of nothing so disastrous to happiness in marriage as this feeling of shame which is so often attached to what possesses us with so insistent a drive upon our energies.
-JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
Minister of the
