"we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame."

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Source : Agnes Maude Royden (1924). “Sex and Common-sense”, p.3, Reprofis LLC

Maude Royden

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