CHAPTER IX.

THE BRIDE.

Importance of knowledge contained in preceding volume.--Woman possessed of less sexual inclinations than man.--Threefold classification.--Those largely devoid of sexual feeling.--This condition accounted for.--The large class to whom the pleasure is normal.--The third class consists of those in whom sexuality is a ruling passion.--Misfortune of such a condition in a wife.--Among animals the female determines the time of mating.--No rapes among animals.--The subjugation of the wife.--Her right over her own body.--The changes which come to the reproductive natures of men and women at middle life.--Noticeable effect of the new relation upon young married people.--The cause and cure of excessive sensual tendencies, 123