the
Venereal Diseases, at Mannheim, in the Year 1907_. In these
Proceedings, which were published as the seventh volume of the
_Zeitschrift zur Bekaempfung der Geschlechtskrankheiten_ (_Journal
for the Suppression of the Venereal Diseases_), the reader will
find a vast amount of material bearing upon this question.

[146] _Briefe ueber die wichtigsten Gegenstaende der Menschheit
(Letters Concerning Matters of the Utmost Importance to
Mankind)_, written by R., and published by S. I. Teil, Leipzig,
1794, p. 100 _et seq._ To all who are interested in the subject
under discussion, I strongly recommend the perusal of this book,
which seems to-day to have been entirely forgotten.

[147] For example, Max Oker-Blom: _Beim Onkel Doktor auf dem
Lande_. A book for parents, 2nd ed., Vienna and Leipzig,
1906.--An English version, _How my Uncle the Doctor Instructed me
in Matters of Sex_, has been published by the American Society of
Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, 33, West 42nd Street, New York.
[A list of a number of such books will be found in a footnote to
p. 684 of my translation of Bloch's _The Sexual Life of Our
Time_. As Oker-Blom himself says of this vital matter of sexual
enlightenment, "Better a year too early than an hour too
late."--TRANSLATOR.]

[148] _Affektivitaet, Suggestibilitaet, Paranoia_, Halle, 1906.

[149] _Anthropologisch-kulturhistorische Studien ueber die
Geschlechtsverhaeltnisse des Menschen_ (_Anthropological and
Historical Studies concerning the Sexual Life of Mankind_), 2nd
ed., Jena, 1888, p. 106.

[150] There is one bearing of the use of alcohol in relation to
irregular sexual intercourse, the importance of which Dr. Moll
appears to me largely to ignore in his discussion of the subject,
and that is the effect which even moderate doses of alcohol have
in blunting the finer sensibilities, and in disturbing the
balance of the judgment. (The author's only reference to the
subject is on page 348, where he writes, "If so much alcohol is
taken as to interfere with the natural psychical inhibitions,
sexual practices may occur that would not otherwise have
occurred.") To take the woman's point of view first, it is, I
believe, a common experience with prostitutes that, in the
earlier days at any rate, they find it difficult to ply their
trade unless under the influence of alcohol. Turning to the man's
point of view, there is quite a considerable proportion of young
men who, however strong their sexual