trine of free-love, the while she secretly
indulges her sex-nature, more or less promiscuously, or else she is
forced to repress all her natural instincts, and not infrequently
these instincts are abnormally strong because of pre-natal and
inherited influences.

Both of these courses, the only two which are open to the average
woman, are disastrous to the sex, and through them to the race,
because women are the mothers of men, and any course which binds and
fetters the free spirit of woman hampers race-improvement.

Repression of the natural functions of her being results in physical
disease, and ultimately in mental weakness. Unnatural expression of
the sex-function, under the ban of compulsion, whether through the
compulsion of marriage or through the more flagrant type of commercial
prostitution, is death to the best development of the race.

Women, through the urge of economic necessity, or through the
religious ideal of wifely submission and fidelity to their "Lord and
Master" have been compelled to develop a craftiness and an artificial
"modesty" which, in most cases, passes for femininity, and deceives,
as it is intended to do, the average man.

For centuries, a woman's only profession was matrimony. Her education
for this profession consisted first of all of complete ignorance of
all that relates to the most intimate and most vital part of her
nature--the function of sex. In the occasional instances where she had
inherited a degree of mentality which could not be dwarfed, she must
at least feign ignorance; and so, while secretly aware of every
emotion of the male, and covertly playing upon his sex-nature in her
task of "catching a husband," it is small wonder that women have
developed the traits of the cat animal, and are frequently both
treacherous and cruel.

Indeed, it is only because the Female Principle is the attracting and
conserving power of the bi-une sex-love, that she has broken through
these mental fetters, and in a few rare instances has hurled defiance
at the devils of convention and tradition and claims justification of
her own sex-nature, and her right to her own person, despite the
epithet of "free-love."

Woman's partial emancipation in some instances has, no doubt, "gone to
her head," as it were, and we see many women confounding license with
liberty; mistaking passion for Love; and exchanging restraint for
debauchery.

The average woman is either almost entirely lacking in sex desire