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PrefaceIn this book I chronicle the life of the average man as I know him after long years of study of the subject. While you watch him as he makes his entrances and exits and plays his many roles in the consultation room of a country doctor, I hope you will recognize yourself enough to learn how to avoid some of the mistakes that generations of men before you have made. Many of my old friends may try to identify themselves with this average man, but they are not so identified in my mind. When in doubt, I called up the life I know best and tried to remember what the Peck kid did at various ages; and even at that, Peck is so blended with others who came after him that I'm not too sure of his identity.The male child is born sightless, toothless, and with sore genital organs, and all he can to do to express his displeasure is yell and kick. Seventy-five years later we find him in the same fix, sans eyes, teeth, and prostate gland, once again unhappy about his situation.Between this alpha and omega of man's existence there arexiii