Love Without Fear [antikvár]

Introduction Ye shall some day love beyond yourselves, So first learn loving! nietzsche Not one husband in twelve adequately knows the technique of love to enable him to impart and receive half the pleasure which should be derived from sexual union. Not one in a hundred has learned, by study, practice, or experience, how to gain the maximum of pleasure. The majority of wives never know the supreme joy which the sex act can yield to the ideally mated. ^ At least eighty in every hundred marriages must be written down as failures in the true sense, even though they may appear otherwise on the surface. Economic considerations, mutual feelings of loyalty, and regard to appearance frequently hold together the most dismal unions and hide their real failures. These are extreme statements. But they are amply supported by the available evidence. If they err at all they are understatements rather than exaggerations. And while all those whose work brings them into close relationship with the sex lives of modern men and women realise the sad—and, to the uninitiated, staggering—truth, the fact remains that nothing like an adequate effort is being made to remedy the situation. It is often said that this is an age of frankness, in which 11