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It is becoming recognized that the majority of failures in marriage are not so much the result of incompatibility of temperament as incompatibility of sexual temperament; if full sexual satisfaction is obtained by both the woman and the man other incompatibilities become unimportant. That is, we know, exacting a good deal, but according to the statistics quoted by the author the majority of marriages in the United States turn out satisfactorily. He reproduces the results of A Thousand Marriages, by Dr. R. L. Dickinson and L. Bean, reviewed in this JOURNAL (Vol. XIII, p. 381) as well as a questionnaire by Dr. G. V. Hamilton and Dr. Kathleen B. Davis.
In the chapter on sex factors in maladjustments the author deals