This book written from the clinical and consultation experience of the author, who is a feminist, falls into the class of books with a message. It is written with the aim of reconciling the trends of austere puritanism with the free indulgence in sexuality which Dr. Yarros believes has found too many advocates, both among writers on sex and among the college youth in America. She is keenly alive to the changing attitude towards sexuality in the direction of greater latitude in all classes of society, but she is convinced that monogamy and the family which evolves from it remains the soundest basis for social happiness.

Dr. Yarros finds that there is nothing immoral in trial marriages, but believes that the possibility for legal recognition of this type of union is so far distant that the efforts of those who favour greater frankness and freedom should be directed toward the establishment of rational divorce laws and legalized birth control. Promiscuity and illicit relations result in no permanent satisfaction, and therefore she advocates monogamous