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Under the auspices of a cooperating committee of women prominent in sociology and education, the Bureau of Social Hygiene has produced that study of the sex experience of normal women which is the next step so long waited for in this field of research.
The foundation of this structure is Freud and the forerunners are those long accounts of sexual suffering and neurasthenia produced by the psychoanalysts, each one a vertical shaft, in stark isolation. Here, in the analysis of 2,200 cases, masses are smoothed and modelled into forms conventional to the eye. The predecessors were wild with vitality. This study is objective and restrained, coming severely within the rules. Yet the interrelationship is apparent, the general effect is the same and the qualitative difference has its roots in method.
It may be regarded as established that this corroborative evidence