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The author of this valuable essay is a specialist in clinical urology who in past books on his subject has brought to the clinical interpretation of sexual maladjustment a marked degree of understanding of the psychological factors involved. Some years ago he published a book entitled The Power to Love: a Psychic and Physiologic Study of Regeneration which in addition to an exceptional range of observation and clinical experience offered a highly useful exposition, in terms of positive and negative clinical evidences, of the nature of healthful sexual orientation as dependent on the given dominant degree of creative or regressive orientation in the whole behavior integration of the individual. Through this dynamic approach, derived both from close clinical insight and the application of psychoanalytic findings to the interpretation of the range of psychosomatic maladjustment in this field, he was able to bring to the discussion of disturbances at the genital level the larger viewpoint of the meaning of sex as an evolutional constant active at each integrative stage of growth and implicit in each level of organismic function in whole behavior states.
In the present brief essay Dr. Hirsch has applied these dynamic conceptions to an inquiry concerning the basis of attitudes toward sexual behavior in ancient Babylonian society. The result is a short sketch of some thirty pages adumbrating a theme the importance of which is deserving of more extensive treatment as well as application to other