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This is still another volume turned out by the Groves. It starts out well but the authors lose heart and the result is somewhat skimpy and shy. The intention was bold. There are twelve chapters with the early ones on the Importance of Sex, Experiences that Influence Sex, Courtship, Anatomy and Physiology and Starting Marriage fairly capable. Then the authors go off into aesthetics and the clouds. Forepleasure is treated in no detail at all. The authors must have had their eyes on the law or religion in considering the problem of contraception. It is hardly informative. It will have to be a more thorough volume before one can recommend wholeheartedly. From the idealistic aspect of sexuality the book serves a purpose very well. It would be a good primer for the entirely uninitiated man or woman. Too bad it is only this and after over fifty years of Freud, Ellis, Krafft-Ebing et al. There is a brief bibliography of very proper books at the end. Rabelais, Balzac and a few others would have toned it up and given it a little humor or boot than which, as poor English goes, there is nothing better for sex.