Comtemporary Peevishness

To our third question, even he who admits the injurious results thus attributable to
civilized sexual morality may reply that the cultural gain derived from the sexual
restraint so generally practised probably more than balances these evils, which after
all, in their more striking manifestations, affect only a minority. 1 own myself
unable to balance gain and loss precisely: nevertheless I could advance a good
many considerations as regards the loss. Returning to the theme of abstinence,
already touched on, 1 must insist that yet other injurious effects besides the
neuroses result therefrom, and that the neuroses themselves are not usually
appraised at their full significance.