irst sentiment prevails generally in religious women
or those of a deeply moral or sentimental character, while the second
prevails in women of more material or less-refined nature, or in those
simply guided by their reason. In these internal struggles, the more
delicate sentiments and the stronger will of the woman result from the
fact that when she wishes she can overcome her appetites much better
than man. But, in spite of this, the power of the sexual appetite
plays an important part in the inward struggle we have just mentioned.
When this appetite is absent there is no struggle, and the widow's
conduct is dictated either by her own convenience, or by the instinct
which naturally leads a woman to yield to the amorous advances of a
man.

At the critical age, that is the time when menstruation ceases,
neither the sexual appetite nor voluptuous sensations disappear,
although desire diminishes normally as age advances. In this respect
it is curious to note that old women possess no sexual attraction for
men, while they often feel libidinous desires almost as strongly as
young women. This is a kind of natural anomaly.

As we have already stated, individual differences in the sexual
appetite are much greater in woman than in man. Some women are
extremely excitable, and from their first youth experience violent
sexual desire, causing them to masturbate or to throw themselves onto
men. Such women are usually polyandrous by nature, although the sexual
appetite in woman is normally much more monogamous than that of man.
Such excesses in woman take on a more pathological character than in
man, and go under the name of _nymphomania_. The insatiability of
these females, who may be met with in all classes of society, may
become fabulous. Night and day, with short interruptions for sleeping
and eating, they are, in extreme cases, anxious for coitus. They
become less exhausted than men, because their orgasm is not
accompanied by loss of semen.

Although in the normal state woman is naturally full of delicacy and
sentiments of modesty, nothing is easier than to make these disappear
completely by training her systematically to sexual immodesty or to
prostitution. Here we observe the effects of the routine and
suggestible character of feminine psychology, of the tendency of woman
to become the slave of habit and custom, as well as of her
perseverance when her determined will pursues a definite end.
Prostitution gives us sad proofs