outdoor life, else she stands in great danger of
losing her erotic attraction.

Surface indications of the truth of this statement are easily
discovered. The literature which before the war ran riot with athletic
heroines pictured them with wind-blown hair and flushed cheeks receiving
the offer of their male companion's heart and hand. The golf course or
the summer camp was simply a charming new setting for the development of
the eternal love theme. Even fashion has conspired to emphasize the
feminine charm of the girl who goes in for sports, as a glance at the
models of bathing costumes, silken sweaters, and graceful "sport" skirts
plainly reveals.

Just as the love which is directed in accordance with an emotional
reaction conditioned to respond to some erotic fetishism or to a parent
ideal may be productive of individual unhappiness, so it is also
entirely a matter of chance whether or not it leads to a eugenic mating.
Like romantic love, it is quite as apt to focus upon a person who does
not conform to eugenic ideals as upon one who does. The mate selected
upon the basis of these unconscious motives is very likely to bequeath a
neurotic constitution or an otherwise impaired physical organism to the
offspring of the union, since those possibilities were not taken into
consideration in making the choice.

It becomes apparent that while certain forces in the life of the
individual and in the social inheritance have united to condition the
emotional reactions of the sex life, these conditionings have not always
been for the benefit of the race. Indeed, it would almost seem that
society has been more concerned with the manner of expression of the
love life in the individual members than in its effects upon the next
generation. In its neglect or ignorance of the significance of
artificial modifications of the emotions, it has permitted certain
dysgenic influences to continue in the psychic life of generation after
generation, regarding with the utmost placidity a process of sexual
selection determined by irrational and irresponsible motives.

The most potent dysgenic influence in the present phase of the sex
problem is the conflict between the interests of the individual and the
group regulations. The traditional type of marriage and family life has
a cramping effect upon the personal ambitions which lessens its
attractiveness materially. The enterprising young business or
professional man has no desire to restrict h