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adult individual. There are, of course, persons with some constitutional peculiarity upon whom celibacy imposes no hardship; in fact, persons of this type, often the very finest kind of people, too, are predisposed, for reasons already stated, to celibate lives. But they should not be held up as examples for normal men and women to follow.

Normally constituted people, who through circumstances not of their own choosing have celibacy forced upon them, show quite distinctly the untoward effects of the celibate state.