Foreword
Every normal man (woman) in matters of sex, when examined carefully enough, is found to show some abnormal elements, and the abnormal man is merely manifesting in a disordered or extravagant shape some phase of the normal man. It is not, therefore, because a sexual act is a deviation that it becomes deserving of censure. This view once prevailed. A narrow conception of what is "natural" was held, everything else was "unnatural" and to be reviled, if not to be punished, even severely punished, for it was perhaps a crime and at the very least, a sin.
Today, the enlightened conclusion reached by medical men is that the abnormal gratification of the sexual impulse, however unusual or repugnant, calls for no condemnation or interference. This greater tolerance is not only a matter of correcting injustices inflicted on those who vary from the norm, but it adds weight to the whole social constitution and a new stability to