So far as the experiences are concerned, they can carry out their intentions, but where the gratifications are concerned they meet with abysmal, tragic failure. Sexual gratification is not an experience to be obtained through the simple performance of the sexual act. It is precisely in development of femininity that capacity for female sexual gratification lies. The woman who is to find true gratification must love and accept her own womanhood as she loves and accepts her husband's manhood. Men, challenged, frequently respond in kind.
Many women can find no solution to their dilemma and are defeated in attempts at adaptation.
These constitute the array of the sick, unhappy, neurotic, wholly or partly incapable of dealing with life. In a veritable army of women, the tensions and anxieties make their way to the surface in physical guise. So it is that society today makes it difficult for a woman to avoid the path leading to discontent and frustration and resultant hostility and destructiveness. Such destructiveness is, unfortunately, not confined in its effects to the woman alone. It reaches into all her relationships and all her functions.