Sexual repression

The arbitrary and pernicious dictum of total continence probably also explains the mental inequality of the sexes.

Thus Freud believes that the intellectual inferiority of so many women is due to the inhibition of thought imposed upon them for the purpose of sexual repression.

Having thus suppressed the natural sex desires of the unmarried woman, Puritanism, on the other hand, blesses her married sister for incontinent fruitfulness in wedlock.

Indeed, not merely blesses her, but forces the woman, oversexed by previous repression, to bear children, irrespective of weakened physical condition or economic inability to rear a large family.

The arbitrary and pernicious dictum of total continence probably also explains the mental inequality of the sexes.

Thus Freud believes that the intellectual inferiority of so many women is due to the inhibition of thought imposed upon them for the purpose of sexual repression.

Having thus suppressed the natural sex desires of the unmarried woman, Puritanism, on the other hand, blesses her married sister for incontinent fruitfulness in wedlock.

Indeed, not merely blesses her, but forces the woman, oversexed by previous repression, to bear children irrespective of weakened physical condition or economic inability to rear a large family.