How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

their sexual prestige so battered in body and distorted in mind that they form a public health problem. Anyone who has seen a homosexual haunt in which hundreds of men, some dressed as women, dance with one another ; anyone who has observed those parodies of “ queer women ” whose Lesbian tendencies compel them to disfigure their bodies and cramp their minds, will understand something of the damage wrought by false competition in sex. If you know any of the host of dried- up women whose fear of sexual competition has led them to seek “ sublimation ”, so-called, in painting lamp shades, running tea rooms, or becoming Christian Scientists, nuns, or prostitutes, you will agree with us that the products of this competition form an unsavoury excrescence upon our society. Any husband who has been nagged, any lover whose beloved ruins his life by the poison of her possessive jealousy, any man whose life has been blighted because a wife, mother, or sister could not feel herself secure unless she had the last word, any man who has been libelled and maligned by a woman whose sexual frustration could be expressed in no other form of revenge, will understand very well why we find sexual competition one of the commonest causes of human unhappiness. No woman who has been beaten by a husband who could find no other means of assuring himself of his masculine dominance; no woman who has been denied a job for which she was perfectly qualified with the words “ No women wanted ; no woman who has been paid less than her male neighbour at a factory bench simply because that neighbour was a man ; no woman who has had to bear children because a dominant husband would not spoil his sexual pleasure by thinking of contra¬ ception, or refused to allow her to care for herself ; no woman who has had to drudge at menial household tasks because her husband’s vanity would not permit her competition in the business world ; no woman who has been denied access to a coveted professional appoint¬ ment simply because no women were allowed, will fail