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

tragedy of ignorance in sex and sexual relations is that it affects not only the ignorant but all those in their environ¬ ment. Like the neurosis, ignorance is a contagious disease, nowhere so fatal in its consequence a§ in the realm of sex. The Curse of Sexual Competition The second great cause for sexual maladjustment is competition between the sexes for prestige and power. This competition exists in a very marked form to-day, and is in part the outgrowth of the movement for the emancipa¬ tion of women from the tyranny of a dominant male sex. Whatever value may be ascribed to competition as a life-giving force in the business conduct of an individualistic society, competition is the death of love, and the hidden reef on which many a marriage has foundered. We have good reason to believe that this competition is a matter of considerable historical antiquity, and is coeval with the rise of private property and the coincident rise of a patriarchal society based on the dominance of the male sex. We are still living in an age in which the male sex rules and makes rules for the conduct of the female sex. Until most recent times certain professions and vocations were open only to males, and, even to-day, important positions in the government and in private business enterprises are openly or tacitly denied to women, and far greater obstacles are placed in the way of women’s efforts than are placed in the way of men who desire the same goals. It is characteristic of any society in which one sex is dominant and the other subordinate, that all the useful virtues are arrogated to the dominant sex, and the vices usually ascribed to the subordinate sex. Thus, virility, courage, intelligence, responsibility, resourcefulness, honesty, are the virtues which men consider more or less their prerogatives in our society, whereas women have to content themselves with the petty virtues of chastity,