This view was an ambiguous improvement on the view, universally prevalent, as Westermarck has shown, among primitive peoples, that the sexual act involves indignity to a woman or depreciation of her only in so far as she is the property of another person who is the really injured party.
This implicit contradiction has been acutely pointed out from the religious side by the Rev. H. Northcote, Christianity and Sex Problems, p. 53.
It has already been necessary to discuss this point briefly in "The Sexual Impulse in Women," vol. iii of these Studies.
"Die Abstinentia Sexualis," Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft, Nov., 1908.