The critical age of woman / by Walter M. Gallichan.

  • Walter M. Gallichan
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[1920]
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Credit: The critical age of woman / by Walter M. Gallichan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aged men are apt to fall in love with young girls. The tendency to jealousy, so often noticed at the change of life, receives strong impetus from the wife’s secret musing upon this difficult situation. She is suspicious about her husband’s letters; she suspects a possible rival in her friends, and she is prone to imagine all kinds of trouble when the husband is absent from home. Sometimes the husband shows cool¬ ness, indifference, or neglect. He may have found married life and the conjugal act disappointing, through a mistake in selection, or through his imperfect know¬ ledge of the emotional and physical needs of women. In these cases the husband may be unfaithful for the first time. He may form a clandestine connection, or resort to women of the courtesan class. Many men of sixty, and many years older, are still sexually potent, and indeed at the age of sixty there is often an exacerbation of sex desire (hyper¬ esthesia) . More poignant still is the position of the woman who actually discovers her amorousness for the first time at the approach of, or during, the menopause. Such instances are not very uncommon. The age of the first appearance of amative X
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