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No. 2 (b) 2

Whenever he stops work he at once becomes
as passionate as before.

About 1909 (see Menstrual blank) my menses
began to decline and in the course of a year
ceased altogether, without any nervous disturbance
whatever. During this time I was doing heavy
intellectual labor - published a statistical and
sociological book in 1906, another in 1908
and another in 1912; gained some weight
(from average of 110 to 120) and did my own
housework beside lecturing frequently in public.
My health has steadily improved during the
last seven years and I am (at 53) much
stronger and capable of doing both more physical
and mental work every day than any woman
of my acquaintance and more than most women
of forty. I can walk 15 miles without feeling
it and lift my own weight.

Although my passionate feeling has declined
somewhat and the orgasm does not always occur,
intercourse is still agreeable to me.

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