To our third question, even he who admits the injurious results thus attributable tocivilized sexual morality may reply that the cultural gain derived the sexualrestraint so generally practised probably more than balances these evils, which afterall, in their more striking manifestations, affect only a minority. 1 own myselfunable to balance gain and loss precisely: nevertheless I could advance a goodmany considerations as regards the loss. Returning to the theme of abstinence,already touched on, 1 must insist that yet other injurious effects besides theneuroses result there, and that the neuroses themselves are not usuallyappraised at their full significance.