180-183) states that, as a rule, sexual desire is not diminished by pregnancy, and is occasionally increased.
[14] This "inconvenience" remains to-day a stumbling-block with many excellent authorities.

"Except when there is a tendency to miscarriage," says Kossmann (Senator and Kaminer, _Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage_, vol.i, p.

257), "we must be very guarded in ordering abstinence from intercourse during pregnancy," and Ballantyne (_The Foetus_, p.

475) cautiously remarks that the question is difficult to decide.

Forel also (_Die Sexuelle Frage_, fourth edition, p.