The more thoughtful woman works out a private theory of her own.

But in very many cases this mischievous opposition exerts a subtly perverting influence on the whole outlook towards Nature and life.

In a few cases, also, in women of sensitive temperament, it even undermines and ruins the psychic personality.
Thus Boris Sidis has recorded a case illustrating the disastrous results of inculcating on a morbidly sensitive girl the doctrine of the impurity of women.

She was educated in a convent.

"While there she was impressed with the belief that woman is a vessel of vice and impurity.