In Austria, according to Freud, it is not uncommon, exclusively among girls.
[35] Yet, according to English law, rape is a crime which it is impossible for a husband to commit on his wife (see, e.g., Nevill Geary, _The Law of Marriage_, Ch.

XV, Sect.

V).

The performance of the marriage ceremony, however, even if it necessarily involved a clear explanation of marital privileges, cannot be regarded as adequate justification for an act of sexual intercourse performed with violence or without the wife's consent.
[36] Hirschfeld, _Jahrbuch fuer Sexuelle Zwischenstufen_, 1903, p.88.

It may be added that a horror of coitus is not necessarily due to bad education, and may also occur in hereditarily degenerate women, whose ancestors have shown similar or allied mental peculiarities.