the psychiatrist — like many ailments whose causes remain unknown to the scientist himself, at least to this day. Yet it would be a mistake to lay the responsi-bility for sexual deviance upon the unknown alone.

As for the answer to the question whether the girl afflicted with this deviance ought to be despised and scorned, it is a categorical no. For if the afflicted girl is treated in this way, she may grow yet weaker in the face of this ailment, and her weakness and

wretchedness may carry her still deeper into it. It is better, then, that she be drawn away from her ailment by companionable, friendly society, which may turn her aside from remaining the prey of her abnormal ailment. A psychological ailment must be treated with a psychological cure, at the hands of physicians who are not always physicians furnished with the diploma of a medical institute.