But if we turn to the allied profession which is strongly on the side of sexual abstinence, we find that among theological students, as has been shown in the United States, while prostitution may be infrequent, no temptation is so frequent or so potent, and in most cases so irresistible, as that to solitary sexual indulgence.

Such is the actual attitude towards the two least ideal forms of sexual practice--as distinguished from mere theory--on the part of the two professions which most definitely pronounce in favour of continence.
It is necessary, however, as will now be clearer, to set our net more widely.

We must take into consideration every form and degree of sexual manifestation, normal and abnormal, gross and ethereal.

When we do this, even cautiously and without going far afield, sexual abstinence is found to be singularly elusive.

Rohleder, a careful and conscientious investigator, has asserted that such abstinence, in the true and complete sense, is absolutely non-existent, the genuine cases in which sexual phenomena of some kind or other fail to manifest themselves being simply cases of inborn lack of sexual sensibility.