and there are a great many of them, even though we live in a culture that suppresses and penalizos love who don't want to undertake the boredoms and responsibilities of marriage, or who know that no relationship is statio and are therefore cautious about making permanent commitments, The so people have three alternatives in our society. The y can remain celibate and a few women actually do, at a tremendous cost to themselves in physical and emotional health. They can marry for love and be burdened and bored all their lives by the household and family problems. Or they can have a series of secret temporary affairs, either heteroor homosexual, always seeking fulfillment but evading responsibility.

We all know these people. As parents they induco all kinds of emotional illnesses in the ir children; as follow workers they make trouble for others because they themselves are troubled; as members of society they remain emotional orphans. Yot almost nothing has been written about them. Dorothy Canfield Fisher did write THE HOMEMAKER in which the wife hated keeping house and the husband was mado misorable by the demands of business; everything was solved by their changing roles after the husband became paralyzed in an accident a pretty unrealistic ending. I can't think of any other books that deal with this situation, although there probably are some. The works of Simono do Beauvoir and others contain descriptions of women who roJect domesticity and mon who feel imprisoned by family ties, but their problem is usually shown in relation to the social order as a whole and not in its effect upon their private relationship.

Third comes the very large group of people who do marry, who accept the social and domestic relationships that accompany marriage in our culture, and who discover thet they are sexually unsatisfied. This is very common in real life, as we all know. It has been exploited in popular fiction, which usually blames the boredom of everyday life for the husband's or wife's dissatisfaction, although sometimes a charmer happens along and upsets everybody. STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET is fairly typical of these books; both the bo ok and the film end with the hero's going back to his wife and child, even though he really

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