There are also youths who are strongly drawn to their own sex and away from the opposite sex. Amongst them some are physically and some mentally abnormal; but there are some in whom the desire for the opposite sex is still asleep, and it needs awakening; very often in cases of the latter kind difficulties arise. People blame them for something which is not their fault; for people not knowing the truth expect them to be as responsive to the opposite sex as everybody else. And when they do not find them as they expect them to be people become impatient with them. Many courtships and marriages are destroyed by this lack of understanding. If one only knew the art of doing it one would wait and help gently and patiently, as if for the ripening of green fruit.