AK This is often the case even among the noblest of men; among women, even among the worst, as the demi-mondaines, the heart has to be also somewhat engaged.

AL In a lesser degree, the same may be said of the man, only the care for procuring food distracts his attention from the ultimate aim of life.

AM It is really amusing to notice how the radical writers put up a target and fire at it to their heart’s content. They take the church or state marriage and direct their poisoned arrows against it. As if the biologist, when speaking of animal and human marriage, could ever mean the conventional marriage. Neither does he understand by monogamy the condition generally known by this term. The biological monogamic marriage of a certain couple is their exclusive cohabitation for a certain length of time. If during this time they refrain from cohabitating with others they are for the time being living biologically in monogamic marriage. The cock in the barn-yard is polygamous, the steer in the herd is promiscuous, but the cow is monogamous. Once she has been impregnated she will not admit any other male until the end of the period of gestation and lactation, and the new period of rut has set in. From the beginning of one impregnation to the beginning of the other, almost a year, she is monogamic. This is the case with almost all females among the higher animals, and woman does not make any exception to this rule. Even the girl who professes free love, except she be a nymphomaniac, would not continue to live with her lover, if she found that while living with her he had had love affairs with others. She would divorce him forthwith, and sometimes such a divorce would be accompanied by quite a little scandal. Most of the erotic murders committed by men upon women and most of the cases of women throwing acid into the faces of men, we so often read in the Parisian papers, are perpetrated by those whose marriage relations have never been sanctioned by church or state. This fact reveals another error of the radicals who picture the peaceful parting of their free-loving couples in such glowing colors. They simply leave each other when they do not love any longer. But in practice love does not depart from both parties simultaneously, and the party which is still attached to the other will resent the desertion no less than if they would have been legally married. The reason is that normal men and women, except in early youth, perhaps, are never varietists. The varietist who lacks the instinct of exclusiveness is a psychopathic sensualist. No alienist could have given a better description of the symptoms of the psychopathic sensualist than that found in E. C. Walker’s (The moloch of the monogamic ideal) picture of the sufferings of the varietist, not of the suffering of total abstinence—in this case there may be some physiological basis—but of the suffering for lack of variety. And those pathological specimens are presented to us as normal men and women.

AN The pride of the female, says Otto Weininger (Sex and Character, p. 201), is something quite peculiar to herself, something foreign even to the most handsome man, an obsession of her own body, a pleasure which displays itself even in the least handsome girl, by admiring herself in the mirror, by stroking herself and playing with her own hair, but which comes to its full measure only in the effect that her body has on man.

AO Grudge, ill will, fear, hatred, or envy are often miscalled jealousy, but are emotions entirely different from the emotion of sexual jealousy.

Jealousy is especially confused with the emotion of envy. Professional jealousy, artistic jealousy, etc., for instance, are nothing but envy. Jealousy has a real or pretended claim, envy has none. Envy needs only two persons, jealousy three.

When a man, for instance, loves a woman in silence, without her knowledge or encouragement, i. e., without even a pretended claim upon her, and another man enters upon the stage, the emotion of the first man is not that of jealousy but of fear, lest the second man may succeed where he has not yet. When a man has a successful love affair, and another man appears as a disturber, the emotion of the second is that of envy. If the woman transfers her affections on the disturber, the emotion of the lover is that of jealousy, because he had a claim upon her.

AP This accounts for the observation not seldom made in the cases of widows that the children of the second husband bear a certain resemblance with the first dead one.

AQ The experiments of Waldstein and Elder show that every congressio, ending in the male ejaculation within the vagina, causes a certain saturation of the female blood with a substance, owing its origin within the male body, and exercises a certain change in the female blood. These authors have shown by experiments on rabbits (Archiv für Kriminalanthropologie und Kriminalistik, Vol. 56, p. 364) that the male sperma within the female organism represents a foreign body in the sense of Abderhalden. When the sperma has entered the blood of the female organism it produces there a specific ferment. The blood of a rabbit, twenty-four hours after copulation, possesses the quality of dialyzation upon testicular tissue. This reaction is positive after every copulation, no matter whether fertilization has taken place or not. Thus a part of the male circulates within the blood of the female, even after copulation without fertilization.

AR Even very small children with scanty knowledge of right or wrong, and without any rebuke or reprimand by parents or guardians, seem to have a conscious idea that masturbation is reprehensible and try to hide their activities.

AS One of the author’s patients, Mr. X., in his struggle against the habit, while a student in college, vowed never to fall back into the habit. As a reminder of this vow, he wrote upon a piece of cardboard the celebrated words of Darius, “μέμνησο τοῦ ὅρκου,” and hung it up over the desk. One day a college-friend, Mr. Y., came to see him and noticed the Greek sentence. Mr. Y. asked his host what kind of a vow he has taken. When he received no satisfactory answer Mr. Y. said: “I know the nature of your vow. It was that you will never masturbate again. But you did it in spite of your solemn oath.” This correct guess shows that Mr. Y. had the same struggle on his hands as his friend Mr. X.

AT The word onanism in this treatise is always used in the true Biblical sense, i. e., it always designates the practice of coitus interruptus; for this is what Onan did (Genesis xxxviii, 9). All other kinds of self-abuse, especially the practice where the hands are used, are called masturbation or manusturpation, but never onanism.

AU Timidity may cause actual shrinkage of the penis to half the size of its ordinary flaccid condition.

AV In small doses alcohol is stimulating to the desires and is creating power, but chronic alcoholism causes loss of desire and power. Acute alcoholic intoxication also often paralyses the nerves of erection.

AW Without this instinct, tumescence is impossible, and tumescence must be obtained in men for erection and in women for orgasm, before detumescence is possible. Hence coition must be in some slight degree desired by the man, or it cannot take place at all. The potency of man’s voluptas is, therefore, a condition sine qua non for copulation. Not so in woman, she may submit without desire or excitement and allow the man to enjoy complete satisfaction. But a man’s pleasurable excitement is the necessary condition of woman’s sexual gratification. The male potencies of voluptas and of erection are the conditions of copulation even for the woman, but the reverse is not the case.

AX The Romans distinguished four different kinds of castrates and designated them by four different names. (1) Castrati, in whom testicles and penis have been removed, (2) Spadones, in whom the testicles only have been removed, (3) Thlibiae, in whom the testicles were only crushed but not removed, (4) Thlasiae, in whom the spermatic cord was simply cut.

AY These signs may easily be suppressed by the strong-willed wife, who wishes to make her husband believe that her sexual activity is a continual sacrifice to his sensual desires and that she herself has no feeling whatsoever during the act. By this trick she tries to rule him and generally succeeds, especially when the husband is somewhat sensual by nature. This stratagem is also responsible for men’s general belief in women’s frigidity. In their youth men associate with venal women who are naturally anaesthetic in their activities for hire. Later on they are tricked by their wives. Even great writers are deceived in this respect by their fair partners.

AZ The word frigidity is used by the best writers in an ambiguous sense. Both, impotence of voluptas and impotence of libido, are designated by frigidity, especially by the lay-writers. By right only the woman suffering from impotence of voluptas is really cold and frigid. She is the one who does not care for the other sex at all. The patient suffering from impotence of libido is not at all cold or frigid toward the other sex. On the contrary, she is very passionate, but she has no use for coition because it does not bring her satisfaction. She is only anaesthetic for a certain kind of stimuli, i. e., coition.

BA Vide Talmey, N. Y. Med. Jour., May 24, 1913.

BB It is nowadays the fashion of sex-determinism to attribute every human emotion or its anomalies to sex. Thus not only cruelty connected with sexual activity is termed sadism, but every kind of cruelty is imputed to sadistic emotions. When the Spanish nations in Europe or America love to see bull-fights and thus enjoy cruelty, inflicted upon animals, these sex-determinists at once attribute this love of cruelty to the sadistic nature of the Latin and his descendants. This averment has as much right to make claim upon our credulity as the assertion that when an infant falls back satisfied after nursing at its mother’s breast, this satisfaction is of libidinous sexual nature. These singular saints see sex everywhere, nothing but sex. No wonder that such claims are repudiated by the logical mind. It is such exaggerations which tend to bring the best teachings and theories into discredit.

BC This Platonic explanation of homosexuality, attributing the anomaly to the influence of a deity, is not quite modern, but it served its purpose at that time. All the modern theories do not do any more. For instance, the theory that men afflicted with an inverted sexual instinct have a female brain and male sexual glands, “anima muliebris in corpore virili inclusa,” is, as far as a theory goes, a good enough working theory, but as far as a real explanation of the causes of the homosexual anomaly is concerned, it does not contribute one iota (nor does any other theory the author is acquainted with) to the etiology of the abnormal emotion.

The reason is plain. We can never hope to find the cause of the abnormal emotion before we have first gained absolute knowledge of the nature of normal sex-attraction. Why does the Chilodon need conjugation at definite periods? Why does it not go on dividing and multiplying indefinitely without conjugation? The answer “protoplasmatic” hunger or “erotic chemotropismus” (erotic chemotropismus is not always the cause of sex-attraction; this clearly shows the infatuation, sometimes met with, of a normal woman with a girl masquerading as a boy, where no spermatozoa enter into the play; on the other hand, normally no chemotropismus seems to exist between the ova and spermatozoa of sister and brother who have been brought up together, while brother and sister do sometimes fall in love with each other if they are ignorant of their relationship) only begs the question. Whence comes this protoplasmatic hunger, whence this erotic chemotropismus? Do these beautiful high-sounding phrases say more than, e. g., a physician’s diagnosis “colonic stasis,” when the patient complains of constipation. Telling a homosexual man that he has a female brain is telling him what he already knows.

The real etiology of homosexuality must remain unknown, until we know the etiology of sex-attraction, and the knowledge of the “whence” and “why” of sex-attraction is homoiousious, not to say homoousious with the knowledge of the Supreme Cause. Sex-attraction or love is an energizing power, akin to the other great forces of nature or destiny, working to develop the soul of man, and it is futile to pick out one attribute of the divine creative power and speculate over it without the knowledge of the nature of the divinity itself. It is the same mistake Job of old has made.

In this oldest Hebrew drama, the spectators or audience, at the two scenes in Heaven, know that all the calamities, miseries and sufferings of Job were inflicted upon the great sufferer, who represents mankind, to try the constancy of his piety. According to human justice Job is innocent. This is Job’s claim. His friends try to convince him that he is not innocent, that even by the principles of human justice his sufferings are not unmerited. But they are silenced by Job’s arguments. Even the youthful Busite (Cap. xxxii.), emphasizing God’s greatness, who must have discovered some hidden sin in Job, although he is not answered by the latter, fails to convince us, for we know about the stipulations between Jehova and Satan.

Then Jehova himself answers from the whirlwind. He does not really answer, he rather asks some pertinent questions. “Have you been present when the foundations of the Earth were laid, when the Stars were born?” If not, how can he, the insignificant pigmy, dare question divine justice. Since you, Job, have no idea of the nature of the divinity (or God, the author fears to mention the word God lest he may offend the delicate susceptibilities of his atheistic friends who fly into a rage when seeing this word as a bull when seeing a red cloth), how can you know the causes or reasons for his attributes? Divine justice is an attribute of the divinity, and if the nature of the divinity is veiled in mystery, divine justice must of necessity remain unknown to mortal creatures, just as human justice is beyond the conception of the amoeba or of the lion. Divine justice can not be compared at all with human justice, just as the sense of justice of the amoeba or of the lion differs from that of man.

Now, the same questions may still be asked to-day. We must still recognize the incapacity of the human intellect to penetrate the divine plan of the universe. With all our scientific attainments we still are in ignorance about the sources of light. The length of its waves, its celerity is known to science, but where does the Sun come from? When was he born? Who gave birth to him? Science has traced the synthetic nature of the plant, the analytic nature of the animal, but tell us, Job, whence gets the seed the faculty to begin its synthetic work as soon as it is placed in favorable soil?

Here we are silenced like Job of yore and refuse to answer. And we are right. The “whence” and the “why” of things do not lie in the realm of science. Science investigates the “how” and leaves the investigation of the “whence” and the “why” to metaphysics or rather to religion. Even the latter has not yet succeeded to give humanity the irrefutable answer. From the Hindu trinity of Brahm’s Trimurti to the Hebrew unity of Jehovah back to the Christian Logos of John, they all tried to answer the question of the “whence” of things, and they must have failed. Otherwise humanity of all climes and of all ages would have had only one religion instead of being divided into innumerable creeds.

As far as the “how” is concerned, such an explanation as “anima muliebris in corpore virili inclusa” is quite a good enough working theory. Inversion would thus be a degenerative phenomenon, the invert representing the sport or the variation.

BD Some of our hyperaesthetic sexologists, who see sex everywhere, try to construe the friendship between David and Jonathan as homosexual love. They find their inspiration in David’s lament over Jonathan: “Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.” (II Samuel i, 26.) Whoever can see in this poetical expression homosexuality has very little sense for poetry and a good deal for sex. The Vulgata translates the verse: “Decore nimis et amabilis super amorem mulierum,” and then adds: “Sicut mater unicum amat filium suum ita ego te diligebam.” This word “diligebam” surely does not sound like homosexuality. Nor does the word ἀγαπή used by the Septuaginta, denote sex.

BE This infatuation of a normal woman with a woman, disguised as a man, shows that sexual attraction is not always based upon erotic chemotropismus between the ova and the spermatozoa.

BF The cases were first published by the author in the New York Medical Journal, Feb. 21, 1914.

BG The wail and cry of the patient that the common herd does not understand him are well known. It is the old feminine protest that men do not understand women. It is the familiar catch-phrase which a flattering yellow journalism and mediocre literature are continually dishing out to their women readers. Men will never understand women, is preached in and out of season, insinuating a certain depth in and mystery about her psyche. Most certainly, the man does not understand woman’s psyche. He does not understand his own, neither does she understand her own. The experiments in psychological laboratories are dealing only with the relations between the sensations and perceptions, not with the “whence,” “how” and the “why” of the mechanism of the mind. The mechanism by which a material fluid, cell, or electron turns into a thought, whether in the male or the female brain, is yet unknown, neither is there any prospect that it ever will be. Still the workings of the human mind are subject to observation, and we know by experience that woman’s psyche changes with the change of her dress. The mind of a man born in poverty and brought up in humble surroundings will always remain humble, even when he becomes a millionaire. He adapts himself with great difficulty to changed conditions. Woman’s adaptation to new surroundings is phenomenal. Dress her as a queen and she is a queen, clad in rags, she acts the beggar. Normal men do not understand the nature of such a mind that can be so influenced by outward appearance. Neither does man understand the wonderful instinct of the hymenopter. Yet the insect seems to be less proud of its mystery than our patient of his or the female of the species of hers.

For this very reason the male transvestites who are possessed with a female spirit or a female soul are more interesting than the female transvestite, possessed of a male soul. In normal men dressing is never a matter of great concern, neither is it with the transvestite endowed with a male mind. But the normal woman attributes a vast importance to feminine dress, and the male transvestite with the female soul excels her in dress-valuation.

BH This is the psychological explanation for woman’s love of histrionic spectacles. Almost two-thirds of all theatregoers are certainly women. Still so much demi-nude femininity is presented on the stage, presumably to amuse men and so few semi-nude men for the amusement of women. Why do so many women run to the theatres to see the nudity of their own sex? Men do not care for the sight of nude men? The reason is that feminine nudity is presented on the stage not for the amusement of the few men, but mostly for the amusement of the great throng of women.

The female body has a sexually stimulating effect upon woman (Colin Scott, Am. Jour. of Psych., Feb. 1895). The pride of the female, says Weininger (Sex and Character, p. 201), is something quite peculiar to herself, something foreign even to the most handsome man, an obsession of her own body, a pleasure which displays itself even in the least handsome girl, by admiring herself in the mirror, by stroking herself and by playing with her own hair, but which comes to its full measure only in the effect that her body has on man. Woman desires to feel that she is admired physically. The normal woman regards her body as made for the stimulation of the man’s sensations. This complex emotion forms the initial stage of her own pleasure. The female body has hence a greater exciting effect upon women than the male body has upon men. Female nudity produces a greater impression upon her than the male body ever does. Statues of female forms are more liable than those of male forms to have a stimulating effect upon woman.

The same emotions are evoked in woman at the sight of female clothes. Woman takes it for granted that her clothes, just as her body, have an erotic effect upon the male. Hence female clothes awaken in women a complex emotion akin to the sight of the female body. Woman becomes sexually excited by her own clothes. For this reason clothes are to woman of the greatest importance. The desire for beautiful clothes is an irradiation of the sex instinct. The purpose of dress is the attraction through covering. For the parts covered are rendered more conspicuous.

BI “And if a man lie with a beast he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast.” (Levit. xx, 15-16.)

BJ Medical students who ought to know the sequels of venereal diseases are not chaster than other young men of the same age.

BK Such pamphlets as “What a young boy ought to know” or “What a young girl ought to know” show a touching naïveté. Young boys and girls, if of the age to understand such pamphlets, do not need to know anything, for the simple reason that they know everything, and in a more prurient way than their elders. It is the height of absurdity to give lectures on sex problems before classes in high schools or colleges, where a large percentage of the boys have already passed through all the stages of gonorrhoeal infection and a good many of the girls are addicted to the practice of autoeroticism. After such habits have been acquired, lectures will be of no avail. Nor are books, fit to be given into the hands of boys or girls, of any value. By the time a child is able to understand such books it knows more of sex than the book can teach.

BL It is questionable if physicians always appreciate the dangers of venereal diseases and of sexual irregularities. It may sound queer, but the author has met with many physicians who think no more of gonorrhoea than of a cold in the head, and who consider a chancre a huge joke. Such physicians—and their number is legion—have never acquired any proper knowledge of sex.

BM It is only the covering that gives to any part of the human anatomy a certain element of the obscene. The female arms are certainly more beautiful than the female legs. Still the bare feminine arms, because they are constantly seen everywhere, are seldom noticed by any healthy male; but let a woman bare her legs in public and she will shock the entire community by the strange, unusual sight.

BN The following lessons for boys and girls at the period of puberty should be given only if preceded by preventive measures during infancy and early childhood and by lessons in propagation of plants and of animals. If the children have never been instructed before, and there is the least suspicion that they have already tasted from the tree of knowledge, either in the form of masturbation or in that of illicit venery, such lessons are not only of no value, but they may even do more harm than good. The descriptions of the sequelae of masturbation and of venereal diseases may make the young people desperate and not seldom cause suicide or wanton recklessness.

BO In the girl a certain kind of nocturnal ejaculation also takes place, manifested by an abundant discharge from the Bartholinian glands and the expulsion of Kristeller’s slimy plug from the cervix. These phenomena during sleep are usually of a vague kind in young girls and are seldom impressed upon their consciousness. The real pollution that awakens the sleeper and leaves its traces in the individual’s memory occurs usually only in boys, and in the female sex only, after a perfect orgasm has been experienced in the state of wakening.

BP Vide B. S. Talmey; Contribution to the study of the Aetiology of Varicocele; New York Medical Journal, July 14, 1894.

BQ To be sure this will mean preaching the morality of fear, and it may be objected that “burglary is wrong, irrespective whether the burglar does or does not get caught.” But the teaching of pure ethics is best left to the minister, who is the natural teacher of morality. The latter, with all the authority of religion, cannot prevent sex irregularities. Rev. J. M. Wilson (Journ. of Education, 1881) says: “Emotional religious appeals are far from rooting out sensuality and sometimes even stimulate licentiousness.” This is a confession of the ministry that, as far as chastity is concerned, pure ethics seem to have been a complete failure. Hence, the pedagogue and physician will have to give other, more appealing reasons for the avoidance of a promiscuous life. Besides this, the morality of fear is a pretty good working morality. The Bible (Exodus xx, 5 and 12, and xxii, 23, the observance of a command carries its reward and the transgression of a prohibition its punishment) often preaches the morality of fear, and upon the Biblical morality all the western civilizations are founded. Morality is the arrest of the instincts by the intellect, and the intellect always asks for the ethical “why.” The instincts are the voices of the past generations, reverberating like distant echoes in the cells of the nervous system. To overcome this powerful inheritance, the intellect needs a sound, valid reason, and the best reason will be, if we can show the violator of the usages of society that he is not only injuring himself but that he does harm to others. An immoral act must harm somebody. A man alone in the world can not be immoral. If humanity suddenly perished, leaving only one man on earth, there would be no morality left for him. There is no moral precept which is not a social precept, no other duty except toward one’s neighbor. If human sanitation and the universal intelligent use of venereal prophylaxis could banish venereal diseases from this planet, there would be no medical sex-problem, although there might still remain some sex-problems for the sociologists to solve.

But venereal diseases are still here among us. If prostitution could be expelled from our earth, the generations following such a happy catastrophe would be free of venereal diseases. But as humanity seems to be now constituted, we shall have to wait a long time for the spontaneous disappearance of this plague. Even in the ideal state of society, dreamt of by our economic determinists, prostitution will still be in existence, as long as we continue to breed mental defects. Only a very small percentage of prostitution is due to economic conditions. In the great majority of cases it is absence of every moral principle and will-power which determine the girls to embrace this unhappy profession. Dr. Pauline Tarnowsky (Etudes anthropométriques sur les voleuses et prostituées) found that professional prostitutes are imperfect beings, affected by arrest of development, generally due to morbid heredity, and present mental and physical signs of degeneracy in accord with their imperfect evolution. They accept their abject trade agreeably and do not want to change it. Laziness and absence of moral sense are the principal traits characteristic of the prostitute. Dr. Olga Bridgman (Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., August 16, 1913) found among a hundred and four sexually immoral girls, examined at admission at the State training school for girls at Geneva, one hundred and one or ninety-seven per cent. feeble-minded and only three normal. Dr. Edith E. Spaulding, Physician, Massachusetts Reformatory for Women, Sherborn, Mass. (The Amer. Social Hygiene Assoc. Bulletin, May, 1914), has completed a study of the mental and physical factors in the cases of 244 girls leading a life of prostitution. Of these over ninety-nine per cent. had one of the venereal diseases, fifty per cent. had both syphilis and gonorrhoea. Of the total number 60 per cent. showed syphilis and 89 per cent. gonorrhoea. The mental and environmental factors disclosed by this investigation are no less valuable and interesting. In only 15 per cent. did environmental conditions alone seem to have determined the entrance into a life of prostitution, the remaining eighty-five per cent. showed some underlying mental or physical defect.

All these investigations tend to show that defective mentality is responsible for the presence of prostitution. Prostitution, therefore, will always be with us, as long as we allow mental defectives to propagate. With the presence of prostitution, the venereal scourge will rage among us, unless we can convince men to stay away from contamination.

BR This course will mean a much larger task than merely lobbying a bill through the legislature for the eradication of prostitution, the common remedy of the reformer. It will come only by the slowest and most difficult of processes and by that hardest of all work in the world, i. e., thinking.

The off-hand reformers are too impatient with the slow and toilsome process of competent and judicious sex-education. For them a law, forbidding the marriage of the diseased, suffices to eradicate hereditary syphilis and ophthalmia neonatorum. As a rule, their laws often intensify the very ills they seek to cure. To the average reformer life is presented in a stark and rigid outline. He has no perception of proportions, no knowledge of values. Even when he acquiesce in the slow, patient, laborious study of sex, he is blandly unconscious of distinctions. He at once exaggerates matters. He can not see that the truth about sex may be imparted to the child by parents, family physician or teacher, but that it cannot be acquired by the child from the platform, stage, novel or the ubiquitous magazine.

BS Lewis (D. Amer. Jour. Derm., 1906) has known girls of thirteen and fourteen years of age quæ conceptaverunt without realizing their condition. The author examined once a gravid girl of seventeen years who had no idea what pregnancy means and where hers resulted from.

BT Woodruff (Expansion of Races, p. 193) estimates about one million prostitutes in this country. Roe asserts that the average life of these girls is about five years. This means that two hundred thousand prostitutes die every year in the United States and are replaced by new ones, or two hundred thousand girls are led into a life of shame, every year, in this country.

BU Belaschko’s statistics show that fifty-five per cent. of all the venal women in Berlin come from the great cities and forty-five per cent. from the country. Thirty-four per cent. of these girls belonged to middle-class families and three per cent. of them were graduates from high schools.

BV Social and not economic conditions, says Nascher, are responsible for most of the prostitution in New York City. Very few are driven to it through want.

BW Gibb (N. Y. Med. Record, 1907, p. 643), who examined nine hundred children for the society of prevention of cruelty to children, has found girls of nine or ten years of age and even younger with abnormally developed instincts who often submit willingly.

The author had once under treatment for chancre a child of eleven years of age who submitted to concubitus for money to be able to buy pretty clothes. Her mother, a widow, was well able to support her and did so. There was no question of poverty.

In another case, a girl of twelve, already menstruating, whose mother was in an insane asylum, “tentavit tangere genitalia medici sui,” while being examined for bronchitis.

BX Clifford G. Roe (in Woman’s World, September, 1909) claims that the average life of the prostitutes is about five years, according to the best statistics.

BY Through the consultation about pregnancy, several cases became known to the author where respectable young men and women, who, known to each other and of the same set in society, would never had thought of indulging in illicit venery, after participating in a carouse together found themselves in some hotel the next morning, without the least knowledge how they landed there.

BZ The automobile has caused the ruin of more respectable girls than all the poverty of the slums has ever been able to accomplish.

CA In the present state of society, the most rabid, radical and free-love advocate will scarcely cherish the thought of his young daughter becoming impregnated by a chance acquaintance. Nor will the child, born of such a union, thank his parents for the bestowal of the handicap of illegitimacy upon his life journey.

CB How little influence fear of infection has upon the conduct of our young men, leading a promiscuous life, shows the following characteristic case. The author was consulted by a young man, engaged to be married, who was suffering from gonorrhoea, complicated by a terrible orchitis. He was put to bed where he suffered terrific pains for quite a number of days. The first question the patient asked, after he got well, was whether he may marry the next month. He was warned against marrying before repeated examinations have shown the absence of gonococci. He then requested some drug for the prevention of another infection. Now, if there ever was a man who had a reason to fear infection, it surely was he. He suffered enough. Still he was ready again to plunge into his promiscuous sex-life, without any thought of the young girl who was waiting to become his bride.

CC Col. L. M. Maus, U. S. A., has used among the troops of his department of the Lakes for one year, with surprisingly effective results, a small tin collapsible tube containing a paste made of phenol 3 per cent., calomel 25 per cent. and lanolin 72 per cent. He has found this paste an absolute preventive against gonorrhoea, chancroid and syphilis, if properly used within half an hour after contact. One-third of the paste is squeezed into the urethra, the remaining two-thirds are applied to the glans. Cleansing the genitalia is not necessary, if the tube is used.

CD As long as there is a supply of prostitutes there will always be a demand for the services of these unfortunates. The notion that it is the demand which creates the supply has been spread by superficial observers. It was not the demand for the telephone that led to its invention, or the demand for railroads that led to invention of the steam engine. As long as we allow mental defectives to propagate their kind, there will always be degenerate women who will prostitute themselves, and by this very act create a demand.

CE Le Pileur says: Lessons to young girls, showing them the dangers to which they expose themselves, can only have a favorable influence. Perhaps the physicians of Saint-Lazare will then hear no more, from at least one-fourth of all these unfortunate girls in this institution, that they have given themselves to some stranger. We will not hear twenty per cent. of them answer that they have allowed themselves to be defloured out of curiosity, to know what it is, to be as smart as their friends.

This ignorance is due to the fact that the majority of parents have no more knowledge of sex than what is known to every animal by instinct. Pinard (Chronique Médicale, 1903, p. 488) says: “Jusqu’à présent l’acte procréateur n’a été qu’un acte instinctif tel qu’il existait à l’âge des cavernes, c’est le seul de nos instincts n’ayant pas été civilisé. L’acte est accompli à l’aurore du XXe siècle comme à l’âge de pierre.”

CF The Sanitarian (March, 1904) claims that not one per cent. of prostitutes are able to read or write because they are of such a low order of intelligence that they cannot be educated.

CG What are a few generations in the history of humanity? One to two centuries represent only a short space of time. Prostitution is older than history. The Hammurabi codex, paragraph 100, has already rules about Hierodules, or girls consecrated to the service of Venus. Moses, Deuteronomy xxiii, 18, commands: “There shall be no temple prostitute of the daughters of Israel.” Still prostitution existed among the Jews as seen by I. Regum, xiv, 24; xv, 12; xxii, 46; II. Regum, xxiii, 7; Amos, ii, 7; Hosea, iv, 14. At this point the prophet distinguishes between the common and the temple prostitute. If such an ancient institution could be banished from this earth by eugenics within a few centuries, humanity could be satisfied.

CH If the symbol of inheritance be placed as 1, and the symbol of environment as 0, both together will give the figure 10; each alone amounts to little in one case and to nothing in the other.

CI These conditions are now noticed even in our young country, where not only the native of the Anglo-Saxon stock sets a limit to his offspring but also the immigrant, who begins the same practices as soon as he has reached a higher step of the social ladder. The same Russian Jewess who in her native country set her pride to follow the religious dictates of her race to increase and multiply, the same Italian or Irish woman who in her native country would not have thought of defying the tenets of the Catholic church regarding the limitation of offspring, will ask her physician for some anti-conceptional remedy, as soon as she has reached a certain degree of affluence. With wealth and power come love for luxury and ease, and the consequence is the limitation of the offspring.

CJ Any sex-order for breeding purposes must be a public institution, and such an institution would be the worst slavery history has ever seen. Mardach (The Tragedy of Man, twelfth scene) gives in his drama a true picture of the tyranny of such institutions. The hero and heroine of the drama are Adam and Eve, who are repeatedly reincarnated at different important periods in the history of the world but do not know who they are. At the different incarnations they always happen to meet and fall in love with each other. The last reincarnation on this earth takes place several thousand years after our present era. At the end of the twelfth scene, Adam is present, when the old man or judge of the town (called at that period Phalanster) disposes of children and wives. Two women, one of them the reincarnated Eve, arrive with their young children, and the judge, upon the advice of the scientist, decides which trade they should learn.

FIRST SCENE

Judge. Scientist! Examine the skulls of these two children.

Scientist. This child should be brought up to be a physician, the other to be a shepherd.

Judge. Out with them.

Eve. Do not touch him! This is my child. Who dares to tear him away from his mother-breast?

Judge. Take him away! Why tarry with him any longer?

Eve. My child, my child! Did not I nourish thee with my heart-blood? Where is the power that may rend this holy bond? Shall I disclaim thee forever, that thou mayest be lost in the crowd, and my searching eye, in restless fear, shall in vain look for thee among a hundred similar phalanster-types?

Adam. O friend, if ought is sacred to you, leave this child to his poor mother.

Judge. You play, oh stranger, a daring game! If we allow the revival of the conquered prejudice, formerly called the family, then the acquisitions of our present science will tumble at once.

Eve. What is to me your frozen science? May it fall, where nature’s voice speaks.

Judge. Well! will it be done soon? (The child is carried away.)

Eve. My child, my child! (Eve faints.)

SECOND SCENE

Judge. These two women are not mated yet. Those who wish them for pairing come forward.

Adam. Upon this woman make I claim.

Judge. Scientist! What is thy opinion?

Scientist. The man sentimental, the woman nervous, an unhealthy issue would be the result. This pair fits not together.

Adam. Still I shall not let her go, if she wishes me.

Eve. Magnanimous man, I am thine.

Adam. I love thee, oh woman, with the whole fervor of my heart!

Eve. Also I, this I feel, will forever love thee.

Scientist. Why, this is madness. Strange, indeed, to see reappear the spirit of bygone ages in our enlightened world. How comes this?

Adam. It is a late ray of light from paradise.

Judge. It is pitiable.

Adam. Pity us not. This madness is ours. We surely envy not you for your soberness. What in the world ever was great and noble was such madness, which is not confined by circumspect anxiety. The angel’s speech that sweetly sounds down to us from higher spheres is a safer proof of our soul’s affinity and kinship to the higher regions. We despise the low common dust of this earth, boldly searching the road to the higher spheres. (He holds Eve in close embrace.)

Judge. Why listen any longer to this nonsense. Away to the hospital with both of them.

This poetical fancy gives, nevertheless, a true picture of the conditions our descendants in future generations will have to contend with if the patriarchal doctrines of our radical sociologists should ever materialize. Their order of things must logically lead to the hardest and most bewildering tyranny mankind has ever known. The tyrannical Draconic laws will prescribe what to eat, what to drink, how long to sleep, how to mate, and what the children should be.

This is not a fancy-dream. Even in our free country the drift of the law-giving power is towards such conditions. In one State, it is allowed to drink tea or coffee, but not alcohol, although ten grains caffeine is already a deadly poison, but it will take many more grains alcohol to kill. In another State it is allowed to smoke cigars but not cigarettes, although of the three modes of using tobacco, snuffing, chewing and smoking, the cigar is the worst of the last mode, because, as a rule, it combines the effects of chewing and smoking. Another state forbids marriage without a physician’s certificate, although, if the marriage candidate wishes to conceal the truth, there is no physician living, Neisser, the discoverer of the gonococcus, and Wassermann with his test, included, who could tell with absolute certainty whether a man has been infected or not. Even if the candidate himself, having been infected, wishes to know whether he has been cured, the different tests are of such an elaborate nature that very few physicians, even in the metropolis, are able to make them. Still ignorance passes laws. Besides this, no law, forbidding marriage, can prevent mating and the propagation of the unfit. Even if the king, the representative of the law, should imprison his young daughter in a brazen tower, her Jupiter will find his way to her by a shower of gold.