This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...For this reason, the portrayal should be made to them at that impressionable age when youth is all alive with chivalrous feelings and is expanding into social enthusiasm. This statement is not intended to deny that women are sometimes the active agents in their own fall; but broadly even such women are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...For this reason, the portrayal should be made to them at that impressionable age when youth is all alive with chivalrous feelings and is expanding into social enthusiasm. This statement is not intended to deny that women are sometimes the active agents in their own fall; but broadly even such women are exploiting this lust of men for other than strictly sexual motives. They seek support, luxury, escape from unbearable surroundings, --or are subnormal or unbalanced mentally. (3) Venereal diseases. These so-called social diseases are spread through society largely through prostitution. They are extremely communicable and insidious, and men and women who lead irregular lives sexually are certain to be infected with them sooner or later. It is difficult to get statistics that are reliable, but even conservative physicians have estimated that fully one-eighth of all the disease which afflicts humanity comes from unclean sexual life. The two most dangerous of these sex-diseases are gonorrhea and syphilis. These two diseases are the most prevalent and fatal diseases among human beings. Gonorrhea is caused by a germ which attacks the mucous membrane of the reproductive passages and may ascend to the very remotest organs, --the ovaries and testes. It may produce entire sterility. Diseased husbands thus infect their wives and may render them invalid and barren. Children born of such mothers are readily infected, and the disease often produces blindness dating from birth. In many institutions for the blind it is known that no less than 50 per cent of the inmates have lost their sight through gonorrhea. It is uncertain whether this disease is ever completely curable, transmission to others often occurring long after patients have believed themselves cured..
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