Essays in medical sociology, Volume 1 (of 2)Blackwell, Elizabeth
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Essays in medical sociology, Volume 1 (of 2)
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Prostitution; Sexual ethics; Social medicine
The foregoing physiological law is a truth full of hope and promise
of infinite progress, for nations have hitherto perished in large
measure through the abuse and degradation of women. The regulation of
sexual intercourse in the best interests of womanhood is the hitherto
unrecognised truth of Christianity, towards which we are slowly
groping. When it is fully accepted, a fresh spring of vigour will have
been discovered for the human race.
APPENDIX II. (PAGE 32)
The following sound advice on sexual physiology from the _Lancet_
should be widely known:
‘Young men in their conflict with temptation to sexual advice often
suffer under the disadvantage of receiving but little help from those
to whom they ought to look for it with confidence. Few parents have
the knowledge and the wisdom to tell their sons the most important
truths about the sexual passion just at the time when it is becoming
developed in them, and the latter are therefore left an easy prey to
their strange desires, and to those “lewd fellows of the baser sort”
who are always at hand to corrupt innocent youth.
‘If it is true that to a very large extent parents are unmindful of
one of their gravest responsibilities, it is no less true that the
medical profession has often failed in its duty in connection with
this subject. Medical writers and medical men generally are too often
silent on this matter, and unfortunately, when the silence has been
broken, it has not always been with words of truth and soberness.
We are constantly hearing and saying that “knowledge is power,” yet
we find that little effort is made to impart the knowledge which
would largely aid in preserving the virtue of the young, and the most
pernicious teaching of those who for the lowest of reasons propagate
error is left unnoticed.
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