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
We must ourselves recognise the truth, and instruct parents, that
it is a physiological untruth to suppose that sexual congress is
indispensable to male health. We must warn our young men that no loose
woman picked up in the streets, or in a brothel, or in her own house,
can be pronounced physically safe, no matter how attractive she may
seem to be. We must warn our poor young women patients that yielding
to the solicitations of a supposed lover may unfit them to become
healthy wives and mothers. We must persistently arouse the conscience
of parents to the very grave risks that their daughters run in uniting
themselves to men of former loose life.
This is the confidential but imperative duty of true physicians. It is
by quiet but never-ceasing effort to spread the true view of scientific
medicine amongst our patients, and wherever the opportunity occurs,
that our influence as Christian physicians will gradually permeate
society, and cause truth to prevail over error.
If you perceive that the principles I have laid down are sound, then
hold to them firmly as the most precious truth.
Meet together to mature practical applications of those principles by
intercommunication of experience and mutual encouragement, feeling
sure that where two or three meet together in the everlasting Spirit
of THE CHRIST, you will find, as I have found during a long life, that
light and strength will be given you, and as earnest followers of the
Great Physician you will take part in that mighty work of regeneration,
which from our present small beginnings will, I fully believe, grow and
transfigure the twentieth century.
APPENDIX I. (PAGE 91)
The following testimony is by Dr. T. GAILLARD THOMAS, a recognised
gynæcological authority of New York.
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