Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical JurisprudenceTalmey, Bernard Simon
Science
Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence
Talmey, Bernard Simon
Sex
[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.
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