In fact, among the culture-nations laws against unchastity never existed. Even the Bible has only laws against adultery. The adulteress and her paramour were both stoned (Deuteron. xxii, 24), but the sexual relations of the unmarried woman with any man were entirely ignored by the law. Even rape was no criminal offense—the father of the girl had only a civil action against the rapist (Deuteron. xxii, 28). Such laws would just suit sensual men. It is in their interest that all women except their own wives should lead dissolute lives. But it is in the interest of the married woman, where adultery is prohibited, that all other women should be strictly chaste, so that her husband would be compelled to be faithful to her. Hence it is custom (and in matters of custom woman rules supreme) that dictates chastity. The punishment of a woman’s false step is social ostracism, decreed by women themselves, not by men-made laws. The men-made laws, on the contrary, strike men harder than women. The punishment of the woman’s misconduct in marriage is loss of husband and children, while the man loses wife and children and has to pay her alimony, during her natural life, in the bargain. Yet the fallacy is repeated again and again about men wishing to enslave their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. But why does custom punish woman’s misconduct and why not man’s? Why does the Biblical law discriminate between men and women in regard to adultery? A married woman’s adultery is punished with death, while the law is silent about the married man’s adultery with a single woman. Why this discrimination that is as old as history? Was there a justification for the double standard, and should not the twentieth century change the double into a single standard? If changed, should men become as chaste as women or should womankind be pulled down into the gutter of sensuality to meet the demands of men? The majority of mankind—women included—believes in the justification of the double standard of sex-morality for the two sexes. Men are thought to have greater erotic needs than women. Recently there arose a new spirit in the domain of sex-morality which demands a single standard for both sexes. The societies for moral prophylaxis demand that men should become as chaste as women. In this way the social evil and its satellites, the venereal diseases, would disappear. On the other hand, the radicals have raised a unanimous revolt against self-control in the domain of chastity for either sex. These new moralists preach the right of men and women to the fulfillment of every instinct, every impulse, every dream in all its fullness. This is proclaimed as the new standard of sex-morality. But in truth this subjugation of the individual to the instincts is a complete denial of morality. For morality is the arrest of the instincts by the intellect.