[EB] Feminine modesty and coyness have become real instinctive sentiments by which woman dominates man. This dominance is so great that among all peoples the male sex is and was always subjected to the rule of the female despite appearances to the contrary, and in the face of all the laws against her. [EC] Virtue and moral consciousness, says Schrenk-Notzing, are not inherited in any person, man or woman. We inherit only the disposition to goodness and right-willing as we may that of cruelty. [ED] The radical preachers of revolt against chastity are fond to assert that chastity has been forced upon women by men. This assertion does not betray profound logic. The entire institution of monogamy, or of marriage for that matter, is in the interest of woman and eminently adapted to her needs only. Woman’s greatest need is to love and to be loved, a man can more readily sublimate his sexual instinct into higher channels. The same shallowness of observation is shown in catch-phrases, such as this: “Once women married because they were not permitted to work at all, now they marry because they are forced to work beyond their endurance.” And why do men marry? Not for the satisfaction of their sexual desires; this they can have without the valuable privilege of being allowed to support some other men’s daughters. No, men and women marry because, if they are not degenerates, they are driven to marriage by the permanent mating instinct, which is innate in man for the benefit of the offspring. [EE] Noeggerat claims that, in the city of New York, of 1000 married men 800 have had gonorrhoea, 90 per cent. of all these have not been healed and can infect their wives. As a result, at least three out of every five married women in New York have gonorrhoea as a gift of their husbands. These statistics may be somewhat exaggerated, still the percentage of diseased young men is appalling. At least 50 per cent. of young men approaching the age of maturity become infected with venereal diseases in a single year. Kirchner, of the Prussian ministerium of cultus, claims that about one hundred thousand men suffer daily of venereal diseases within the Prussian monarchy. The result is a loss of a daily income of at least 250,000 marks, or a loss of 90,000,000 marks a year. Rogers claims that over ninety per cent. of our young men stray from the paths of virtue before marriage; sixty per cent. contract venereal diseases which are difficult to cure. More wives than prostitutes have venereal diseases, innocently contracted from husbands. Thousands of unborn babies are annually killed by parental infection. Sixty per cent. of the blindness in this country is due to venereal diseases. One-eighth of all cases in New York hospitals are venereal. Two hundred thousand infected persons walk the streets of New York daily. Among men the author meets with in his practice or socially, the man who never had gonorrhoea once at least in his life is an extreme rarity.