[103] The numerical preponderance which celibate women teachers have now gained in the American school system has caused much misgiving among many sagacious observers, and is said to be unsatisfactory in its results on the pupils of both sexes. A distinguished authority, Professor McKeen Cattell ("The School and the Family," _Popular Science Monthly_, Jan., 1909), referring to this preponderance of "devitalized and unsexed spinsters," goes so far as to say that "the ultimate result of letting the celibate female be the usual teacher has been such as to make it a question whether it would not be an advantage to the country if the whole school plant could be scrapped." [104] Corre (_Les Criminels_, p. 351) mentions that of thirteen priests convicted of crime, six were guilty of sexual attempts on children, and of eighty-three convicted lay teachers, forty-eight had committed similar offenses. This was at a time when lay teachers were in practice almost compelled to live a celibate life; altered conditions have greatly diminished this class of offense among them. Without going so far as crime, many moral and religious men, clergymen and others, who have led severely abstinent lives in youth, sometimes experience in middle age or later the eruption of almost uncontrollable sexual impulses, normal or abnormal. In women such manifestations are apt to take the form of obsessional thoughts of sexual character, as e.g., the case (_Comptes-Rendus Congrès International de Médecine_, Moscow, 1897, vol. iv, p. 27) of a chaste woman who was compelled to think about and look at the sexual organs of men. [105] J.A. Godfrey, _The Science of Sex_, p. 138. [106] See, e.g., Havelock Ellis, "St. Francis and Others," _Affirmations_. CHAPTER VII. PROSTITUTION. I. _The Orgy:_--The Religious Origin of the Orgy--The Feast of Fools--Recognition of the Orgy by the Greeks and Romans--The Orgy Among Savages--The Drama--The Object Subserved by the Orgy. II. _The Origin and Development of Prostitution:_--The Definition of Prostitution--Prostitution Among Savages--The Conditions Under Which Professional Prostitution Arises--Sacred Prostitution--The Rite of Mylitta--The Practice of Prostitution to Obtain a Marriage Portion--The Rise of Secular Prostitution in Greece--Prostitution in the East--India, China, Japan, etc.--Prostitution in Rome--The Influence of Christianity on Prostitution--The Effort to Combat Prostitution--The Mediæval Brothel--The Appearance of the Courtesan--Tullia D'Aragona--Veronica Franco--Ninon de Lenclos--Later Attempts to Eradicate Prostitution--The Regulation of Prostitution--Its Futility Becoming Recognized.