[106] Dr. Licard de Planzoles--La Fonction Sexuelle. Paris, 1908. [107] Kamillo Karl Schneider--The Prostitute and Society--a Sociological and Ethical Study, Leipsic, 1908. [108] Karl Marx, Capital. [109] Ibid. [110] Berlin, 1893. [111] Max Taube, M. D.--Protection of Illegitimate Children, Leipsic, 1893, Veit & Co. [112] Berlin, 1889, Wm. Iszleib. [113] In a pamphlet on “Capital and the Press,” Berlin, 1891, Dr. F. Mehring relates that a talented actress was employed at a well known theatre at a monthly salary of $25, while the expenses for her wardrobe amounted to $250 in a single month. The difference was made up by a “friend.” [114] At the conference of the purity societies on September 20, 1894, at the instance of Dr. Wagner an investigation was decided upon. The results of this investigation have been published in two volumes, entitled: The Sexual Morality of Protestant Country People in the German Empire, 1895–1896. [115] Prof. S. Bettman--Medical Supervision of Prostitutes. Handbook of the social science of medicine, Jena, 1905. [116] Ibid. [117] S. Turcranji and S. Engel. The Foundling System in Italy. Quarterly journal of public hygiene, 1903. [118] Encyclopedia of Social Science; 3d edition, vol. iv., 1909. Article: Foundling Asylums. [119] Encyclopedia of Social Science, 1909. [120] Schnapper Arndt. [121] F. Prinzing--The Causes of Still-Births. General records of statistics, 1907. 5.--Crimes Against Morality and Sexual Diseases. We must still briefly dwell upon another evil that is often met with. An excess of sexual enjoyment is far more harmful than the want of same. An organism abused by excesses is eventually destroyed. Impotence, sterility, idiocy, feeble mindedness and other diseases result. Temperance in sexual intercourse is as necessary as temperance in eating and drinking, and other human requirements. But young men living in luxury seem to find it very difficult to be temperate. Therefore we often find senility among young men of the upper classes. The number of old and young roués is large, and because they are satiated and dulled by excesses, they require special stimulants. Beside those in whom love for their own sex (sodomy) is innate, there are many who succumb to this perversity of the Greek age. Sodomy is far more widespread than most of us imagine; the secret documents of many police departments might reveal appalling facts.[122] Among the women, too, the perversities of ancient Greece have been revived. Lesbian, or Sapphic love is, so Taxel claims, prevalent to an enormous degree among the fashionable ladies of Paris. In Berlin about a quarter of the prostitutes indulge in this perverse passion and it is not unknown among the fashionable women, either.