_Sexual Morality, Present and Future._—The keynote of the new sexual morality is freedom on both sides. This means, first, freedom from financial considerations. Love is a deep-rooted instinct, whose fruition means years or a lifetime of happiness or unhappiness for the individuals concerned, and the creation, of the men and women of the future. None of these are purchasable commodities. A man cannot buy a woman’s love, nor a child of his own breeding to do him honor; neither can either sex sell these delights. But, in point of fact, this is just what is done in many cases today, and is what was the common procedure of fifty years ago. Under the dying regime, a woman had to marry for the best home and support she could get. There was no other way open to her to obtain these things. A man knew he could have the best of women for his wife, if he could pay the price of her support. If a man was poor, he must accept accordingly. Men bought women to live with and to mother their children; women traded their loveliness for comfort and ease. Neither could buy love, and neither ever found it, unless the man found it in his mistress. But even then, under this ancient order, a man’s mistress looked with fonder eyes upon his checkbook than upon his face. Why men chose this beastly course is more than inexplicable, but they did, and it was entirely of their own making. Women have a different idea on the subject. They have felt the horror of the man-made way, and have struggled to end it. They have seen that the first step toward any equality was to gain economic equality, and they have wisely fought for that first. Now, they have just achieved it. Woman, as a class, has achieved financial equality with man. This leaves them free to set love, and love alone, as a standard of choice for a mate. The result cannot fail to be wholesomely uplifting to the entire race. Love is gradually coming to be experienced for love only, and not for money.