The Laws of Sex (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Laws of Sex<br><br>Some seventeen years ago when I was a student in the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, I became greatly interested in the problem of the Social Evil. Individual cases in the gyncological clinic aroused my sympathy and indignation, and I resolved to study the problem later and to do what I could toward ameliorating conditions. By a fortunate circumstance, Dr. Hooker was also vitally interested in the problem. After our marriage we lived abroad for some time, and with the generous help of Dr. A. Blaschko and Dr. Max Marcuse carried on some interesting investigations in Berlin, which later led to our founding in Baltimore a home for unmarried mothers and their children called the Guild of St. George. We learned much from this venture, particularly that the solution of the problem depended intrinsically, not upon the reform of women, but upon the reform of men. So convinced did we become of this fact that we soon turned our efforts toward the emancipation of women, and temporarily gave over the more direct attack upon the problem of the social evil.<br><br>Case after case proved beyond a doubt that until women had direct political power within their hands the double standard of morals upon which the whole problem rested would be unassailable. Now that this first step toward progress has been achieved we turn back to our original interest, for we believe that the enfranchisement of women has released the power essential to a successful, constructive campaign against sexual promiscuity and its attendant infections.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.