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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ith whomto give up the evil course, I should incur the responsibility of onewho shuts a high pressure safety-valve?—where the individual whosebody and soul I am bound to leave to death and perdition, lest per-chance some others should come to be exposed to temptation V These questions are suggestive, and cannot fail to awaken reflec-tion on the part of those who claim that prostitution is a necessaryevil. Perhaps a little inquiry into the causes of prostitution will set- 178 CAUSES OF NERVOUS AND BLOOD DERANGEMENTS. tie this difficult question. One of the primitive causes, I maintain, isthe premature development of the amative passions of youth by a toostimulating diet. Most parents allow their children in swaddlingclothes to indulge in a diet only suitable for adult age. Do they notknow that condiments, animal food, and coffee, early arouse theslumbering sexual passions of the young? These articles of diet atonce impart undue warmth to the blood, and awaken early sexual de-Fig. 54.
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WHEN SUCH REWARD IS OFFERED FOR VICE. sires in their children, leading boys to early acquire the arts of thelibertine, and rendering girls susceptible to the amorous advances ofthe opposite sex. Thus, from one parental error, spring up on oneside a host of amative libertines, and on the other, scores of voluptu-ous women who have not the power to resist temptation, all ofwhom are required by custom to abstain from legal marriage until PROSTITUTION. 179 The remedy for this fchey have nearly or quite passed their teens,evil suggests itself. Another cause is unhappy marriage. This creates thousands of badmen and bad women. The indissolubility of the marriage contractdrives both parties to desperation; makes the husband a willing pa-tron of the harlot, and the wife an easy victim to the libertine. Ig-norant of the laws that should govern marriage, men and women are Fisr. 55.

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