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Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
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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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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AND WANT AND THREATENED STARVATION HELD OUT TO VIRTUE. daily rushing into matrimony whose physical, mental, and magneticuncongenialities are only discovered to them after the honey-moonhas cooled down their impulses, and left their reasoning faculties un-obscured by the infatuation of passion. When they awaken fromtheir dream, they find the civil law a reality, and that they must con-tent themselves to live in their adulterous relation one with the other 180 CAUSES OF NERVOUS AND BLOOD DERANGEMENTS. or incur public disgrace by the commission of some crime which willentitle them to a divorce. They may not in all cases aim directly atthis, bat they feel a kind of recklessness which leads them to decidethat they cannot, under any circumstances, plunge themselves into aworse condition. Some suggestions for removing this evil will begiven in Part IV. Another fruitful cause of prostitution in large cities is the smallcompensation awarded to female labor. In consequence of this, feware able

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