Social Hygiene Legislation Manual, 1921 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...women. Protects the community from offensive and detrimental proximity of prostitution. Decreases graft in connection with prostitution, and the exploitation of the prostitute. The truth is that SEGREGATION: Increases crime by fostering viciousness and disease, providing a meeting-place for the idle and vicious, with whom, rather than with the police, the prostitutes sympathize and usually cooperate. Fosters sexual perversions and abnormalities by educating men in habits of promiscuous sex relations until they cannot be satisfied by the professional prostitute, except by perversions which she is compelled to practice. Exposes boys and young men to contact with the prostitute, by presenting an ever-present opportunity to "go down the line and see the sights." Provides a showplace for special obscene and depraved exhibitions, to which the youth is lured by "runners" and the sale of lewd pictures. Increases prostitution by increasing the demand, which increases the supply. Increases venereal diseases by deceiving the ignorant into a disastrous reliance upon a frequently "faked" and inevitably futile medical inspection. Increases prostitution, making it familiar by continual advertisement. Affords a place of commerce, otherwise uncertain and precarious, to the least competent of prostitutes, mentally and physically. Stimulates an illegal liquor traffic, since commercialized prostitution does not flourish without liquor. "Incites crimes against women by fostering sexual promiscuity and providing a source of sexual brutalization and degeneracy. Exposes the community by advertising prostitution as a community necessity, making it easily accessible and tolerated, a condition conducive to the moral degradation of the community. Inc...