Sexual ethics / by August Forel ; translated from the German by Ashley Dukes.

  • Forel, Auguste, 1848-1931.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Sexual ethics / by August Forel ; translated from the German by Ashley Dukes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    chronic gonorrhoea can poison marriage, and that decay of the spinal marrow (locomotor ataxia) and the so-called softening of the brain (progressive or general paralysis) are nothing eise than a very late result of syphilis, appear- ing from ten to twenty years after infection. In a brief Statistical discussion of the question, based upon medical Information, I have shown that seventy-five per cent of venereal infections are acquired while in a state of alcoholic excitement. In the vast majority of these cases the infection is com- municated by means of Prostitution, which, as the result of the incredibly numerous and varied sex relationships of the women, serves simply as a vast manufactory of venereal diseases. It is true that married women are often infected by their husbands or lovers, but this is only a result of the previous visits of the latter to houses of ill-fame. Hygiene and morals both suffer serious injury in this way. Any one who is infected, and nevertheless has sexual connection with a person not