Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    Legislation on the matter has been denounced as being illegal, because it is contrary to the moral law; but I have found that, taking the world as a whole, morality is a question of local custom, which varies greatly in different races. For instance, Mohammedans regard monogamy as unclean, and contrary to religion and physiology. Such legislation is unjust, inasmuch as it is directed against one sex only ; immodest it cer- tainly is in many ways ; but to the scientific mind its main fault is that it is ineffective. The experi- ence of the police on the Continent is to the effect that, when certain women are licensed and under observation, a large amount of disease is propa- gated by girls and women presumably respect- able. In Japan there is an admirable system, by which the women are licensed and made to occupy certain quarters ; and this alone, apart from any question of medical inspection or police super- vision, tends to enable cleanliness to be observed, and to prevent solicitation outside their quarters. This method is an improvement upon the British and American habit of blinding oneself to un- pleasant truths, and allowing this class of women to be harried and unhoused, and subjected to