positive restraint under all circumstances. Strict continence is

neither injurious to health, nor does it produce impotence. While

self-denial is difficult, since the promptings of nature often seem

imperious, it is not impossible. It is certain that no youth will

suffer, physically, by remaining sexually pure. The demands which

occur during adolescence are mainly abnormal, due to the excitements

of an overstimulating diet, pornographic literature and art, and the

temptations of impure association.

WHY YOUNG MEN GO WRONG

Foul thoughts, once they enter the mind, corrode it. The sensual

glance, the bawdy laugh, the ribald jest, the smutty story, the

obscene song may be met with on street corner, in the car, train,

hotel lobby, lecture hall and workshop. Mental unchastity ends in

physical unchastity. The habit common to most adolescent boys and

young men of relating smutty stories, repeating foul jokes and making

indecent allusions destroys respect for virtue. In addition there are

such direct physical causes of undue adolescent sexual excitement as

constipation and alcoholism, and such mental ones as nervous

irritability.

To the constant discussion and speculation regarding sex and its

mysteries by the adolescent young male, must be added the artificial

idea that idle prattling on the subject is a sign of "manhood." Thus

many young men whose natural trend is in the direction of decency and

right sexual living, "step out" or "go to see the girls," as the

phrase is, because they think that otherwise "they are not real men."

More subtle in its evil effect, yet somewhat less dangerous

physically, perhaps, than the professional prostitute is the lure of

the "hidden" prostitute, who carefully conceals her derelictions, and

publicly wraps herself in a mantle of virtue.

PROSTITUTION

The training of the average male mind in impure language and thought

during boyhood and adolescence, the cultivation of his animal at the

expense of the moral nature, often leads the adolescent to seek

satisfaction by frequenting the prostitute.

_Prostitution_, known as the "social evil," is promiscuous unchastity

for gain. It has existed in all civilized countries from earliest

times. Prostitution abuses the instinct for reproduction, the basic

element of sex, to offer certain women a livelihood which they prefer

to other means. Love of excitement, inherited criminal propensities,




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