indolence and abnormal sex appetite are first causes of prostitution.

Difficulty in finding work, laborious and ill-paid work, harsh

treatment of girls at home, indecent living among the poor, contact

with demoralizing companions, loose literature and amusements are

secondary causes. They all contribute to debauch male and female youth

and lead it to form dangerous habits of vicious sensual indulgence.

Prostitution seems inseparable from human society in large

communities. The fact is acknowledged in the name given it, "the

necessary evil." Regulation and medical control only arrest in a

degree the spread of venereal diseases to which prostitution gives

rise. The elementary laws on which prostitution rests seems to be

stronger than the artificial codes imposed by moral teaching. It is an

evil which must be combatted _individually_. Men are principally

responsible, in one way or another, for the existence of the social

evil. In the case of the young man, abstention is the only cure for

the probable results of indulging his animal passions by recourse to

the prostitute.

Prostitution, both public and private is the most dangerous menace to

society at large. It is the curse of individual young manhood because

of the venereal diseases it spreads. One visit to a house of

prostitution may ruin a young man's health and life, and millions of

human beings die annually from the effects of poison contracted in

these houses. "Wild oats" sown in company with the prostitute usually

bear fruit in the shape of the most loathsome and destructive sex

disorders.

The development of self-control, the avoidance of impure thoughts and

associations, the cultivation of the higher moral nature instead of

the lower animal one, and, finally, _marriage_, should prevent the

young man from falling into prostitution. All the state and medical

regulation in the world will not protect him from the venereal

diseases he is so apt to acquire by such indulgence.

FREE LOVE

Free love is the doctrine of _unrestrained choice, without binding

ties_, in sexual relations. For altogether different reasons, however,

it is quite as objectionable as prostitution for the young man. It may

offer better hygienic guarantees. But it is a sexual partnership which

is opposed to the fundamental institution of _marriage_, on which

society in general is based throughout the world. And, aside from the

fact that it is a promiscuous relationship not sanctioned by law or

society, it is seldom practically successful. It cannot admit of true




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