these conditions of unrestrained sex association. Sex precocity is

furthered in coeducational colleges, in the high school and the home.

Adolescents of both sexes too often are practically unhampered in

their comings and goings, their words and actions. The surreptitious

pocket flask, filled with "hooch," is often a feature of social

parties, dances and affairs frequented by young people. Girls and boys

drink together, and as alcohol weakens moral resistance in the one

case, and stimulates desire in the other, deplorable consequences

naturally result. In the United States the number of girls "sent home"

from colleges, and of high-school girls being privately treated by

physicians to save them from disgrace, is incredibly large.

Parents who do not control the social activities of their daughters,

who permit them to spend their evenings away from home with only a

general idea of what they are doing or whom they are meeting, need not

be surprised if their morals are undermined.

_The Auto._--The advent of the automobile is responsible for an easy

and convenient manner of satisfying precociously aroused sex instincts

in young girls and boys. Often, unconscientious pleasure-seekers roam

the roads in their auto. They accost girls who are walking and offer

them a "lift." When the latter refuse to gratify their desires they

are often beaten and flung from the car. The daily press has given

such publicity to this civilized form of "head hunting," that it is

difficult to sympathize with girls who are thus treated. They cannot

help but know that in nine cases out of ten, a stranger who invites

them to a ride, who "picks" them up, does so with the definite purpose

already mentioned in view.

_Poverty._--Poverty, too, plays a large part in driving young girls

into a life of vice. In all our large cities there are hundreds of

young women who earn hardly enough to buy food and fuel and pay for

the rent of a room in a cheap lodging house. Feminine youth longs for

dress, for company, for entertainment. It is easy enough to find a

"gentleman friend" who will provide all three, in exchange for

"companionship." So the bargain is struck. These conditions exist in a

hundred and one occupations. A young woman may go to a large city as

pure as snow, but finding no lucrative employment, lonely and

despondent, she is led to take her first step on the downward path.

Soon daily contact with vice removes abhorrence to it. Familiarity

makes it habitual, and another life is ruined. The heartless moral




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