r
oeffentlichen Sittlichkeit in Deutschland_ (_History of Public
Morals in Germany_), 2nd ed., Berlin, 1905, p. 4 _et seq._ _Cf._
also, Alfred Martin, _Deutsches Badewesen in vergangenen Tagen_
(_German Bathing Customs in Former Days_), Jena, 1906.

[132] A German law dealing with offences against sexual
morals.--TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.

[133] I owe to private information, most kindly given me by Dr.
Bohn, my knowledge of numerous details bearing on this question.

[134] _Romanische Liebe und persoenliche Schoenheit_ (_Romantic
Love and Personal Beauty_), 2nd ed., Breslau, 1894, vol. ii. p.
58.

[135] This does not conflict with the fact that in these circles
also much hypocrisy is practised--much more certainly than in our
own country (Germany). To a still greater extent is this true of
England, where also in many circles all illegitimate sexual
intercourse is proscribed, thus leading to the practice of
hypocrisy. Because a large proportion of the population does not
practise illegitimate intercourse, those who do indulge in it are
led to conceal as far as possible their own illegitimate
intercourse; as a result of this we find side by side and
simultaneously in the same circle, on the one hand a prohibition
of illegitimate intercourse based upon genuine conviction, and on
the other a hypocritical condemnation of such intercourse.
Further, we have to admit that the question is an exceptionally
difficult one, precisely on account of the hypocrisy and lies in
which the sexual life is enveloped. Naturally, where illegitimate
intercourse is forbidden, those who do indulge are far more
careful, and especially in guarding against venereal infection,
lest the illness should betray them to others. A communication
made to me very recently suggests the need for great caution in
our judgment in these matters. A foreign university professor
gives his students very fine lectures on the sexual life, laying
great stress on the beauty and importance of sexual abstinence.
The lecturer was convinced that as a result of his lectures his
students were exceptionally chaste and abstinent. But a colleague
of this same professor at the university is no less firmly
convinced, and this as the result of reports from members of his
friend's audience, that the assumed chastity of the students is
purely imaginary, and that in actual fact their lives are just as
loose as those of students in general.

[136] See the article on "Coeducation" in _B