impulse, object to
meretricious intercourse at once on ethical and aesthetic grounds.
The ethical ground is that intercourse with a prostitute
infringes the elementary principle of civilised morals, that one
human being should not use another as a mere means to the ends of
the former, but that each of us must treat all human beings as
ends in themselves; considering the general character of
prostitution, the fact that obligations to the individual
prostitute are supposed to be discharged by a conventional money
payment, does not countervail the fact that this moral principle
is infringed. On the aesthetic objections to prostitution, it is
hardly necessary to enlarge; they have been felt by all men with
refined sensibilities. But it is precisely these refined
sensibilities which are blunted by even moderate doses of
alcohol--doses insufficiently great to abate the sexual impulse
itself. I do not mean to suggest that prostitution would not
continue, in the present economic and social conditions, were
there no intoxicants in the world; but I think an evening spent
in quiet observation in the "promenade" of a "fashionable" London
music-hall will convince most people that the above-described
effects of alcohol are by no means purely imaginary.--TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.

[151] The arguments against raising the Age of Consent for women
beyond the age of sixteen now specified in the Criminal Law
Amendment Act of 1885, as ably summarised by Havelock Ellis,
should be consulted in this connexion. See his _Studies in the
Psychology of Sex_, vol. vi., _Sex in Relation to Society_, pp.
528-30. Davis, Philadelphia, 1910.--TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.

[152] "Die Anfaenge einer Erziehung zu geistiger und koerperlicher
Gesundheit waehrend des ersten Lebensjahres" ("The Beginnings of
an Education for the Maintenance of Mental and Bodily Health, as
applied during the First Year of Life"), _Fortschritte der
Medizin_, 1908, No. 21.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

"ABREACTION," 278

Abstinence, sexual. _See_ Sexual abstinence

Accuracy, sexual differences in, 41

Accusations, false, by children, 227

Acme, voluptuous. _See_ Orgasm; _and also_ Voluptuousness

Adenoids, 207

Adequacy of sexual act, 31, 32, 88, 89

Advertisements, perverse, 240-245

Age for the sexual enlightenment, 289-290

Age of consent, 230, 314, 315

"Age of reason," 275

Alarm at sexual manifestations, 213

Albums, 15

Alcohol, 160, 161,