uring the past five years, afraid of having any more,
they first abstained and then adopted a method which every modern
sexologist knows is injurious to the nervous system of both the man
and the woman. The man became a wreck; first neurasthenic, then
impotent, cranky and grouchy, unable to get along in the office,
constantly squabbling with his wife, who became just as bad a wreck.
Their economic condition plus too many small children prevented the
parents' separation. They remained living together, but they lived
like a cat and a dog tied in a bag. Each silently prayed to be rid of
the other. But a conversation overheard at a Turkish baths
establishment put him on the right trail, and one year later we find
the couple reconciled, both in good health and living a peaceful and
fairly harmonious life. And those who have benefited most by the
change are the children. In what way was society injured? And still if
the doctor who gave Mr. G the information should have been caught and
convicted, he would have been sent to prison for a year or two or
five. Would he have deserved it? Here we have several plain, simple,
unvarnished and unembellished cases which are typical of millions of
similar cases and which prove conclusively that the law against
imparting information about preventing conception is brutal, vicious,
antisocial. Should not such a law be repealed, wiped off the statute
books?

FOOTNOTES:

[8] The Limitation of Offspring by the Prevention of Conception.

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

ADVICE TO GIRLS APPROACHING THE THRESHOLD OF WOMANHOOD

The Irresistible Attraction of the Young Girl for the Male--The
Unprotected Girl's Temptations--Some Men Who Will Pester the
Young Girl--Risk of Venereal Infection--Danger of
Impregnation--Use of Contraceptives by the Unmarried Woman May
Not Always Be Relied Upon--Nature of Men who Seduce
Girls--Exceptions--Illegitimate Motherhood--Difficulties in the
Way of Illegitimate Mother Who Must Earn Her Living--The Child of
the Foundling Asylum--Social Attitude Towards Illegitimacy
Responsible for Abortion Evil--Dangers of Abortion--The Girl Who
Has Lost Her Virginity.

When a girl has passed the transition period of puberty and is
entering upon young womanhood she exerts an irresistible attraction on
the male sex. Whether she give the impression of a luscious red rose
or of a delicate white lily, the charms of a beautiful, healthy,
bright girl of seventeen