[D] We refer, of course, to such preventive methods as are completely harmless to the persons making use of them. Methods for the prevention of conception, in general fulfil this condition.
We must endeavour in this way to bring about a vast and universal sterilisation of all worthless, incapable or diseased people, without attempting to prohibit in an ascetic and impracticable manner the gratification of their normal sexual instinct and their desire for affection.
The qualification for parentage must not be the possession of a certain amount of money or property, but solely the social worth and intrinsic hereditary qualities of the two individuals.
The multiplication of all who are healthy, capable, and ethically fit must be encouraged as far as possible.
An excessive frequency of childbirths in the case of one woman must be prevented and regulated by the use of the means mentioned above.
In this way we shall carry out a true racial selection and prepare the way for a better and happier Humanity. And so at last we shall have brought our true sexual ethics into living being and reality.
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THE SEXUAL QUESTION.
A SCIENTIFIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL, HYGIENIC, and SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY for the CULTURED CLASSES.