[BV] Social and not economic conditions, says Nascher, are responsible for most of the prostitution in New York City. Very few are driven to it through want.
[BW] Gibb (N. Y. Med. Record, 1907, p. 643), who examined nine hundred children for the society of prevention of cruelty to children, has found girls of nine or ten years of age and even younger with abnormally developed instincts who often submit willingly.
The author had once under treatment for chancre a child of eleven years of age who submitted to concubitus for money to be able to buy pretty clothes. Her mother, a widow, was well able to support her and did so. There was no question of poverty.
In another case, a girl of twelve, already menstruating, whose mother was in an insane asylum, “tentavit tangere genitalia medici sui,” while being examined for bronchitis.
[BX] Clifford G. Roe (in Woman’s World, September, 1909) claims that the average life of the prostitutes is about five years, according to the best statistics.
[BY] Through the consultation about pregnancy, several cases became known to the author where respectable young men and women, who, known to each other and of the same set in society, would never had thought of indulging in illicit venery, after participating in a carouse together found themselves in some hotel the next morning, without the least knowledge how they landed there.
[BZ] The automobile has caused the ruin of more respectable girls than all the poverty of the slums has ever been able to accomplish.
[CA] In the present state of society, the most rabid, radical and free-love advocate will scarcely cherish the thought of his young daughter becoming impregnated by a chance acquaintance. Nor will the child, born of such a union, thank his parents for the bestowal of the handicap of illegitimacy upon his life journey.
[CB] How little influence fear of infection has upon the conduct of our young men, leading a promiscuous life, shows the following characteristic case. The author was consulted by a young man, engaged to be married, who was suffering from gonorrhoea, complicated by a terrible orchitis. He was put to bed where he suffered terrific pains for quite a number of days. The first question the patient asked, after he got well, was whether he may marry the next month. He was warned against marrying before repeated examinations have shown the absence of gonococci. He then requested some drug for the prevention of another infection. Now, if there ever was a man who had a reason to fear infection, it surely was he. He suffered enough. Still he was ready again to plunge into his promiscuous sex-life, without any thought of the young girl who was waiting to become his bride.
[CC] Col. L. M. Maus, U. S. A., has used among the troops of his department of the Lakes for one year, with surprisingly effective results, a small tin collapsible tube containing a paste made of phenol 3 per cent., calomel 25 per cent. and lanolin 72 per cent. He has found this paste an absolute preventive against gonorrhoea, chancroid and syphilis, if properly used within half an hour after contact. One-third of the paste is squeezed into the urethra, the remaining two-thirds are applied to the glans. Cleansing the genitalia is not necessary, if the tube is used.