[391] F. Schiller, “Rescue-Work and the Suppression of Prostitution,” ibid., 1903, 1904, vol. ii., pp. 294-313, 341-349.
[392] Ibid., 1906, vol. iii., pp. 336-350.
[393] P. Kampffmeyer, “Educational Work in Connexion with Prostitutes,” ibid., pp. 351, 352.
[394] E. Kromayer, “The Physician and the Protection of Motherhood,” published in Mutterschutz, 1905, vol. iii., pp. 351-352.
[395] Quite recently—October, 1906—the first step in this direction has been taken. The Chief Commissioner of the Berlin Police addressed to the medical specialists in venereal diseases an inquiry whether they were prepared to treat gratuitously impecunious prostitutes who were not under police control. The girls would then be given a register of these doctors. If they presented themselves for treatment, no particulars about them would be demanded from the physician. The presentation by the patients to the police of a certificate from a medical man would suffice to exempt them from police control, and from compulsory examination and treatment at the police department of the section of the town to which they belonged. Further details will be arranged later in co-operation with the Committee of the Society for the Suppression of Venereal Diseases.
In his valuable study, “The Future of Prostitution,” published in the monthly magazine Mutterschutz, July, 1907, pp. 274-288, Havelook Ellis also takes an extremely optimistic view regarding the gradual and inevitable diminution of prostitution by indirect means—that is to say, in this way we are elevating ourselves socially and economically to a higher stage of humanity.
CHAPTER XVI
STATES OF SEXUAL IRRITABILITY AND SEXUAL WEAKNESS
(Auto-erotism, Masturbation, Sexual Hyperæsthesia and Sexual Anæsthesia, Seminal Emissions, Impotence, and Sexual Neurasthenia).
“The conditions of modern civilization render auto-erotism a phenomenon of increasing social importance.”—Havelock Ellis.