Methods of education.—There are hundreds of organizations in the world to-day, a part of this great purity movement, engaged in promoting sex education. Some of them possibly may not be working in the wisest way, but as the work is yet in its pioneer days the only way to learn is through trying, and as the public conscience is being thoroughly stirred and countless numbers of our best men and women are studying the problem, we can rest assured that in time ideal methods will be evolved. Physicians who but a few years back were almost a unit in teaching the necessity doctrine for men, to-day are organizing and promoting the very highest and best education. Many denominational churches are establishing purity departments, while Sunday Schools are entering heartily into the great work. Many Normal schools and colleges and private institutions of learning are adopting special instruction in sexology. Parents’ meetings are being held everywhere to promote the cause. Many who have felt a special call to the work are devoting their whole time to lecturing and the preparations of books on these subjects. Prof. T. W. Shannon, of Missouri, the author of this book, is one of the best known of these specialists. Such societies as the White Cross for young men and the White Shield for young women, and departments in women’s clubs, temperance organizations, Christian associations, and church federations, are aiding splendidly in the furthering of this cause.
Legislation.—Much has been done and very much more can be done to lessen the evils of vice through the enactment of suitable laws and the strict enforcement of law. Those who make a business of vice must be adequately punished whether they are engaged in buying and selling girls, living off the blood-money of vicious women, renting property at exorbitant prices, or securing an income and support from the detestable business in any other way. The stage, the press and the street must be purified. Amusements, excursions, and playgrounds should be properly supervised. Immoral literature and obscene pictures must be banished. Social and economic life must be improved. The hours of labor must be shortened, wages must be raised, a minimum wage insisted upon, sanitary conditions in factories and shops must be improved, employment must be assured to all. The Age of Consent should be at least eighteen years in every State. Segregated and tolerated vice districts should be abolished. Those who decoy either girls or boys into disorderly houses, or seek to initiate them into lives of sin, should be severely punished. Every possible protecting measure in law should be thrown about our boys and girls, our young men and young women to shield them from the temptations of vice.
Law enactment and law enforcement.—It is encouraging to note the many good laws that have been passed by our several States and by our National Government during the past few years in line with the above suggestions. Our Federal White Slave Traffic Act, together with the Department that has been established for the suppression of the white slave traffic, is an exceedingly strong piece of legislation, and in conjunction with various State laws against pandering, will suppress in time this awful trade in girls. Age of Consent legislation, ordinances against immoral shows, regulation of public dances and other amusements, and hundreds of other measures, are good laws. It is stated by many reformers that we now have sufficient law to suppress these evils entirely, but that our failure to do so is due to the fact that the laws are not enforced. To remedy this very serious defect law enforcement campaigns are now on in many of the leading cities, and these efforts are rapidly spreading to smaller places. Such campaigns sincerely conducted, will in time lead to the strict enforcement of law in America. It has recently been suggested that every State should organize a bureau or commission for the suppression of public vice and the enforcement of laws against the crimes of vice. If this can be accomplished, it is quite certain to lead to a better enforcement of these particular laws.
Rescue work.—Purity work had its very inception in the rescue of girls and women from houses of shame. It was in connection with this work that the facts pertaining to the methods of organized vice were first uncovered. There are in the United States at the present time probably two hundred and fifty rescue homes for erring girls and women. Unmarried mothers are cared for in many of these homes while the girl who has gone wrong may find shelter and protection in them if she is repentant and sincerely desires to return to a virtuous life. Where houses of shame are closed or segregated districts abolished, it is but humane that the inmates of these resorts be cared for until they can be taught some trade or work that will give them support. Many workers believe that the State should erect model homes for the reception and care of all such girls. Many of the rescue homes now running are under the direction of the Church, or other Christian or religious society. We should remember that in the redemption of every erring girl, we not only gain her but accomplish much in the prevention and destruction of public vice if we can prevent another girl from taking her place in the underworld. It is thus largely a preventive work. Every purity worker who is sincere, believes heartily in rescue work that is wisely and carefully prosecuted.
A personal invitation—Come and battle with us.—This in brief is the purity movement as it has developed and as we find it to-day battling for all that makes for a higher standard of purity in the life of the individual and in social and civic relations, creating a sentiment, a purity literature and an army of well-equipped workers that will make it forever impossible to return to the days of ignorance and prudery that have always existed on matters of self and sex. It proclaims the right of every child to be well born and the right to be followed through life with such an environment and training as will assure the very best development and highest attainment. This is all it asks. Is it too much to strive for? Surely we could not be content with less and be true to the intelligence and soul-life that is ours! No cause since time began has had more to offer to those who enter its ranks than this. It appeals to every true man and woman to help carry its standards to victory, and then when ignorance shall have been abolished by knowledge, vice eradicated by virtue, disease displaced by health, and darkness dispelled by light, there shall be ushered in that Day of Days when man shall be supremely happy because he is pure.
INDEX
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Y].
A
Abortion, a mother’s testimony, [473]
Adolescence, early, [143]
Adolescent, period of boy, [204]
Age, a sad old, [45]
Air, effects of foul, [284]
Alcoholic, effects of fathers, [480]
Animals, baby, [108]
Ant and Bee, devoid of love, [105]
Asylum, a visit to, [487]
Atavism, [442];
examples of, [442]
B
BABY animals, [108];
birds, [105];
fish, [100];
oysters, [99];
let alone, [55]
BATH, air, [285];
air for men, [372];
cold and warm, [279];
cold, easy inure one’s self to, [280];
the friction, [281];
effects on beauty, [279]
BEAUTY, architects of, [276];
and sex nature, [162];
building through bath, [279];
hair, face and teeth, [289];
relation of air to, [283];
some musts and must nots, [164];
substitute for physical, [164];
two kinds of, [162]
Bible and Heredity, [400]
BIRDS, baby, [105];
beginning of love, [104]
Birth, [263]
BIRTH MARKS, [494];
only nervous mothers, [494];
materialistic puzzle, [495];
an experience with government, [495];
an explanation of, [496];
effect of constant mental repetition, [497];
how to prevent, [497];
example of crawfish, [498];
example of mole, [498];
example of amusing case, [502];
example of sympathy, [501];
example of anger, [499];
example of discussed, [500];
a sad case, [502];
child marked twice, [503]
Blind children, [326]
Books, advice concerning, [230]
BOY, the problem of, [34];
should be treated differently than sister, [34];
should be taught to work, [34];
enjoys making money, [34];
future vocation, [36];
moral training should be same as sister, [37];
should play with girls, [38];
companions of, [38];
going to college, [40];
how one tried to be a man, [174];
adolescent period, [204];
struck girl, [159]
BOYS, should protect girls, [214];
may injure themselves, [195];
can live pure, [205];
who make men, [181];
why tempted, [179];
a class of dangerous, [161];
true and pure, [161];
need training, [173];
want to be men, [174];
do not know effects of secret sin, [198]
BOYS and GIRLS should play together, [157];
social nature, [157];
similar information needed, [122]
BOYS and MEN sap their life, [198]
Bravery, the truest, [213]
Breasts, the, [135]
C
Caponized male bird, [219]
Change in life, man or woman, [542]
Change in reproductive system, [538]
CHANGE of LIFE, age when occurs, [534];
other names for, [535];
duration of, [535];
evidence of, [536];
nature of, [535];
some precautions, [537];
some physical disorders, [537];
minor indications of, [544];
positive indications of, [544];
two advantages of, [545];
in man, not unfortunate, [544];
in woman, mysteries made clear, [534]
CHASTITY, basis of genuine love, [443];
value of in marriage, [438]
CHILD, first born, [20];
the training of, [47];
each must be studied, [48];
give something to do, [56];
first idea of wrongdoing, [56];
vital parts of education neglected, [67];
scolding and threatening, [59];
praised for asking about self, [87];
told gradually regarding self, [88];
not exact duplicate of either parent, [426];
resembles both parents, [426];
when moral training should begin, [429];
how to prevent marking, [497]
CHILDREN, study of disposition, [50];
importance of early training, [49];
one million adrift, [78];
new way to instruct, [81];
differ in the same home, [417];
why some are alike and others differ, [419];
products of blind chance, [429];
robbed of birthright, [430];
clear bill of health to, [435];
inheriting low vitality, [436];
few well born, [446];
rights should come first, [546];
of senile men defective, [546]
CHILDHOOD, importance of physical training in, [52];
importance of mental training in, [53];
importance of moral training in, [54];
social conditions change, [63];
knowledge of self important, [63];
confidence of, [64];
the inquisitiveness of, [65];
the unsatisfied mind of, [66]
Christ, need of, [411]
Cigarette, habit, [180]
Colds, prevented, [373]
Company, bad, [214]
Conception, need of rest before, [450]
Condiments, use of, [53]
CONFIDENCE, of boys, destroyed by parents, [76];
of girl, destroyed by mother, [76]
Confidential social advice, [160]
Consumption, [436]
Consumption and cancer, 436
CONTINENCE, sexual necessity theory of, [314];
biological law of, [315];
views of unreliable doctors, [315];
does not destroy virility, [315]
Cousins, marriage of, [438]
CREATIVE LIFE, nature and value of, [189];
how to direct and conserve, [238]
Criminal, a born, [461]
Curiosity, how to satisfy morbid, [122]
D
DANCE, why attractive, [232];
secret of hold on society, [233];
a menace of society, [233];
other objections, [235];
right information needed regarding, [235]
Dancing, in itself not sinful, [232]
Dance halls and picture shows, [573]
Daughter, be companion to, [126]
DEGENERACY, is there a remedy, [410];
indications of constitutional, [435];
two causes of, [476]
DEGENERATES, what shall be done with, [475];
many are diseased, [476];
companion to, [435]
Diet, [288]
DIVORCE, problem of, [468];
an Arkansas woman, [520];
on increase, [522];
not cause of wrecked homes, [524]
Diseases, genito urinary, [548]
DRUNKARDS, [436];
home, [482]
E
Edwards, Jonathan, family of, [399]
EMBRYO, relation between mother and, [261];
maternal attention, [262]
ENERGY, the creative, [135];
a chance to conserve, [546]
ENGAGEMENTS, long, [243];
of young men, [334]
ENVIRONMENT, good, greatest blessing, [407];
as potential as heredity, [515];
value of early, [515]
Ethics of engaged young women, [242]
EUNUCHS, [193];
sex energy of, [219]
EXERCISE, the elixir of youth, [286];
in open air, [287]
F
Family, an ideal, [432]
FAMILY TROUBLES, how solved, [22];
relation too, children, [26]
FATHER, how one failed in sex instructions, [70];
son’s natural teacher, [166];
looks after son’s education, [167];
who holds to unethical ideals, [168];
the model, [168];
should not be suspicious but watchful, [172];
transmit to sons more than to daughters, [491]
Fathers, iniquities visited on children, [401]
Fatherhood, the importance of, [166]
FEEBLE MINDED, marriage of, [479];
burden of, [506]
FEMALE ORGANS, information concerning, [136];
advice concerning, [137]
FISH, story of baby, [100];
why lay so many eggs, [101];
all are orphans, [102];
do not pair off, [102]
Friendship and love, [333]
G
Germ cell, the, [413]
GIRL and BOY, similar information needed, [122];
social nature, [157];
should play together, [157]
GIRL, and her father, [41];
and her mother, [41];
and her brother, [42];
first and most valuable training, [44];
the independent, [45], [519];
wise instruction needed, [124];
a confidential talk, [126];
have been little all these years, [130];
an interesting change, [138];
new social desires, [143];
why want a chum, [143];
needs two chums, [144];
choosing the right chum, [144];
the wise, [145];
boy struck, [159];
vanity of, [162];
in period of transition, [226];
should consult mother, [247];
if driven from home, [249];
wronged, a real living incident, [250];
blinded by double standard, [254];
was she scarlet or white, [255];
maternal instinct of, [264];
the independent, [264];
the modern, [518]
GIRLHOOD, [237];
comes but once, [161]
GIRLS, sixty thousand lost annually, [80];
should be treated as your sister, [213];
association with young men, [237];
should demand single standard of morals, [239];
why they go wrong, [245];
homes for unfortunate, [248]
GONORRHEA, [324];
discovery of disease germs of, [324]
Gonorrheal rheumatism, [325]
H
Heart trouble caused by excess, [548]
Heaven, ante room to, [33]
HEREDITY, versus environment, [396];
applied by the Romans, [396];
Plato’s views, [397];
genius is, [398];
Max Jukes, [399];
Jonathan Edwards, [399];
the potency of, [400];
and Bible, [400];
a modern proof, [405], [406];
who is responsible, [406];
morbid and bad environment, [406];
relation of three agencies, [410];
race can be improved by, [411];
an objection answered, [420];
materialistic theory fails, [421];
explained, [423];
who is to blame, [425];
mothers advantage of, [428];
right of child good, [445];
and moral tendencies, [514];
agencies of improvement, [512];
received at birth, [512];
parental responsibility, [514];
environment and Christ, [516];
a critic answered, [386];
in plant life, [391]
Hereditary, degeneracy, kinds of, [164]
HOME, the childless, [21];
childless made happy, [21];
father head of, [24];
a good substitute for, [30];
should come first, [33];
unit of government, [47];
function of, [51];
punishment in, [57];
threatened, [471];
a drunkard’s, [482]
Home and school defects in, [51]
Homeliness, how to correct some kinds of, [164]
Homicide and suicide, [482]
House keeper, a good, [31]
HUSBAND, relation to wife, [24];
to furnish financial support, [25];
to furnish moral support, [26];
to love wife, [26];
considerate young, [335]
HUSBAND and WIFE, equal partners, [29];
how they differ, [29]
I
Ignorance, a degrading form of, [543]
Illegitimate father, danger of becoming, [321]
Imbecile, Spitzka’s view, [477]
Imbecile question, solution of, [477]
Immoral women dangerous, [323]
Immorality, who is to blame, [80]
IMPREGNATION, [258];
symptoms of, [263]
Imperfection of plants and animals, [195]
Impure thinking, effects of, [207]
Impure thoughts, what produces, [223]
INCONTINENCE, two forms of, [313];
a false idea about, [313];
effects of, on marriage, [317]
Influence, the law of, [51]
Inheritance, our mental possibilities, [513]
Intemperance and crime, [484]
J
Jukes Max, family of, [399]
K
Knight, the true young, [211]
Knighthood, will you enlist in new, [216]
L
Lasciviousness, transmissible, [462]
Letter writing, of young women, [241]
LIFE, why we do not talk about, [90];
how a mother told story to boy of, [111];
a vine robbed of, [196];
begins with a cell, [259];
the creative, [309];
how to build creative, [310];
creative, built into greater mind, [311];
creative built into social and moral, [312];
is real, [413];
is a unit, [421];
planning for ideal, [445];
important periods of, [540];
a large, [545];
the latter half of, [539]
LOVE, and friendship, [333];
tested, [443];
tests of truth, [16]
M
MAN, if you would be perfect, [194];
original development under two agencies, [407];
his fall, [407];
need of third agency, [408];
relation to the past, [416];
change of life not unfortunate, [544]
MANHOOD, if venerealized consult a Dr., [343];
money and pleasure, [395];
agencies necessary to perfect, [409]
MANHOOD, regained, [338];
pathological condition, [341];
hinderances and helps, [341];
facts to be understood, [342]
MANHOOD, wrecked, the diagnosis, [339];
causes of wrong thinking, [340]
MARRIAGE, basis incentives for, [15];
other incentive for, [16];
means motherhood, [30];
sometimes a farce, [30];
hasty, [243];
civil and divine institution, [525];
of old men, [546];
promises by white slavers, [577];
effects of immature, [437];
difference as to age in, [437];
into criminal families, [437];
wealth should have no influence, [438];
of cousins, [438];
basis of, [443];
primal purpose of, [453], [531];
new laws needed, [470];
laws, how enforced, [471];
effects of bad customs, [471];
effects of feeble minded, [479];
desired qualification of, [480];
anxiety of girl’s parents for, [519], [520];
customs have changed, [518];
lax laws in this country, [521];
better customs and laws needed, [521]
Married people should understand sexology, [464]
MASCULINE and feminine principles, [414];
women and feminine men, [438]
MATERNITY, not an affliction, [531];
why regarded as, [533]
Men and boys sap their life, [198]
MEN, many defective, [196];
young, many indiscreet or immoral, [239];
few perfect, [337];
wrecked minds of, [338];
kept from Christ, [338]
Medicine, [52]
MENSTRUATION, [139];
how made regular and painless, [140];
physical, mental and moral changes, [140];
meaning of, [141];
function of, [532]
Mental states, [423]
Mismated, [16], [441]
Mind, relation to salivary glands, [221]
MISTAKE, of the past, [67];
the minister, [253]
Modesty—false, [602]
Morals, double standard of, [602]
MOTHER, important advice to, [128];
should be true to child, [249];
larger hereditary influence proven, [428];