Author: American Social Hygiene Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-20

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781334657702

Excerpt from Social Hygiene Legislation Manual, 1921 At a meeting of the General Medical Board of the Council of National Defense, May '7, 1917, sexual continence was declared compatible with health and the best prevention of venereal infec tions. The American Medical Association at its meeting shortly after adopted a resolution embodying the same statement. The army and navy have adopted this principle as the basis of their program fon the prevention of venereal diseases and the attaining of the highest physical, mental, and moral development of the men. Since science has demonstrated that there is no such difference in the physiology of men and women as to justify a difference in their moral conduct and obligations, and since the war has cleared away much of the mist of ignorance and hypocrisy concerning sex necessity, the laws against prostitution should be made to apply to men as well as to women. Then law enforcement will be less diffi cult because backed by a fair-minded public opinion. Not until 1919, when a standard form of law on this was prepared and presented to the legislatures of the several states by the federal government, was prostitution, with few exceptions, an offense of which a man could be guilty. Now, under this law, a man who has intercourse with a prostitute can be punished as well as the prostitute herself. Eleven states have followed the recommen dations of the government and have remodeled their prostitution laws according to this standard form.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.