Winfield Scott Hall

From Youth into Manhood Winfield Scott Hall

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...of the sensuous men who visit them. In the Bible these women are called "harlots." That such acts against the laws of the State, of society and of nature should be followed by a severe retribution is very natural. It is a fact well established by the statistics of specialists, that all lewd women are diseased some of the time, while some lewd women are diseased all of the time. What is true of the lewd women of the "bad houses" in our cities is true also of the lewd and free-living girls of the neighborhood. Even many country neighborhoods have one or two girls who are wilfully degenerate and unclean in their lives, or who have been subjected to some unfortunate conditions, early in their lives, that have robbed them of their purity. Such girls are a menace not only to the morals but also to the health of the community. Sooner or later, usually very early in her career, some fellow will give the girl a dose of gonorrhoea or clap. She is almost certain to misunderstand her condition and to take no effective means for getting rid of this contagious disease so she transmits it to every boy or man in the neighborhood who has sexual intercourse with her. Many young men have confessed to me that they had caught this terrible disease on the first illicit intercourse. Specialists in this field of medical practice tell us that the lewd girls of the neighborhood are even more dangerous companions in illicit intercourse than are the professional prostitutes of the houses of ill-fame in the larger cities, dangerous as the prostitutes are. Every young man who knows that this social condition exists at all, ought also to know that any physical contact whatsoever with a lewd woman or girl, whether such woman or girl is an inmate of a bad house or living at home...