there is no harm in telling a man who is certainly going to sin how
to avoid the consequences. Ad. 3. If men could be restrained from
vice by prohibiting the sales, this should be done; but so many are
ready to expose themselves to danger that you cannot hope for such
a result from forbidding the sale. It is true this removes _fear_,
but the general good, and the removal of danger to the innocent
justifies this. Besides, it is a poor virtue which is kept from sin
only by the fear of disease."

Having gone so far as to admit the desirability and necessity of the
medical prevention of sexual diseases, the Roman Catholic Church will
certainly find itself later unable to deny the desirability and necessity
of preventing the birth of children liable to be born diseased or unfit.
It is not practicable for a wife to take any suitable precautions against
infection by a diseased husband, which precautions will not at the same
time be effective, to a greater or lesser extent, in the prevention of
conception. There is no half-way house in the matter of sexual hygiene.

ETTIE A. ROUT.




I.--INTRODUCTION.


At present marriage is easily the most dangerous of all our social
institutions. This is partly due to the colossal ignorance of the public
in regard to sex, and partly due to the fact that marriage is mainly
controlled by lawyers and priests instead of by women and doctors. The