Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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    ubiquitous than ever, and a persistent conveyer of nature’s destructive agents. Experience has proved over and over again on the Continent, that from the point of view of disease, the licensed courtesan is far less dangerous to the community than the purveyor of clandestine intercourse, who is too respectable to have her ailments treated. The only remedy left is that of scientific prophy- laxis, or prevention of disease, without any legisla- tion or committees whatever ; and this is probably the only true solution of the danger, and the one that holds out the most promise for saving the women and children from the sad effects of the policy of laisser faire and counsels of perfection. It may be urged that prevention will open the floodgates of immorality ; but this argument is like the dogmas of the total abstainer, who says that all alcohol should be prohibited, as people cannot resist the temptation of it, whereas many people do not take it at all, and only the few are drunkards. The fear and neglect of venereal disease in the past did not make our army and navy more moral than those of foreign countries, who adopted measures for the protection of their men, and it has led to our men being five times more diseased than the Germans, for instance. It is time that the sane