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THE INTERESTS OF POSTERITY
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being placed in special asylums devoted to their moral
uplifting. At the same time men who take advantage of
prostitutes should also undergo punishment. It is
necessary to go to the root cause of the matter and eradicate the
source of the evil itself. In many occupations where women
are employed the salary paid to them is not a living wage,
and in order tc supply themselves with the bare necessities
of life a woman is forced to walk the streets. Again, so very
many girls have never had a fair chance of matrimony,
and having lost all hope of attaining that end, throw
themselves away with the avowed intention of obtaining at
least the phantom of the pretence of the pleasures of wedded
life. It should be the duty of public authorities to inquire
into the lives of honest girls and to afford them financial
assistance in getting introductions which might lead to
matrimony.
The realisation of public purity lies in the destruction of
the great avenues of licence leading systematically to
immorality.
Every man is endowed with a necessary amount of
sensuality which is a vital function of his being. This fact
should be taken into consideration in order to place in true
perspective all public performances which are, to a more
or less degree, suggestive and counted to play upon a man’s
passions. If women are allowed, as is the case in so many
pantomimes and variety halls, to make an exhibition of
their forms with the express intention of exciting the
sensuality of the audience, it is, after all, not astonishing that
excesses—which would not otherwise occur—are committed
after visiting such places of amusement.
The stage must be cleansed and purified from all
performances of a suggestive character. It is not too much to put
forth these demands as a sine qua non of the necessity of
promoting eugenics if the increasing of the population be
considered of paramount importance.
There are women who shrink so greatly from the risk of
child-bearing and the anguish it entails that they prefer
to remain childless. Such a reason for the diminishing
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