al of womanhood which a large proportion of our
large city society accepts, fawns upon, and favors.

12. SHAMEFUL CONDITIONS.--Perhaps one of the most inhuman and shameful
conditions of modern fashionable society, both in England and America, is
that which wealthy men and women who are married destroy their own children
in the embryo stage of being, and become murderers thereby. This is done to
prevent what should be one of our chief glories, viz., large and
well-developed home and family life.

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The Prostitution of Men.

CAUSE AND REMEDY.

1. EXPOSED YOUTH.--Generally even in the beginning of the period when
sexual uneasiness begins to show itself in the boy, he is exposed in
schools, institutes, and elsewhere to the temptations of secret vice, which
is transmitted from youth to youth, like a contagious corruption, and which
in thousands destroys the first germs of virility. Countless numbers of
boys are addicted to these vices for years. That they do not in the
beginning of nascent puberty proceed to sexual intercourse with women, is
generally due to youthful timidity, which dares not reveal its desire, or
from want of experience for finding opportunities. The desire is there, for
the heart is already corrupted.

2. BOYHOOD TIMIDITY OVERCOME.--Too often a common boy's timidity is
overcome by chance or by seduction, which is rarely lacking in great cities
where prostitution is flourishing, and thus numbers of boys immediately
after the transition period of youth, in accordance with the previous
secret practice, accustom themselves to the association with prostitute
women, and there young manhood and morals are soon lost forever.

3. MARRIAGE-BED RESOLUTIONS.--Most men of the educated classes enter the
marriage-bed with the consciousness of leaving behind them a whole army of
prostitutes or seduced women, in whose arms they cooled their passions and
spent the vigor of their youth. But with such a past the married man does
not at the same time leave behind him its influence on his inclinations.
The habit of having a feminine being at his disposal for every rising
appetite, and the desire for change inordinately indulged for years,
generally make themselves felt again as soon as the honeymoon is over.
Marriage will not make a morally corrupt man all at once a good man and a
model husband.

4. THE INJUSTICE OF MAN.--Now, although many men are in a certain sense
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