sician in relation to the question of advising sexual
intercourse outside marriage (e.g., in his comprehensive work,
_Aerztliche Ethik_, 1902; also _Zeitschrift fuer Aerztliche
Fortbildung_, 1905, Nos. 12-15; _Mutterschutz_, 1905, Heft 3;
_Geschlecht und Gesellschaft_, vol. ii, Heft 8). At the outset
Moll had been disposed to assert the right of the physician to
recommend sexual intercourse under some circumstances; "so long
as marriage is unduly delayed and sexual intercourse outside
marriage exists," he wrote (_Die Contraere Sexualempfindung_,
second edition, p. 287), "so long, I think, we may use such
intercourse therapeutically, provided that the rights of no third
person (husband or wife) are injured." In all his later writings,
however, Moll ranges himself clearly and decisively on the
opposite side. He considers that the physician has no right to
overlook the possible results of his advice in inflicting
venereal disease, or, in the case of a woman, pregnancy, on his
patient, and he believes that these serious results are far more
likely to happen than is always admitted by those who defend the
legitimacy of such advice. Nor will Moll admit that the physician
is entitled to overlook the moral aspects of the question. A
physician may know that a poor man could obtain many things good
for his health by stealing, but he cannot advise him to steal.
Moll takes the case of a Catholic priest who is suffering from
neurasthenia due to sexual abstinence. Even although the
physician feels certain that the priest may be able to avoid all
the risks of disease as well as of publicity, he is not entitled
to urge him to sexual intercourse. He has to remember that in
thus causing a priest to break his vows of chastity he may induce
a mental conflict and a bitter remorse which may lead to the
worst results, even on his patient's physical health. Similar
results, Moll remarks, may follow such advice when given to a
married man or woman, to say nothing of possible divorce
proceedings and accompanying evils.

Rohleder (_Vorlesungen ueber Geschlechtstrieb und Gesamtes
Geschlechtsleben der Menschen_) adopts a somewhat qualified
attitude in this matter. As a general rule he is decidedly
against recommending sexual intercourse outside marriage to those
who are suffering from partial or tempor