medical men showed that less than one-third were in favor of
maintaining regulation (_Die Neue Generation_, June, 1909, p.
244). In Germany, where there is in some respects more patient
endurance of interference with the liberty of the individual than
in France, England, or America, various elaborate systems for
organizing prostitution and dealing with venereal disease
continue to be maintained, but they cannot be completely carried
out, and it is generally admitted that in any case they could not
accomplish the objects sought. Thus in Saxony no brothels are
officially tolerated, though as a matter of fact they
nevertheless exist. Here, as in many other parts of Germany, most
minute and extensive regulations are framed for the use of
prostitutes. Thus at Leipzig they must not sit on the benches in
public promenades, nor go to picture galleries, or theatres, or
concerts, or restaurants, nor look out of their windows, nor
stare about them in the street, nor smile, nor wink, etc., etc.
In fact, a German prostitute who possesses the heroic
self-control to carry out conscientiously all the self-denying
ordinances officially decreed for her guidance would seem to be
entitled to a Government pension for life.

Two methods of dealing with prostitution prevail in Germany. In
some cities public houses of prostitution are tolerated (though
not licensed); in other cities prostitution is "free," though
"secret." Hamburg is the most important city where houses of
prostitution are tolerated and segregated. But, it is stated,
"everywhere, by far the larger proportion of the prostitutes
belong to the so-called 'secret' class." In Hamburg, alone, are
suspected men, when accused of infecting women, officially
examined; men of every social class must obey a summons of this
kind, which is issued secretly, and if diseased, they are bound
to go under treatment, if necessary under compulsory treatment in
the city hospital, until no longer dangerous to the community.

In Germany it is only when a woman has been repeatedly observed
to act suspiciously in the streets that she is quietly warned; if
the warning is disregarded she is invited to give her name and
address to the police, and interviewed. It is not until these
methods fail that she is officially inscribed as a prostitute.
The inscribed