p. The
inoculated feeling of shame still remains even after we have recognized
that shame in this connection is false."

[188] The method of imparting a knowledge of sexual hygiene (especially in
relation to venereal diseases) at the outset of adult life has most
actively been carried out in Germany and the United States. In Germany
lectures by doctors to students and others on these matters are
frequently given. In the United States information and advice are spread
abroad chiefly by the aid of societies. The American Society of Sanitary
and Moral Prophylaxis, with which the name of Dr. Morrow is specially
connected, was organized in 1905. The Chicago Society of Social Hygiene
was established in 1906. Since then many other similar societies have
sprung up under medical auspices in various American cities and states.

[189] Many flagrant cases in point are set forth from the legal point of
view by Theodore Schroeder, _"Obscene" Literature and Constitutional
Law_, New York, 1911, chap. IV.

[190] Chamfort, _OEuvres Choisies_, ed. by Lescure, Vol. I, p. 33.

IX

IMMORALITY AND THE LAW

Social Hygiene and Legal Compulsion--The Binding Force of Custom
among Savages--The Dissolving Influence of Civilization--The
Distinction between Immorality and Criminality--Adultery as a
Crime--The Tests of Criminality--National Differences in laying
down the Boundary between Criminal and Immoral
Acts--France--Germany--England--The United States--Police
Administration--Police Methods in the United States--National
Differences in the Regulation of the Trade in Alcohol--Prohibition
in the United States--Origin of the American Method of Dealing with
Immorality--Russia--Historical Fluctuations in Methods of dealing
with Immorality and Prostitution--Homosexuality--Holland--The Age
of Consent--Moral Legislation in England--In the United States--The
Raines Law--American Attempts to Suppress Prostitution--Their
Futility--German Methods of Regulating Prostitution--The Sound
Method of Approaching Immorality--Training in Sexual
Hygiene--Education in Personal and Social Responsibility.

The modern development of Social Hygiene in matters of Eugenics has
already sufficed to show that there are certain people in the community,
anxious to take quick cuts to the millennium, who think that Eugenics
can be promoted by hasty legislation. That method of attempting