involved.

The model woman of the past has known very little of the prostitute and
venereal disease. It is often stated that her moral safety has been
maintained at the expense of her fallen and unclean sister. But such
statements are not limited as they should be by the qualification that
her moral safety obtained in such a fashion is often at the expense of
her physical safety. If the assumption has a basis in fact that there is
a relation between prostitution and monogamic marriage, the complexity
of the problem becomes evident. It is further complicated by the
postponement of marriage from economic reasons, hesitation at the
assumption of family responsibilities at a time of life when ambition as
well as passion is strong, when the physiological functions are
stimulated by city life and there is constant opportunity for relief of
repression for a price. It is here that the demarcation between the
man's and the woman's world shows most clearly. It may well be that the
only solution of this problem is through the admission of a new
factor--the "good" woman whom taboo has kept in ignorance of a problem
that is her own. If it be true that the only solution for the double
standard whose evils show most plainly here is a new single standard
which has not yet been found, then it is high time that we find what
that standard is to be, for the sake of the future.

The third dysgenic influence which works under cover of the
institutional taboo is akin to the first in its ancient standards of
"good" and "bad." We are only recently getting any standards for a good
mother except a man's choice and a wedding ring. Men's ideals of
attractiveness greatly complicate the eugenic situation. A good
matchmaker, with social backing and money, can make a moron more
attractive than a pushing, energetic girl with plenty of initiative,
whose contribution to her children would be equal or superior to that of
her mate. A timid, gentle, pretty moron, with the attainment of a girl
of twelve years, will make an excellent match, and bring into the world
children who give us one of the reasons why it is "three generations
from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves." For such a girl, the slave to
convention, exactly fits the feminine ideal which man has built up for
himself. And she will be a good wife and mother in the conventional
sense all her life. This following of an ideal feminine type conceived
in irrational processes in former days inclines men t