Excerpt from Social Hygiene, Vol. 1
Important surveys have already been made in this field; but much work remains to be done.
Next, the Association should study the various sorts of police action against vice, and the various statutes intended to regulate vicious resorts, to confine them within fixed limits, or to make less public and open the allurements to vice. It is now clearly known that all the preceding police attempts to regulate vice, to prevent the spread of the venereal diseases, and to diminish immorality have completely failed alike in the East and the West, in Europe and in the Americas. To exhibit and to publish this record of the total failure of well-meant police measures must be one of the first labors of the new Association.
A third important object of the Association is to devise and advocate effective police procedure and effective legislation with regard to vice. In some American communities improved laws, courts, or police administration have already been secured. The Association should try to make the best experience of any state, city, or town available, as lesson or example, to all other cities or towns; but this is an operation involving steady watchfulness and labor, and heavy expenditure.
Part of the work of the Association should be contributory to the work of other organizations - such as those that advocate the suppression of disorderly houses and disreputable hotels, the gratuitous treatment of venereal diseases at public expense to prevent or diminish contagion, the substitution of weak alcoholic drinks for strong, the promotion of total abstinence, and the provision of wholesome pleasures, both out-of-doors and indoors. The Association should always be ready to take part in the prosecution of men or women who make a profit out of obscene publications, indecent shows, immoral plays, and prostitution.
The Association ought to advocate actively the common use of the recognized safeguards against sexual perversions - such as bodily exercises, moderation in eating, abstinence in youth from alcohol, tobacco, hot spices, and all other drugs which impair self-control, even momentarily.
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