10.  TEMPLES OF LUST.—­Here stand the foul and splendid temples of lust, intemperance, and passion, into whose vortex tens of thousands of our sons and daughters are constantly being drawn.  Let it be remembered that this whole area represents the most costly conditions, and proves beyond Question that an enormous proportion of the wealthy manhood of the nation, and we as citizens sustain, partake, and share in this carnival of death.  Is it any wonder that the robust type of godly manhood which used to be found in the legislature is sadly wanting now, or that the wretched caricatures of manhood which find form and place in such papers as “Truth” and the “World” are accepted as representing “modern society?”

11.  PURITANIC MANHOOD.—­It is a melancholy fact that, by reason of uncleanness, we have almost lost regard for the type of puritanic manhood which in the past held aloft the standard of a chaste and holy life; such men in this day are spoken of as “too slow” as “weak-kneed,” and “goody-goody” men.  Let me recall that word, the fast and indecently-dressed “things,” the animals of easy virtue, the “respectable” courtesans that flirt, chaff, gamble, and waltz with well-known high-class licentious lepers—­such is the ideal of womanhood which a large proportion of our large city society accepts, fawns upon, and favors.

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12.  SHAMEFUL CONDITIONS.—­Perhaps one of the most inhuman and shameful conditions of modern fashionable society, both in England and America, is that which wealthy men and women who are married destroy their own children in the embryo stage of being, and become murderers thereby.  This is done to prevent what should become one of our chief glories, viz., large and well-developed [Transcriber’s note:  the text appears to read “home” but it is unclear] and family life.

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THE PROSTITUTION OF MEN.

CAUSE AND REMEDY.

1.  EXPOSED YOUTH.—­Generally even in the beginning of the period when sexual uneasiness begins to show itself in the boy, he is exposed in schools, institutes, and elsewhere to the temptations of secret vice, which is transmitted from youth to youth, like a contagious corruption, and which in thousands destroys the first germs of virility.  Countless numbers of boys are addicted to these vices for years.  That they do not in the beginning of nascent puberty proceed to sexual intercourse with women, is generally due to youthful timidity, which dares not reveal its desire, or from want of experience for finding opportunities.  The desire is there, for the heart is already corrupted.

2.  BOYHOOD TIMIDITY OVERCOME.—­Too often a common boy’s timidity is overcome by chance or by seduction, which is rarely lacking in great cities where prostitution is flourishing, and thus numbers of boys immediately after the transition period of youth, in accordance with the previous secret practice, accustom themselves to the association with prostitute women, and there young manhood and morals are soon lost forever.