Sexual problems of today / by William J. Robinson.
- Robinson, William J. (William Josephus), 1867-1936.
- Date:
- 1922,]©1919
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sexual problems of today / by William J. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![women of forty with ten, fifteen and even seventeen or eighteen pregnancies to their credit are not so very rare. I know of a large number of them, and their pitiful tales, with prayers to help and save them from further misery, are a regular feature of my daily mail. [Unfortunately, on account of our Draconian laws, they must all go unanswered.] And this is the first count in my indictment. My first charge of brutality or inhumanity is against the man, who thinks that a woman is merely a breeding animal, who keeps on im¬ pregnating her every year or two, so that with gestation, childbed, and lactation, she has no time to live, no time to breathe, becomes pre¬ maturely old, and within a few years after mar¬ riage becomes a household drudge, incapable and unwilling to engage in any social or intel¬ lectual work, losing every trace of any ideal that she may ever have possessed. Only too true is the tragic statement that many a woman “ carries within her the corpse of the woman she might have been.” More than that, my charge assumes a much more serious aspect, when I tell you that this kind of man will not refrain from impregnat¬ ing his wife even when he knows that preg¬ nancy will almost certainly sound her death- knell. We physicians all know of instances when the husband of a wife who was suffering](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29816701_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
