The great scourge and how to end it / by Christabel Pankhurst.

  • Pankhurst, Christabel, Dame, 1880-1958.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The great scourge and how to end it / by Christabel Pankhurst. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To .discuss an evil, and then to run away from it without suggesting how it may be cured, is not the way of Suffragettes, and in the following pages will be found a proposed eure for the great evil in question. That eure, briefly stated, is Votes for Women and Chastity for Men. Quotations and opinions from eminent medieal men are given, and these show that ehastity for men is healthful for themselves and is imperative in the interests of the race. The use of remedies, sueh as mereury and “ 606,” is no substitute for the prevention of sexual disease. Drugs and medical concoc- tions will not wash away the mental and moral injury sustained by the men who practise immorality, nor are they adequate as a eure for the body. The sexual diseases are partieularly intractable to cure, and it is never possible to prove that a eure has been effeeted, so that the disease, while