ABSTRACT
The grotesque incongruity which assigns the appellation of “morality” to sexual restrictions exclusively, ignoring as appertaining to a lower plane of ethical obligations, justice, intellectual and social honesty, charity, and every moral demand on the conduct of human beings in their social relations, is grossly immoral. Profoundly immoral tradition is mainly responsible for the chaos of uncertainty attendant upon the decay of the authority of sexual tabus. The relations between the sexes are, like all other human social relations, subject to moral principles without which social existence would be impossible. Infringements of traditional sexual restrictions, however unreasonable those restrictions may be, are under existing conditions a cause of great injury and suffering. Sex relations, which are founded upon crude economic or commercial considerations, sexual relations which are founded on physical appetence alone may be perfectly just and honest. There is as a rule no more just and honest dealing in sex relations than that of the prostitute.
