ABSTRACT
The law recognises rigid norms only, and closes its eyes to all intermediate stages. In the matter of sexual relationships, two groups of women only are known to law—regulated prostitutes and respectable women. Sexual Morality is precisely the moral intermediate stages — and the physical intermediate stages, for exist as well — which claim our keenest interest and attention. The porter immediately appears, a respectable bearded man, the guardian of order and morality, to light it again. A glance at the purely ethical aspect of the problem suffices to teach us that the criterion by which we must judge of moral degrees in sexual love must be sought elsewhere than in the occupation or in the physiological condition of the individual. The members of the school no longer regard fatherhood as a physiological function, but as educative in its scope.
