This latter doctrine, even were it as true as it
is in fact false, would not in any case justify a man in taking
advantage of a woman's ruin: but experience shows that there is no
form of sin or indulgence which so effectually degrades a man's moral
outlook, blunts his finer perceptions, and destroys the instinct of
chivalry within him, as does the sin of fornication. The majority of
those who practise promiscuous sexual intercourse are found to greet
with frank and obviously genuine incredulity the assertion that there
exists a not inconsiderable proportion of men whose lives are clean;
while at the other end of the scale men of pure lives and clean ideals
often find it difficult to believe that more than a small minority of
peculiarly degraded individuals are clients of the women of the
streets.
The publication of the Report of the Royal Commission on Venereal
Diseases, taken in conjunction with what is known or suspected with
regard to the state of morals in the Army, has had the effect of
drawing public attention to certain aspects of these problems.
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