igo TABOO AND GENETICS 



girl to the life of a lady with its leisure, its fine 

 clothes, and its excitement. So long as we 

 have a sex ethics into which are incorporated 

 the taboo concepts, the lady cannot exist without 

 the prostitute. The restrictions which surround 

 the lady guard her from the passions of men. 

 The prostitute has been developed to satisfy 

 masculine needs which it is not permitted the 

 lady to know exist. 



But in addition to the married woman who 

 has fulfilled the destiny for which she has been 

 prepared and the prostitute who is regarded as 

 a social leper, there is a large and increasing 

 number of unmarried women who fall into 

 neither of these classes. For a long time these 

 unfortunates were forced to take refuge in the 

 homes of their luckier sisters who had fulfilled 

 their mission in life by marrying, or to adopt 

 the fife of the reUgieuse. Economic changes 

 have brought an alteration in their status, 

 however, and the work of the unattached woman 

 is bringing her a respect in the modern industrial 

 world that the " old maid " of the past could 

 never hope to receive. 



Although at first often looked upon askance, 

 the working woman by the sheer force of her 

 labours has finally won for herself a recognized 

 place in society. This was the first influence 

 that worked against the old taboos, and made 

 possible the tentative gropings toward a new 



