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MORAL CONSIDERATIONS 
Fair play is a virtue we value highly. We despise the 
sneak who tries to get from others what he is not willing 
to give in return. Only a low-down fellow would come 
smirched and tarnished to a bride whom he requires to be 
pure and true. From the time a person is able to understand 
the meaning of marriage, he should cherish his purity for 
the one who may in future years join him in wedlock. Main¬ 
taining the same ideal of purity for men as for women is what 
we mean by “ the single moral standard,” in contrast to “ the 
double standard,” which holds girls strictly to chaste con¬ 
duct while allowing boys to lapse therefrom. Earnest 
people in America are determined to maintain the single 
standard. 
1. In what way is mankind’s sex instinct different from that of 
animals ? 
2. This makes necessary what different control of mankind’s 
actions ? 
3. What does monogamy mean? 
4. To what sex ideal should boys and girls be loyal? 
5. Explain what is meant by the single moral standard? the 
double standard? 
6. What can you do to help maintain the single standard? 
Dragging Others Down. — If a boy (or a girl) should be so 
reckless as not to care for the sanctity of his own person, let 
him remember that the stain of vice is not on himself alone. 
He always drags another into the mire with him. How can 
one be so blind to the welfare of his fellows as willfully to ruin 
the life of a companion? The normal and proper function 
of the sex organs is the production of a child. To indulge 
the sex function in spite of this almost certain result is not 
only to wrong oneself and one’s partner in vice, but also to fix 
the disgrace of illegitimate birth on an innocent child. The 
relation of parenthood, which under proper conditions brings 
great joy, becomes to transgressors a blight on the lives of 
those it should bless. 
