Note 231 — Chapter IV · PROSTITUTION AND THE LAW

Bloch, Die Prostitution, Vol. I, loc. cit., p. 3. It is interesting and suggestive to encounter the same attitude in the writings of a police commissioner. Limburg (loc. cit., p. 16), protesting against the view that prostitution is a permanent necessity, writes: “Whoever undertakes to fight vice, either by individual labor or, where the authorities are concerned, by legal or other measures, is by no means entering upon a hopeless cause and, with judicious choice of weapons, has some chances of success.”