Introductory material

Greater publicity of the sexual life in the age of commerce — Three forms of this publicity — Sexual quackery — The relations of quackery to the sexual life — Recent examples — The trade in sexual nostrums and other articles of immoral use — Public puffing of sexual nostrums — Quack advertisements.

Newspaper advertisements for sexual purposes — Matrimonial advertisements — Their history — The two oldest matrimonial advertisements — Mercenary marriages and marriages for position — Nominal marriages — Immoral advertisements — Loan advertisements — Acquaintance advertisements — Friendship advertisements — Employment advertisements — Heterosexual and homosexual advertisements — Advertisements regarding correspondence — Advertisements of rooms for sexual purposes — Advertisements regarding instruction — Rendezvous and postillon d’amour advertisements — Poste restante correspondence — Private inquiries — Advertisements for the purpose of sexual perversions — Street handbills — Brothel guides.

Public scandals of a sexual character — Murders and suicides from love — Seductions, duels, procuress trials — Orgies and the life of swindlers.