SEXUAL IMMORALITY • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Sexual immorality

... source contributes so much to sexual immorality as obscene literature. The mass of stories published in the great weeklies and the cheap novels are mischievous. When the devil determines to take charge of a young soul, he often employs a very ingenious method. He slyly hands ...

— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... marry between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five; the young women between twenty and thirty. Such postponement is due to the difficulty of earning sufficient to rear and support a family; and it undoubtedly leads, in the country districts, to sexual immorality. The form of this immorality, however, is very seldom that of prostitution, and less frequently that of illegitimacy than one would imagine. Rather, it takes the form of separation and desertion after a family ...

— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois