• Louis Mercier:
  • Tours of public treatment facilities were encouraged for children to show what happens to those unable to control lacivious passions.
• Quetel:
  • "From at least the 16th century, the tendency was to avoid giving advice regarding individual prophylaxis on the grounds that it was not wise to encourage sexual excesses by guaranteeing those who performed them impunity [sic] from venereal disease."

Copyright 1999 by the University of Florida