The Crime Of Promiscuity Analysis

Steven Schlossman, a social and policy historian, had written, along with colleague Stephanie Wallach, an education and gender historian, a comprehensive look into the juvenile system and its relationship with women in the publication of “The Crime of Precocious Sexuality.” Scholassman and Wallach had noted that the turn of the 20th century had brought along not only the rapid industrialization of the country, but also a sharp change in the sexual customs and ideologies held by young women. This, they explain, alarmed the middle-class, white (natively born) people who claimed themselves as Progressives. In response to this upsurge in promiscuity, Progressives had created a number of paternalistic reforms that were aimed at curving, according