(Wu Wu, June seventh day), July 14, 1918, Hu Shi author to talk about chastity problems.


a married husband woman will keep chastity chastity "quadword In July 1918, Mr. Hu Shi published in the first number of the" New Youth "Volume V the article "Chastity" of recent newspapers published articles praise chastity paragons sati suicide tongue-lashing criticized.
he said, the Chinese men to their wives' chastity a feast for them, but openly prostitutes openly concubinage. Openly hanging arm ". I am not saying that because men prostitutes, women will be the steal remarry the woman in the community social status; men to remarry, polygamy man, but one without losing their identity, this is not the most unequal? Han; does not mean that, because the classic concubine, his wife the aunt Classic. I said, men to prostitutes, and the woman is having an affair with another man, the guilty are equally evil; classic concubinage to steal the man and his wife, is equally committed evil.
He added that virginity problem for the Chinese people, I have three comments:
first, this problem is not the "right and proper", is a thorough study.
second, I thought that chastity is the the moral interaction by both men and women, not biased towards the woman on the one hand. Thus, (1) man for a woman, a husband for his wife, should be the attitude of chastity. (2) Men's prostitutes concubines community should treat unchaste women's attitudes to treat him. (3) women's chastity husband dishonored responsibility, and (4) social law concubinage neither recognized with prostitution as immoral, we should not praise a woman's chastity chastity.
third, I am absolutely against the law to extol virginity. My reasons are: (1) sincere virginity is fully automatic morality, can not be external interference, and not allowed to have a legal advocate. (2) to promote chastity law praise, is bound to cause many fish for fame, dishonest, unconscious virginity move. (3) in a modern society, the widow remarriage, virgin chastity issues such wrongs, there is room for discussion, and appraise the rule of law improperly formulated arbitrary manner. (4) The law neither reward a man's virginity without punishing the man's not chastity, they should not promote women's chastity alone. (5) Modern humanitarian vision, praise Liefu paragons kill itself sati, are barbaric and cruel laws, such laws have no place in today. (Lsjt.org)