This delicate 1939 film explains the evils of sex and syphilis. Syphilis is an expensive wild ride beginning with Carnal knowledge and adult pleasure and ending in blindness and insanity.Lessons learned from this educational film include: victims may or may not be innocent, beware of quack doctors who will promise a cure just to get your green backs and NEVER leave your small, rural home for New York.New York City is the hub of sin and social diseases. Stories from the burlesque show solidify this fact—and visitors to New York often contract syphilis and bring the shameful disease back home.Absolutely delightful! I am making sure that ALL my friends and family watch this movie—with a follow up reading from a 1940’s syphilis medical text.This film is rated 4 stars instead of 5 because it is still playing 2nd fiddle to REFFER MADNESS.