Harry Clay Sharp

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled

Harry Clay Sharp

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Eugenics doctor that sterilized inmates.

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Harry Clay Sharp Begins Illegal Casteration and Vasectomies on Prisoners 1895 1907

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Holding the common belief of eugenics that anyone in prison is bad Sharp begins in 1899 using vasectomy on inmates (prior to this he was castrating them). This was an illegal practice prior to 1907 when Indiana became the first state to pass a law of compulsory sterilization.

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Render every male sterile who passes its portals, whether it be an almshouse, insane asylum, institute for the feeble minded, reformatory or prison.

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At first, in art, the sex organs were represented by pictures of them, but as man developed and ideas of morals changes, such representations seemed offensive or crude, and they were therefore gradually modified until the symbols could scarcely be recognized as sexual in origin. Other explanations and meanings where invented for the masses, who were no supposed to understand the true meanings. Thus, symbols came to have two meanings, the esoteric and the exoteric.
-Charles Berger