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Social workers become increasingly focused on "sexual purity" for young women.

Date: 1925

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Kennedy (2008) writes: "Social workers scientifically assessed adolescent women via mental testing for feeblemindedness, arranged physical examinations to ascertain evidence of immorality, and then recommended segregation and institutionalization on the basis of their expert diagnoses: 'Together, ruptured hymens and low IQs signaled a potential community menace.'"