Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / by Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Courtezans of England. 20 ' beyond denial, that the heart your own yearns to is really and truly yours. The love which you find in France is the love made for society—not for solitude : it is that love which befits the dazzling salon, the satined boudoir ; it is that love which mixes with intrigue, with action, with politics, and affairs ; it is that love which pleases, and never absorbs ; which builds no fairy palace of its own. but which scatters over the trodden paths of life more I flowers than a severer people find there.” Of courtezans in England, Colquhoun says that “ In point of extent they certainly exceed credibility ; but although there are many exceptions, the great mass (what- cvei their exterior may be) are mostly composed of women , ^< who have been in a state of menial servitude, and of whom not a few, from the love of idleness and dress, with the misfortune of good looks, have, partly from inclination, not seldom from previous seduction and loss of character, resorted to prostitution as a livelihood. brom the multitudes of these unhappy females that assemble in all parts of the town, it is that the morals of our youth are corrupted. These lines foi the seduction of youtn passing along the stieets in the course of their ordinary business, might be prevented by a police applicable to this object, without either infringing upon the feelings of humanity, or insulting distress ; and still more is it practicable to remove the noxious irregularities which are occasioned by the in- discreet conduct, and the shocking behaviour of women of the town and their still more blamable paramours, in openly insulting public morals, and rendering the situation