The legalisation of female slavery in England |
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Abolitionists amusement ANNIE BESANT arrested assert become body bound brutalised brute Butler celibate standing army citizens class compelled compulsion consorting Contagious Diseases Acts crime danger dare daughter degradation deprived despair destroy duty enforcement of celibacy evil FEMALE SLAVERY foot foundation stone France girl government hero-armies heroism home honor houses human idle immoral inalienable right individual liberty injury interference intoxication Italy labor large standing army learn reverence LEGALISATION OF FEMALE Liberty outraged license women love man's marriage ment mental misery modesty national health National morality natural necessary necessity need to learn number open court perpetrated personal liberty perusal physical union physique prosti prostitution protest punishment purity regards remedy remembrance repeal right to demand ruin sacredness Secular party Secularist sentence sexual SLAVERY IN ENGLAND slaves society soldiers spread streets submit surely Switzerland terrible tion touch trampled tution unfortunate women unwise urged vicious nation victims vidual weak wife woman womanhood youth
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Page 3 - ... become, in a generation or two, themselves the greater slaves ; not only the slaves of their own enfeebled and corrupted natures, but of the women whom they have maddened, hardened, and stamped under foot. Bowing down before the unrestrained dictates of their own lusts, they now bow down also before the tortured and fiendish womanhood which they have created. Till now I had never fully realised Nemesis in this form.
Page 4 - that youths, initiated under such oaths as theirs, were fit to be made soldiers? That wretches brought out of the temple of obscenity could be trusted with arms? That those contaminated with the foul debaucheries of these meetings should be the champions for the chastity of the wives and children of the Roman people?" "Let us now closely examine how far the Eleusinian and Bacchanalian feasts resembled the Christian...
Page 3 - ... apparent injury, but, persisted in, destroys as fatally as intoxication. This is no matter of theory, it is simply a matter of observation ; individuals whose lives are irregular, nations where prostitution is widespread, lose stamina, virility, physical development, the whole type becoming degraded. It is urged that " man's physical wants must be satisfied, and therefore prostitution is a necessity".
Page 4 - ... the more and more complete control demanded for the police over the unfortunate women sacrificed to the " necessities of men ", prove, beyond the possibility of denial, that no eradication of disease is to be hoped for unless the registered women be given over thoroughly to continual supervision, and be literally made slaves, equally obedient to the call of the doctor who heals and to that of the man who infects, holding their bodies at the hourly order of each class, with no right of self-possession,...
Page 4 - Pastor Borel testified to having seen schoolboys entering these haunts of patented vice, with their satchels on their backs.
Page 4 - Can ye think that such youths are fit to be made soldiers? That wretches brought out of the temple of obscenity could be trusted with arms? That those contaminated with such debaucheries could be the champions for the chastity of the wives and children of the Roman people?