Thoughts on the plan for a Magdalen-House for repentant prostitutes / [Anon].

  • Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786
Date:
1758
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Thoughts on the plan for a Magdalen-House for repentant prostitutes / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION III. The temptations to which young women are expofed. The infamous conduct of many debauchees. Complaints of women with regard to the laws of honor. ■ Vanity, and the love of admiration, great enemies to chafity. Opinion of the want of principles in women, injurious. The cruel treatment of proftitutes. The dangerous confequences of feducers, particularly in the cha¬ racter of bawds. - • • • . , »• . TH E deeper we examine this fubjeCt, the more we (hall fee how tru¬ ly humane, and practically confident, your defign is. Of the whole race of Adam, there are furely none who (land in greater need of abidance, than thefe unhappy women. Can there be greater ob¬ jects of commiferation, than thofe thoughtlefs girls, who are hurried into ruin by temptations, to which they have been expofed, againd their inten¬ tions \ and experience, as well as charity y bids us think there are many, un¬ der thefe circumdances. No woman, being young or handfome, can be too fecure; but youth and beauty are things, which we mud not expeCt the pOflMTorsWill conceal. The imprefiions of religion and modedy go a great way, but if thefe young women are not guarded by others, how ill qualified do too many of them prove in guarding themfelvesy efpecially when they are furrounded by fnares, the mod artfully, the mod indudrioufly laid, by thofe who make a trade of warring againd them. —— When women of education, who are fuppofed to be the guardians of their own honor, tref- pafs,,