CHAPTER XXV. GREAT BRITAIN.--PROSTITUTION AT THE PRESENT TIME.

Influence of the Wealthy Classes.--Devices of Procuresses.--

Scene at a Railway Station.--Organization for entrapping

Women.--Seduction of Children.--Continental Traffic.--

Brothel-keepers.--"Fancy Men" and "Spooneys."--Number of

Brothels in London.--Causes of Prostitution.--Sexual

Desire.--Seduction.--Over-crowded Dwellings.--Parental

Example.--Poverty and Destitution.--Public Amusements.--

Ill-assorted Marriages.--Love of Dress.--Juvenile

Prostitution.--Factories.--Obscene Publications.--Census of

1851.--Education and Crime.--Number of Prostitutes.--Female

Population of London.--Working Classes.--Domestic

Servants.--Needlewomen.--Ages of Prostitutes.--Average

Life.--Condition of Women in London.--Charitable

Institutions.--Mrs. Fry's benevolent Labors. 312

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