Glimpses of Britain
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at the ballot box, their campaign was driven by a deep-rooted dis-taste for male sexuality. Quite simply, the more extreme suffragettes were man-haters, waging what amounted to a sex war. They regarded men as a low¬er form of life, whose untrammelled sexual appetites were the root of all evil - from physical disease to every kind of moral degeneracy. For these women, winning the vote was merely a means to an end: the reining in of male lust, which they thought w o u l d raise the whole of society to a higher spirit¬ual plane. What is more, they were pre¬pared to adopt virtually any tac¬tics to achieve it - even those we would now call terrorism. The explanation for this sexu¬al fervour lies in the squalid world of Victorian vice, with its huge and highly visible trade in prosti¬tution. In 1841 the Chief Commis-sioner of Police estimated there were 3,325 brothels i n Central London alone. Thirty years later, a French vis-itor to the East End reported that "all the houses, except one or two, are evidently inhabited by har¬lots". A c c o r d i n g to Scotland Yard's director of CID, it was im¬possible for a respectable woman to walk through the West End in mid-afternoon because o f the number of prostitutes openly so¬liciting. Droves of girls were seen hud-dling along Regent Street, Picca-dilly and Haymarket, urinating and defecating in public. For men of such tastes, children were easily procured: the age of consent was just 12. Domestic servants joined the trade at night, desperate to sup¬plement their meagre wages. Shop assistants did the same, with the encouragement o f West End dress-shop managers who hired out clothes to them by way of ad¬vertising. The phenomenon gave rise to endless scandalised discussion. A t first, conventional opinion held that the prostitutes were corrupt¬ing the nation's morals, whereas the men who patronised them were merely satisfying their natural in¬clinations while leaving respecta¬ble women unsullied. Gradually, however, the ...
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