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Title: Women As Sex Vendors
or, Why Women Are Conservative (Being a View of the Economic
Status of Woman)

Author: R. B. Tobias
Mary E. Marcy

Release Date: February 11, 2009 [EBook #28050]

Language: English

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WOMEN AS SEX VENDORS

OR

WHY WOMEN ARE CONSERVATIVE

(Being a View of the Economic Status of Woman)

By

R. B. TOBIAS and MARY E. MARCY

CHICAGO

CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY

CO-OPERATIVE

Copyright 1918

By CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE
WHY WOMEN ARE CONSERVATIVE 9
YOUTH AND MAID 30
THE EVOLUTION OF THE FAMILY 40
THE FUTURE 54

WOMEN AS SEX VENDORS

WHY WOMEN ARE CONSERVATIVE

We have often heard discussions of the reason we do not find women, as a
sex, in the vanguard of world affairs; why the great educators, strong
figures in progressive or revolutionary movements, are men rather than
women; why these movements, themselves, are made up almost entirely of
men rather than women. People have asked over and over again why, in the
fields of the arts, the sciences, in the world of "practical affairs,"
men, rather than women, generally excel.

We believe the answer lies in the fact that women, as a sex, are the
owners of a commodity vitally necessary to the health and well-being of
man. Women occupy a more fortunate biologic, and in many countries, a
more fortunate economic position, in the increasingly intensified
struggle for existence. And the preferred class, the biologically and
economically favored class, or sex, has rarely been efficient-to-do, has
never been revolutionary to attack a social s