ABSTRACT

The dualism of woman in her first experiences of sexual life is no less dangerous to men. The reluctance and dual-mindedness of the majority of girls in their first experience of the intimacies of love are the outcome of serious motives, some of which will not easily be eradicated from human nature, while others are altogether ineradicable. In England, when there had been a number of sexual assaults on women in railway trains, an English judge laconically remarked that in his opinion men travelling on the railways were in greater danger from women's attempts at blackmail than were women from men's attempts at rape. The accusation breaks down for the former reason when medical examination shows beyond dispute that the girl who brings the charge of rape is still an intact virgin. This happens more frequently than the imagine who are unacquainted with this department of medical jurisprudence.