of the modern world, prostitution, using that term in its broadest sense to
cover all forced sexual relationships based, not on the spontaneous
affection of the woman for the man, but on the necessitous acceptance by
woman of material good in exchange for the exercise of her sexual
functions, would be extinct; and the relation between men and women become
a co-partnership between freemen.

So far from the economic freedom and social independence of the woman
exterminating sexual love between man and woman, it would for the first
time fully enfranchise it. The element of physical force and capture which
dominated the most primitive sex relations, the more degrading element of
seduction and purchase by means of wealth or material good offered to woman
in our modern societies, would then give place to the untrammelled action
of attraction and affection alone between the sexes, and sexual love, after
its long pilgrimage in the deserts, would be enabled to return at last, a
king crowned.

But, apart from the two classes of persons whose objection to the entrance
of woman to new fields of labour is based more or less instinctively on the
fear of personal loss, there is undoubtedly a small, if a very small,
number of sincere persons whose fear as to severance between the sexes to
result from woman's entrance into the new field, is based upon a more
abstract and impersonal ground.

It is not easy to do full justice in an exact statement to views held
generally rather nebulously and vaguely, but we believe we should not
mistake this view, by saying that there are a certain class of perfectly
sincere and even moderately intelligent folk who hold a view which,
expressed exactly, would come to something like this--that the entrance of
woman into new fields would necessitate so large a mental culture and such