The prudishness with which she is brought up leaves her no alternative but to view her passions from the nasty side of human nature.

All healthy thought on the subject is vigorously repressed.

Everything is done to darken her mind and foul her imagination by throwing her back on her own thoughts and a literature with which she is ashamed to own acquaintance.

It is opposed to a girl's best interests to prevent her from having fair and just conceptions about herself and her nature.

Many a fair young girl is irredeemably ruined on the very threshold of life, herself and her family disgraced, from ignorance as much as from vice.