(' Women are often tempters to sexual sin and delight in it. . . A recent report of a female probation officer relates that some of the girls who, as we may say euphemistically' had gone astray,' owned to her that they enjoyed the life of the evil house.' <br />- The Case Against Woman Suffrage, published by the Man-Suffrage Association Opposed to Political Suffrage for Women.) <br /> <br />IT may be so, good sir, it may be so, <br />Not all who sin are tempted - that we know: <br />It may be darker things than this are true, <br />And yet, upon my soul, if I were you <br />A man, no longer young, at peace, secured <br />From all that tempting women have endured <br />Of poverty and ignorance and fear <br />And joy that make youth terrible and dear, <br />If I were you, before I took my pen <br />And wrote those words to hearten other men, <br />And give them greater sense of moral ease <br />In the long score of common sins like these, <br />If I were you, I would have held my hand <br />In fire. <br />- Ah, well; you would not understand.<br /><br />Alice Duer Miller<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-certain-gentleman/
