at the normal manifestations of
sexual feeling are much more common in British than in
continental prostitutes. "I should say," he writes, "that in
normal coitus foreign women are generally unconscious of sexual
excitement. I don't think I have ever known a foreign woman who
had any semblance of orgasm. British women, on the other hand, if
a man is moderately kind, and shows that he has some feelings
beyond mere sensual gratification, often abandon themselves to
the wildest delights of sexual excitement. Of course in this
life, as in others, there is keen competition, and a woman, to
vie with her competitors, must please her gentlemen friends; but
a man of the world can always distinguish between real and
simulated passion." (It is possible, however, that he may be most
successful in arousing the feelings of his own fellow-country
women.) On the other hand, this writer finds that the foreign
women are more anxious to provide for the enjoyment of their
temporary consorts and to ascertain what pleases them. "The
foreigner seems to make it the business of her life to discover
some abnormal mode of sexual gratification for her consort." For
their own pleasure also foreign prostitutes frequently ask for
_cunnilinctus_, in preference to normal coitus, while anal coitus
is also common. The difference evidently is that the British
women, when they seek gratification, find it in normal coitus,
while the foreign women prefer more abnormal methods. There is,
however, one class of British prostitutes which this
correspondent finds to be an exception to the general rule: the
class of those who are recruited from the lower walks of the
stage. "Such women are generally more licentious--that is to say,
more acquainted with the bizarre in sexualism--than girls who
come from shops or bars; they show a knowledge of _fellatio_, and
even anal coitus, and during menstruation frequently suggest
inter-mammary coitus."

On the whole it would appear that prostitutes, though not usually impelled
to their life by motives of sensuality, on entering and during the early
part of their career possess a fairly average amount of sexual impulse,
with variations in both directions of excess and deficiency as well as of
perversion. At a somewhat later period it is useless to attempt to measure
the sexual impulse of prostitutes by the