The plurality of wives, a dogma of the Koran
Title
The plurality of wives, a dogma of the Koran
Subject
Prostitution in Algeria
Description
The plurality of wives, a dogma of the Koran; social inferiority, because of the ignorance in which religious law condemns females, confined to a narrow rut of habitual idleness or menial studies; the common ease of divorce, the promiscuous mixing of slaves and legitimate wifes in the sanctuary of the family, all these sad conditions of domestic life could not fail under the hot climate and exciting Algerian sky, to throw it open for the relaxation of morals and prostitution.
The woman from the East, more depraved than lascivious, willingly trades her body: It is also that she is married at the age of 12, sometimes eight or nine, delivered innocent and without
any life experience to the brutality of a master for whom she is at most an instrument of pleasure, the Arab youth inevitably slips on the slope of her training, which is first the satisfaction of bad instincts, then the need to compensate, or overcome, even by wrongdoing, the
shackles that confine her to sequestration, labor and abuse.
The woman from the East, more depraved than lascivious, willingly trades her body: It is also that she is married at the age of 12, sometimes eight or nine, delivered innocent and without
any life experience to the brutality of a master for whom she is at most an instrument of pleasure, the Arab youth inevitably slips on the slope of her training, which is first the satisfaction of bad instincts, then the need to compensate, or overcome, even by wrongdoing, the
shackles that confine her to sequestration, labor and abuse.
Creator
A. Bertherand
Source
On Prostitution in the City of Paris, Paragraphs 1 and 2, p. 536
Date
1857
Format
.jpg of .pdf
Language
French
Files
Citation
A. Bertherand, “The plurality of wives, a dogma of the Koran,” A la Recherche des Femmes Perdues, accessed April 20, 2024, https://onprostitution.oberlincollegelibrary.org/items/show/104.