Note 34 — IV.—MALE PROSTITUTION, AND PARTICULARLY THAT OF THE STUDENT, THE OFFICIAL, AND THE SOLDIER.

A young debauchee used to get women into a house for base purposes. After debauching his victims he deserted them in the darkness of night in the middle of winter, among the intricacies of a house unknown to them. When, half dead from cold, they dragged themselves in the morning to the doorstep to complain of this barbarity, the young man, questioned by the porter, feigned surprise. At other times, he made sport, impudently, of recriminations he knew to be unable to reach him, and commonly boasted of the privileges of irresponsibility which convert marriage into a profession of trickery. This guardian of our social morality was decorated, in 1848, for having, in the June days, fought in defence of public tranquillity.