Men are
very seldom chaste when they live in exclusively male communities.
Then, secondly, sweating makes for immorality because it means that
girls are paid wages which are quite insufficient to support life. Some
of them live at home with their parents and so get through, but those
who have to support themselves become subjected to a terribly severe
temptation to add to their starvation wages by the sale of themselves.
It is still in this way that a considerable percentage of the
prostitutes of the country is created, and the number of girls who,
though not known as prostitutes, have sacrificed their purity because
of financial pressure must be very great.
The word sweating also covers cases where workers are subjected to
overwork, and unduly long hours; and therefore under this head I
mention the influence of the strain of long shop hours. The improvement
has been great of late in this respect, but still there are restaurants
and special shops where the strain on girls is very heavy. And the
result is that after work is over they are fit for nothing but walking
about the streets in search of diversion.
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