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With a woman it is quite different. If she is normally developed mentally, and well bred, her sexual desire is small. If this were not so the whole world would become a brothel and marriage and family impossible.
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― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
― Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
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South Carolina had thirteen lynchings last year, ten were charged with assault on white women, one with horse stealing and two with being impudent to white women.
The first of the ten charged with rape, named John Peterson, was declared by the white woman in the case to be the wrong man, but the mob said a crime had been committed and somebody had to hang for it. So John Peterson, being the available ‘somebody,’ was hanged. At Columbia, South Carolina, July 30th, a similar charge was made, and
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― Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
― Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells