W. T. Stead’s campaign against child prostitution in the Pall Mall Gazette in the 1880s, which led in 1885 to the raising of the age of consent to 16, provoked Dodgson into a passionate response: he wanted Stead to be prosecuted for obscene libel for the graphic way in which he presented his findings.
Is this insidious or (in the same vein as Goldwaite's remarks) adherence to a Victorian/Christian propierty?
