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"The Age of Consent," June 1886<br />

have quite well protected themselves in these matters. It may also be<br />

pointed out that the state, by its statutes, deals very gently with<br />

juvenile offenders. Still, if the legislature should think it necessary to<br />

enact a law protecting boys under eighteen from seduction, the<br />

advocates of this movement would doubtless give it their endorsement.<br />

But at present this does not seem of such immediate importance.<br />

When old women of eighty, and married and unmarried women of<br />

middle age, in good society and of fine social standing, go about<br />

ruining boys of ten and twelve and sixteen it will be time to sound the<br />

alarm for boys as we are sounding it for girls.<br />

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A. For a sketch of Higginson, see the biographical sketches included in the editorial<br />

project on male supporters of women's rights, also on this website. For an essay by<br />

Higginson, see document 11 of that project, "Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?"<br />

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