g.,
_Ars Am._, Bk. III, 765). Clement of Alexandria, who was
something of a man of science as well as a Christian moralist,
points out the influence of wine in producing lasciviousness and
sexual precocity. (_Paedagogus_, Bk. II, Chapter II). Chaucer
makes the Wife of Bath say in the Wife of Bath's Prologue:--
"And, after wyn, on Venus moste [needs] I thinke:
For al so siken as cold engendreth hayl,
A likerous mouth moste have a likerous tayl,
In womman vinolent is no defense,
This knowen lechours by experience."
Alcohol, as Chaucer pointed out, comes to the aid of the man, who
is unscrupulous in his efforts to overcome a woman, and this not
merely by virtue of its aphrodisiacal effects, and the apparently
special influence which it seems to exert on women, but also
because it lulls the mental and emotional characteristics which
are the guardians of personality. A correspondent who has
questioned on this point a number of prostitutes he has known,
writes: "Their accounts of the first fall were nearly always the
same. They got to know a 'gentleman,' and on one occasion they
drank too much; before they quite realized what was happening
they were no longer virgins.
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