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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: which arises from the fact that while the self-indulgent and selfish freely
marry and produce large families, the restrained and conscientious are
often unable to do so, would be removed. For the first time in the history
of the modern world, prostitution, using that term in its broadest sense to
cover all forced sexual relationships based, not on the spontaneous
affection of the woman for the man, but on the necessitous acceptance by
woman of material good in exchange for the exercise of her sexual
functions, would be extinct; and the relation between men and women become
a co-partnership between freemen.
So far from the economic freedom and social independence of the woman
exterminating sexual love between man and woman, it would for the first
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