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THE League of Nations Committee for the Suppression of Traffic in Women and Children recently proved by investigation that there is a connexion between licensed houses of prostitution and traffic in women. The League, therefore, sought information from many Governments and voluntary associations respecting the early lives of women who afterwards became prostitutes, and has issued an analysis of this information, with comments, in a report recently issued ("Prostitutes: their Early Lives". Geneva, 1938. London: Allen and Unwin. 3s.). Some 60 per cent of the women were considered to be below normal in intelligence. Poverty and destitution, early seduction, and the desire for an easy life seem to be the main causes responsible for women adopting this kind of life.
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Traffic in Women and Children. Nature 142, 949 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142949d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142949d0