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The experiences of Commenge in Paris are instructive on this point. "For many young girls," he writes, "modesty has no existence, they experience no emotion in showing themselves completely undressed, they abandon themselves to any chance individual whom they will never see again.
A girl of fifteen, mentioned by Commenge, living with her parents who supplied all her wants, lost her virginity by casually meeting a man who offered her two francs if she would go with him; she did so without demur and soon begun to accost men on her own account.
He remarks, however, that the servant prostitute is, on the whole, not so much immoral as non-moral. Among clandestine prostitutes at Paris, Commenge has more recently found that former servants constitute forty per cent. In Germany and Austria it has long been recognized that domestic service furnishes the chief number of recruits to prostitution.
In Paris, Raciborski had stated at a much earlier period that "among prostitutes one finds very few who are prompted to libertinage by sexual ardor." Commenge, again, a careful student of the Parisian prostitute, cannot admit that sexual desire is to be classed among the serious causes of prostitution.
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