[19] This, however, is not always or altogether true of experienced women. Thus, the Russian correspondent already referred to, who as a youth was accustomed, partly out of shyness, to feign complete ignorance of sexual matters, informs me that it repeatedly happened to him at this time that young married women took pleasure in imposing on themselves, not without shyness but with evident pleasure, the task of initiating him, though they always hastened to tell him that it was for his good, to preserve him from bad women and masturbation. Prostitutes, also, often take pleasure in innocent men, and Hans Ostwald tells (_Sexual-Probleme_, June, 1908, p. 357) of a prostitute who fell violently in love with a youth who had never known a woman before; she had never met an innocent man before, and it excited her greatly. And I have been told of an Italian prostitute who spoke of the exciting pleasure which an unspoilt youth gave her by his freshness, _tutta questa freschezza_. [20] _Anatomy of Melancholy_, Part III, Sect. III. Mem. IV. Subs. I. [21] N. Venette, _La Génération de l'Homme_, Part II, Ch. X. [22] _Monsieur Nicolas_, vol. i, p. 94. [23] Kryptadia, vol. ii, p. 26, 31. Ib. vol. iii, p. 162. [24] "Modesty is, at first," said Renouvier, "a fear which we have of displeasing others, and of blushing at our own natural imperfections." (Renouvier and Prat, _La Nouvelle Monadologie_, p. 221.) [25] C. Richet, "Les Causes du Dégoût," _L'Homme et l'Intelligence_, 1884. This eminent physiologist's elaborate study of disgust was not written as a contribution to the psychology of modesty, but it forms an admirable introduction to the investigation of the social factor of modesty. [26] It is interesting to note that where, as among the Eskimo, urine, for instance, is preserved as a highly-valuable commodity, the act of urination, even at table, is not regarded as in the slightest degree disgusting or immodest (Bourke, _Scatologic Rites_, p. 202). [27] Hawkesworth, _An Account of the Voyages_, etc., 1775, vol. ii, p. 52. [28] _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, vol. vi, p. 173. [29] Stevens, "Mittheilungen aus dem Frauenleben der Orang Belendas," _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, Heft 4, p. 167, 1896. Crawley, (_Mystic Rose_, Ch. VIII, p. 439) gives numerous other instances, even in Europe, with, however, special reference to sexual taboo. I may remark that English people of lower class, especially women, are often modest about eating in the presence of people of higher class. This feeling is, no doubt, due, in part, to the consciousness of defective etiquette, but that very consciousness is, in part, a development of the fear of causing disgust, which is a component of modesty.