Is it not laughable to hear of a _modest_ woman sending for _a man_ to inform her _whether or not she is with child_, and _how far gone_?—Heavens! _a little patience_ would soon have cleared up that matter, and the most skilful man may be mistaken, _even allowing the supposition_ (which is _NOT probable_) THAT HE MAY BE QUITE COOL, and _experience NO FLUTTERING sensations to confuse his mind during THE SERIOUS investigation_. Why cannot the lady _allow a few months_ to elapse? Her doubts would then have been removed, without any _male_ intrusions, _without SCANDALOUS VIOLATIONS of MODESTY_—without, what I term, SHAMEFUL POLLUTIONS OF HER PERSON. What must Men-midwives think of those ladies, who send for them to be inspected on such trifling occasions? _What can they avoid thinking?_ Must they not conclude, that those ladies are restrained from adultery _NOT by any principle_ of virtue, but by a dread of the consequences; and, since they can admit no man to familiarities but their Man-midwife (who is the _priviledged father confessor of England_) without losing their reputations, they are resolved to be _as immodest_, without losing their characters, as the depraved, profligate custom of the world can authorize them? Men-midwives entertain each other with curious recitals of their adventures among the fair:—Surely those women cannot justly be pitied, who thus by their folly, or vice, furnish subjects _first_ for their sensual _ideas_, and _afterwards_ for their mirth. I have been a good deal amused by hearing my letter commented on in different companies, where the author was far from being suspected to be present. The Men-midwives, and the ladies who receive pleasure from employing them, never can forgive me for having exposed their conduct. All they can however say against me, is, that I am “_very indelicate_;”—that “_it is a shame such papers should appear_.”—Let them be informed, Mr. Printer, that IF I AM “INDELICATE,” it is _because THEY ARE IMMODEST_. Where _the bone_ is _corrupted_, the flesh must be removed, and _the foul parts laid bare_, in order to be _scraped_, and _purified_—_desperate disorders require desperate remedies_. _The “shame” does not consist IN WHAT I WRITE but IN WHAT THEY DO_.—_Let them QUIT THEIR PRACTICE, I will most readily throw aside my pen._