words, I know this to be true. Let me give you two reasons why it is so.
In the first place I do not believe that any woman can or does waltz
without being improperly aroused, to a greater or less degree. She may
not, at first, understand her feelings, or recognize as harmful or
sinful those emotions which must come to every woman who has a particle
of warmth in her nature, when in such close connection with the opposite
sex; but she is, though unconsciously, none the less surely sowing seed
which will one day ripen, if not into open sin and shame, into a nature
more or less depraved and health more or less impaired. And any woman
with a nature so cold as not to be aroused by the perfect execution of
the waltz, is entirely unfit to make any man happy as his wife, and if
she be willing to indulge in such pleasures with every ball-room
libertine, she is not the woman any man wants for a wife. It is a
noticeable fact that a man who knows the ways of a ball-room rarely
seeks a wife there. When he wishes to marry he chooses for a wife a
woman who has not been fondled and embraced by every dancing man in
town.

It is also noticeable that after marriage few men care to dance, or to
have their wives dance.

The second reason why so many dancing girls are ruined is obvious, when
one considers how many fiends there are hanging about the dancing
schools and ball-rooms, for this purpose alone, some of them for their
own gratification, and others for the living there is to be made from
it. I am personally acquainted with men who are professional seducers,
and who are to-day making a living in just this way. They are fine
looking, good conversationalists and elegant dancers. They buy their
admittance to the select (?) dancing school by paying an extra fee, and
know just what snares to lay and what arts to practice upon the innocent