The woman in contemporary society is the victim destined to caprice, to the passions, to the twists, to the tyranny of men. Nothing is more unjust than the artificially established equality between man and woman. It begins with giving her a very limited education; continues with domestic life, where the woman is destined to serve the man; then on the social scale, woman is considered inferior to man, unworthy of anything at all; this is all to keep the woman in a state of economic and moral dependence upon man. Imperfect (and worse) education, differences in work, more or less degrading than what he is destined for, that the most miserable salary, and the prostitution that awaits her when she finds no one to watch over her existence.

There exists no more tragic situation than that of a poor girl; the occupations she finds are few, and many times they lead to her perdition. But this is not all – to cure her physical existence, to love and be loved, to find a confidante, to enjoy the delights of life she accepts the hand of the first suitor; but simple, naïve, loyal, she devotes her entire life to his happiness. Yet she finds nothing but deceit, selfishness, perfidy, abuse of her slightest weakness; man has nothing but irony and contempt. And the woman, torn by the need to love and having lowered her dignity, out of an instinct for self-preservation, then becomes distrustful, cunning, hypocritical, closed-off, and deceitful. Her innocence has disappeared, every moral feeling lost; driven out by all the blame society heaps on her; she finds nobody who can bring her relief from her pains, thus, in this miserable situation, there is nothing left but sex work.

How many have there been who, having fought until the end, took their own lives?

Many others have been forced by the current conditions to withdraw from social life. Abandoned by their parents who, in agreement with society at large, judge them guilty.

And faced with this spectacle, you bourgeoisie attribute sex work, the origin of vice and corruption, to a certain number of individuals from both sexes; and affirm that if these people had not been born, sex work would not exist.

There are a number of individuals who live off of sex work, using any means to drag their victim into the abyss; sex work having become a form of [economic] speculation like any other. Out of all the industries, this is the most abject, the most lucrative.

There are places specifically dedicated to prostitution, where a shameful girl or woman leaves her address ready for the call of any customer… an army of brokers and commissioners are employed in this ignominious industry, bringing with them the desperation and pain of so many families by prostituting their daughters.

That’s right, bourgeois Gentlemen! It is not vice or corruption that is the origin of prostitution, but rather your infamous regime and your iniquities. You bourgeoisie are the cause! By keeping women in ignorance and believing they are weak, by dictating laws harmful to women, by making the unaware populace believe that the female sex is inferior to the male, you have consequently educated them according to your will and convenience.

Bah! Is this what civilization is, bourgeoisie? Bah! This is progress? Lies! This isn’t progress, but rather a barbaric and regressed time.

Oh, women of the populace! Don’t you see what muck the bourgeoisie has tossed you into? If you have any self-awareness, rebel against these parasites of today's society and show humanity that you are strong and not weak as your enemies would have you believe.

Fight together with those desired by fortune, with the conscious workers, because these are your true friends, because one day not far off you will be able to throw off this yoke that you have endured for so many centuries, due to your ignorance and to the religious ideas instilled in you by the masters of your conscience, the cause of your perdition.

When you have rebelled against this hypocritical institution, then you will be anarchists, and you will understand that Anarchy is your salvation, and you will fight with us so that the day of redemption will come soon and the flag of the future will shine on all humanity standing in unity upon the barricade of the social revolution...

Only then will your slavery be over, and you will shout with all the strength of your being:

Long live our Emancipation!
Long live the free Union!
Long live Anarchy!